Patent classifications
A23B2/08
RF Inline Heating
A radiofrequency treatment system includes a first RF heating channel part upstream of a first cooling channel part, that is upstream of a second RF heating channel part. The radiofrequency treatment system provides radiofrequency waves to the flowable food product in the RF heating channel parts and cools the flowable food product in the cooling channel part, according to a temperature distribution. A temperature of the flowable food product in a cooling channel part downstream of a RF heating channel part is lower than the temperature of the flowable food product in the RF heating channel part upstream of that cooling channel part. Also, a temperature of the flowable food product in a RF heating channel part downstream of a set of a RF heating channel part and a cooling channel part is higher than of the flowable food product in the RF heating channel part of that set.