Energy-efficient hot filling system for beverages
Optimize your beverage filling processes with a system that ensures precise heating, cooling, and pasteurization, substantially reducing energy costs while maintaining product quality.

The Innopro HF Pasteurization and Heating System from KHS Group offers a robust solution for efficiently heating, cooling, and pasteurizing various beverages and liquid foods. Utilizing tubular and plate heat exchangers, it adeptly manages low- and high-viscosity products, handling up to 45,000 liters per hour. Designed for continuous, high-speed operations, it serves beverage manufacturers, food producers, and the dairy industry, facilitating processes from juice deaeration to lactose-free milk treatment. The system features warm product deaeration with flavor recovery, significantly reducing residual oxygen content. With energy-efficient heat recovery technology, it integrates seamlessly into your energy management system, allowing energy savings of up to 50%. Automation is supported by a PLC control system, ensuring precision. The unit is constructed from corrosion-resistant materials, maintaining product quality and durability. With optional configurations and engineering support, this equipment meets diverse production needs while optimizing resource use.
Benefits
- Enhances energy efficiency, achieving up to 50% heat recovery.
- Optimizes product quality with reduced residual oxygen levels.
- Accommodates a wide range of product viscosities for versatile application.
- Minimizes operational costs with high throughput capacity.
- Seamlessly integrates into existing production lines for streamlined processing.
- Applications
- Food,Beverages,Liquid food,Wine,Milk,Nonfood,Iced tea,Spirits,Still water,Homecare products,Juice,Soft drinks,Beer,Sparkling wine
- End products
- Fruit juice concentrates,Sauces,Sparkling rosé wine,Liquid detergents,Green tea iced tea,Red wine,Vodka,Lactose-free milk,Cleaning solutions,Carbonated soft drinks,Filtered water,Flavored water
- Steps before
- Purification,Grinding,Blending,Ingredient Mixing,Heating Preparation
- Steps after
- Cooling,Filling,Packing,Pasteurization,Labeling
- Input ingredients
- non-carbonated beverages,low-viscosity beverages,high-viscosity products,products with high fiber content,products with high pulp content
- Output ingredients
- hot-filled beverages,pasteurized products,low residual oxygen beverages,energy-efficient filled products
- Capacity
- Up to 45,000 liters/hour
- Throughput capacity
- Up to 45,000 liters/hour
- Operating Costs
- Extremely low
- Energy Savings
- Up to 50%
- Heat Recovery
- Maximum
- Automation
- Process automation available
- Residual Oxygen Content Reduction
- Impressively low
- Product Temperature Control
- Specific to product
- Working mechanism
- Innopro HF Pasteurization and Heating System
- Integrated steps
- Heating,Cooling,Deaeration
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Energy efficiency
- Energy savings up to 50%
- Automation level
- PLC-controlled
- CIP/SIP
- CIP compatible
- Cooling system
- Recirculating chiller
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Container type
- PET / Glass
- Container size
- Varied
- Machine Sections
- Heater,trim cooler,recirculating chiller
- Heat Exchangers
- Plate or tubular
- Warm Product Deaeration
- Optional with flavor recovery
- Control panel type
- PLC / HMI interface
- Integration possibilities
- Process automation / data interface
- System planning
- Turnkey solutions
- Heating system options
- Plate / Tubular heat exchangers
- Syrup room integration
- Yes
- Packaging line integration
- Turnkey integration
- Energy management integration
- Yes
- Flavor recovery system
- Optional
- Market info
- KHS is known for manufacturing innovative filling and packaging systems for the beverage, food, and non-food industries, renowned for their engineering expertise, high-quality standards, and sustainable solutions in ensuring efficient production processes.