Tea Flake Ice Machine (3–4 mm Thin Ice Flakes)

Key Features and Technical Functions

1.Rapid Tea Liquid Freezing

Designed to rapidly freeze tea liquid into thin ice flakes with a typical thickness of 3–4 mm. The thin-layer freezing approach helps improve heat transfer and provides suitable frozen materials for subsequent vacuum freeze-drying.

2.Uniform Ice Flake Thickness

Maintains consistent ice flake dimensions to help reduce variations in freezing conditions and support more uniform downstream freeze-drying. Standardized ice thickness also provides a better basis for optimizing freeze-drying cycle parameters.

3.Food-Grade Stainless Steel Construction

Uses food-grade stainless steel for product-contact components, supporting hygienic tea liquid processing and facilitating equipment cleaning and maintenance. Actual material specifications depend on equipment configuration.

4.Convenient Ice Collection and Conveying

Designed for convenient collection and transfer of generated ice flakes. Can be integrated with conveying systems and tunnel freezers to establish a continuous or semi-automated pre-freezing workflow.

5.Energy-Efficient Refrigeration System

Equipped with a refrigeration system designed for stable cooling performance and efficient freezing operation. Refrigeration configuration can be selected according to processing capacity, tea liquid characteristics, and production requirements.

6.Flexible Production Line Integration

Can be integrated with tea extraction, filtration, concentration, ice collection, conveying, tunnel freezing, and industrial vacuum freeze-drying equipment to form an integrated tea liquid pre-freezing and freeze-drying production system.

Applications in Freeze-Dried Tea and Beverage Production

The Tea Flake Ice Machine plays an important role in the pre-freezing stage of freeze-dried tea manufacturing.

• Freeze-Dried Tea Granule Production: Converts prepared tea liquid into uniform 3–4 mm ice flakes, providing frozen materials for subsequent crushing, vacuum freeze-drying, and granulation processes.
• Instant Tea Powder Manufacturing: Supports the pre-freezing of concentrated tea extracts before vacuum freeze-drying, helping establish consistent freezing conditions for the production of soluble tea powder.
• Freeze-Dried Tea Extract Processing: Provides a standardized freezing method for concentrated tea liquids and extracts, supporting controlled sublimation and moisture removal during subsequent drying.
• Functional Tea Beverage Ingredient Production: Suitable for pre-freezing prepared tea-based liquid formulations used in functional beverage powders and specialty tea ingredients.
• Pilot-Scale and Industrial Production: Suitable for tea liquid freezing trials, process development, pilot production, and large-scale freeze-dried tea manufacturing.
• OEM/ODM Tea Processing: Supports different tea formulations and production requirements, helping manufacturers establish repeatable pre-freezing procedures for customized freeze-dried products.

Importance of Thin-Flake Pre-Freezing in Vacuum Freeze-Drying

Pre-freezing is a critical stage in freeze-dried tea production. The physical characteristics of frozen materials influence heat transfer, ice sublimation, and the overall drying process.

The Tea Flake Ice Machine converts tea liquid into relatively thin ice flakes, creating a more standardized frozen material for subsequent processing.

Its main contributions to freeze-dried tea manufacturing include:

• Improved Freezing Uniformity: Relatively consistent ice flake thickness helps reduce differences in freezing conditions across the material.
• More Favorable Heat Transfer: Thin frozen layers provide shorter heat transfer distances compared with thick frozen blocks, supporting more consistent freezing and subsequent drying conditions.
• Improved Sublimation Conditions: Standardized frozen material dimensions help establish more consistent conditions for ice sublimation during primary drying.
• Better Finished-Product Consistency: More uniform pre-freezing conditions provide a better foundation for producing freeze-dried tea granules and powders with consistent physical characteristics.
• Freeze-Drying Process Optimization: Standardized ice flakes help manufacturers optimize tray loading, drying parameters, and overall production procedures.

The actual freeze-drying time and energy consumption depend on tea liquid concentration, initial temperature, ice flake loading, equipment capacity, vacuum conditions, and the selected freeze-drying cycle.

Position in the Freeze-Dried Tea Production Line

The Tea Flake Ice Machine is installed in the upstream pre-freezing section, between tea liquid preparation and the main vacuum freeze-drying process.

Typical Freeze-Dried Tea Manufacturing Process:

Tea Raw Material Preparation → Tea Extraction → Filtration → Concentration → Tea Liquid Flake Ice Making (3–4 mm) → Ice Collection and Conveying → Further Freezing or Temperature Conditioning (if required) → Vacuum Freeze-Drying → Crushing or Granulation → Sieving → Nitrogen Flushing Packaging → Finished Product Packaging

Depending on the production line design, the ice flakes may be transferred directly to the next freezing or freeze-drying stage, or undergo additional freezing and temperature conditioning to meet the required process conditions.

In this production system, the Tea Flake Ice Machine is responsible for converting tea liquid into standardized frozen flakes, while the industrial vacuum freeze dryer performs the core dehydration process through ice sublimation under vacuum conditions.

Coordinating flake thickness, freezing temperature, material loading, and freeze-drying parameters helps manufacturers establish a more standardized and controllable tea freeze-drying process.

Industrial Applications and Target Customers

The SIENO Tea Flake Ice Machine is suitable for:

• Freeze-dried tea manufacturers
• Instant tea powder production facilities
• Tea extract processing plants
• Functional tea beverage ingredient manufacturers
• Freeze-dried tea granule producers
• Food and beverage OEM/ODM manufacturers
• Tea processing companies developing new freeze-dried products
• Industrial food factories establishing or upgrading freeze-dried beverage production lines

SIENO Integrated Freeze-Dried Tea Production Solutions

SIENO specializes in industrial vacuum freeze-drying equipment and integrated freeze-dried food and beverage processing solutions.

For tea and beverage manufacturers, SIENO can provide equipment selection and production line integration solutions covering tea extraction, filtration, concentration, thin-flake ice making, pre-freezing, vacuum freeze-drying, crushing, granulation, and finished-product packaging.

The Tea Flake Ice Machine serves as an important upstream pre-freezing unit, converting prepared tea liquid into uniform frozen flakes. SIENO industrial vacuum freeze dryers then perform the core dehydration process through vacuum sublimation, helping produce lightweight, porous, and readily soluble freeze-dried tea products.

By integrating tea liquid preparation, controlled pre-freezing, industrial vacuum freeze-drying, and post-drying processing, SIENO helps manufacturers develop customized production lines for freeze-dried tea granules, instant tea powders, tea extracts, and functional tea beverage ingredients.

Production line configurations can be tailored according to tea formulations, liquid concentration, processing capacity, required product specifications, and target production output.

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