Vegetable Processing Plant Machinery

Tomatoes are continuously unloaded into tomato unloading and washing unit. Then tomato will be sent to washing unit where the washing takes place by means of water jet and air jet. The manual washing operation can also be takes place for small scale processing by using concrete washing tank. Washed tomatoes are then transferred to sorting table where the tomatoes (damaged rotten) that will be not accepted in the line and will be removed manually in the sorting table.
The washed and graded tomatoes are then transferred to fruit crusher where tomatoes will be crushed to form the slurry. This slurry is directly put into the "hot cold break system" where it is heated to 65-700c or 950c in hot break system for the enzymatic inactivation. After this operation the slurry is transferred to pulper through suitable pump for separating the pulp and waste. The separated tomato seeds, skin and waste material is collected in a hopper and discharged through screw conveyor. Pulp obtained is called "puree".
The refined tomato juice from pulper cum finisher is then fed to the double effect vacuum evaporator to be concentrated by boiling at low temperature under vacuum to preserve the organoleptic characteristics of the tomato. For batch type small scale processing this refined juice is fed to double jacketed steam kettle.
Final concentrated tomato puree at 14 brix tomato paste at 30 brix coming out from evaporator kettle would be further used for pasteurization in tubular pasteurizer and cooling at 45-500c for filling in drums.