The Application of Heat Pipes for Fruit Juice Pasteurizing Machine

This research was aim to apply heat pipe in the small pasteurizing machine for fruit juice process. The orange juice was used as the sample. The container of the pasteurizing machine was made from 304 stainless steel with 1.5 millimeter of thickness, 300 millimeter of inside diameter, and 374 millimeter high, with 20 liters capacity. In order to control the temperature distribution in the test tank, four heat pipes, that made from same material, were used as heating device that heated from LPG gas. The heat pipe had 0.8 millimeters of thickness, 25millimeter of internal diameter, and the length of 650 millimeters. The result was found that the pasteurizing machine can be pasteurized the orange juice as 88 degree celsius with 32.5 minutes of come up time. The temperature distribution of the orange juice in the tank was +/- 0.5 degree celsius.