Technology separates water from honey

Many honey shipments to foreign countries are returned due to products containing 24% - 30% of water, not guaranteed quality.

The difficulty of the above has recently been solved by the water separator machine developed by engineer Huynh Tien Trung, Sub-Institute of Agricultural Electrical Engineering and post-harvest technology.

Simple operation

According to engineer Trung, the first advantage is that the price of the machine he built is only 1/3 of the foreign import. Compact, easy to use, it does not require workers to have a high technical level.

Central Import Enterprise II used to import a tower dryer system of New Zealand with the same function of Trung's engineer for 1.5 billion dong, or Buon Me Thuat honey joint stock company also bought one The price is quite high, about VND 800 million; Hung Thinh private enterprise is 750 million dong .

Water separator from honey of engineer Huynh Tien Trung.

However, the above machines all have the common disadvantage of reducing the quality of bile after splitting water. The treated honey is discolored, there are many air bubbles in the finished product, not to mention bulky machines, making it difficult to clean the inside to ensure food hygiene and safety.

The machine manufactured by Mr. Trung includes cooling system, vacuum pump and processing bins.

The honey is heated 40 degrees C and sprayed into a vacuum barrel. Under this condition, water will evaporate from the bile. 'Lowering the boiling temperature of honey by low pressure is the principle that reduces the amount of water in my honey', the Chinese engineer 'revealed'.

No loss of honey quality

Mr. Trung explained more about this because of the bile after harvest, if it is not well treated, only 2 to 3 months of honey will be fermented.

That's because fructo is decomposed, producing hydroxymetyfurfural (HMF), causing abdominal pain, poisoning to users.

The advantage of Trung's water separator is to create the process of separating water in full-secret bile, the honey is treated in a vacuum, so there is no contact with the air, minimizing the fermentation process. sour.

In addition, because the bile is sprayed into the vacuum environment and falls into the container, not through the filter net like other machines, so the finished product does not have any residual air bubbles, cannot generate organic molds, no sour fermentation during storage and storage.

Bile is heated at low temperature, so after separating the color of the bile as well as the taste, the transparency of the bile remains the same as when it was harvested.

Mr. Huynh Cong Nhanh, Director of Huong Rung Trading - Investment - Export Co., Ltd. assessed: "Honey products through Trung's engineers will meet the European and American standards with the above and below content. water below 17% ".

At the end of 2008, Huong Rung company installed a system to reduce the rate of water in honey of Trung engineers. Soon the company's products were signed to export contracts to the United States of 400 tons for $ 21.00 / ton.

Mr. Nguyen Duy Duc, Director of the Institute of Agricultural Electrical Engineering and post-harvest technology said that the machine can be used for all types of honey and the Institute is planning to transfer this system to a number of real estate companies. honey production in the country.

Deputy Director of the Institute of Agricultural and Electro-Mechanical Engineering and post-harvest technology Pham Van Tan commented, the vacuum method combined with the cooling platform to heat honey at low temperature is a great success of the system of water separators This secret.