Heavy duty soak tanks for dry bean processing
Optimize your pre-processing with heavy duty soak tanks designed to ensure uniform hydration and ease of cleaning, perfect for enhancing the quality and efficiency of your bean and vegetable preparation.
Lyco Manufacturing’s Heavy Duty Soak Tanks are engineered to optimize the soaking and hydrating processes in food and agricultural production. These tanks feature a precise diameter and height that ensure the ideal water-to-bean ratio, crucial for uniform soaking. Applicable to dry beans, vegetables, meat, poultry, seafood, plant-based proteins, and pet food industries, these tanks streamline pre-processing operations to enhance efficiency.
Designed for robust continuous operation, these tanks offer self-draining capabilities with integrated flushing nozzles, simplifying cleaning and reducing maintenance downtime. They accommodate various end-products such as kidney bean canned soup, garbanzo bean hummus, and tofu blocks. Their construction utilizes materials resistant to corrosion, ensuring longevity and sanitary processing conditions.
Lyco’s equipment seamlessly integrates into existing production lines, providing solutions that are customizable based on throughput requirements, processing up to several tons of solids efficiently. The soak tanks are essential for companies seeking to automate and improve their hydration and cleaning processes in a streamlined, reliable manner.
Benefits
- Enhances processing efficiency with uniform bean hydration for consistent product quality.
- Reduces maintenance with self-draining design and integrated flushing nozzles.
- Optimizes production line integration with customizable configuration based on capacity needs.
- Minimizes labor costs by streamlining the soaking and cleaning processes.
- Ensures longevity and hygiene due to corrosion-resistant material construction.
- Applications
- Meat/poultry/seafood,Pet food,Plant-based proteins,Vegetables,Dry beans
- End products
- Frozen vegetable stir fry,Wet canned cat food,Canned mixed vegetables,Tofu blocks,Dry kibble dog food,Kidney bean canned soup,Frozen fish fillets,Chicken breast pre-cooked packages,Black bean salad,Vegan sausages,Navy bean casserole,Lima bean side dish,Garbanzo bean hummus
- Steps before
- Sorting,Inspection,Washing
- Steps after
- Blanching,Packaging,Distribution
- Input ingredients
- large kidney beans,great northern beans,baby red beans,black eyed peas,navy beans,lima beans,black beans,pinto beans,garbanzo beans
- Output ingredients
- hydrated large kidney beans,hydrated great northern beans,hydrated baby red beans,hydrated black eyed peas,hydrated navy beans,hydrated lima beans,hydrated black beans,hydrated pinto beans,hydrated garbanzo beans
- Diameter
- 96” and 126”
- Material Compatibility
- Various bean types (Kidney,Great Northern,etc.)
- Automation
- Self-draining with flushing nozzle
- Depth
- Optimized for uniform bean spread
- Capacity
- Accommodates large volumes of beans
- Design
- Trusted,rugged,sanitary
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch
- Automation level
- Manual
- Cleaning method
- Self-draining with flushing nozzle
- Water-to-bean ratio control
- Proper diameter and height
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Container size and shape
- 96” and 126” diameter soak tanks
- Tank diameter
- 96" and 126"
- Tank shape
- Circular
- Feed/discharge method
- Self-draining with flushing nozzle
- Water-to-bean ratio
- Properly balanced
- Bean distribution
- Uniform spread
- Tank diameter
- 96” and 126”
- Self-draining system
- Flushing nozzle
- Design
- Rugged,sanitary
- Market info
- Lyco Manufacturing is known for designing and producing innovative cooking, cooling, and liquid-solid separation equipment, primarily for the food processing industry, with a strong reputation for reliability, efficiency, and cutting-edge solutions.