摘要 |
Continuous process apparatus and method for treating food products with ozone gas, primarily for sterilization. The food products, which may be delicate vegetable products such as potato chips, dehydrated onions and other dehydrated vegetables, are continuously conveyed through a treatment zone filled with ozone, and oxygen that is a by-product of the ozone treatment, and also air unavoidably entering the treatment zone with the food products, are gravity separated from the ozone in a separation zone located above the treatment zone.
|