Food cooking. Perfect for your product and process.
Cooking kettles come in various sizes and can be used in a wide range of industries. Gpi Process Equipment is a manufacturer of stainless steel cooking kettles designed to fit your products and processes. Our cooking kettles start as small as 50 liter but can go up to 12.5m³.
For processes such as cooking and pasteurization, efficient heating of the tank is crucial and can be done various ways. Ensure the correct combination of heating capabilities and insulation of the tank in order to heat or cool your product within the desired time frame. Let us know directly what heating capacity you require, and we will collaborate with you in order to arrive at the most efficient solution, whether this concerns a dimple, a double wall or a half pipe.
Options and applications
We understand that every application is different. Therefor our cooking kettles are configurable that way it will fit your product and process perfectly. Of course is a fully custom-made cooker also a possibility.
| CK250 | CK500 | CK1000 | CK1500 | CK2000 | CK3000 | |
| Working volume (L) | 250 | 500 | 1000 | 1500 | 2000 | 3000 |
| Cylindrical height (mm) | 600 | 800 | 1000 | 1200 | 1300 | 1500 |
| Diameter (mm) | 750 | 950 | 1200 | 1300 | 1400 | 1600 |
| Working height | 1450 | 1650 | 1850 | 2050 | 2150 | 2350 |
| Total height (incl. drive) | 2100 | 2400 | 2600 | 2800 | 2900 | 3100 |
| Outlet height | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 |
| Heat transfer surface (m²) | 1,4 | 2,3 | 3,7 | 5,1 | 6,2 | 7,3 |
| Power drive (kW) | 1,1 | 1,5 | 2,2 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Cooking time at 3barg (average min.) | 25 | 31 | 39 | 43 | 47 | 60 |
| Maximum steam pressure (barg) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Steam consumption (kg/hr) | 90 | 150 | 230 | 320 | 390 | 450 |
- Tiltable
- Integrated control panel
- Agitators (see tab agitators)
- Heated (Dimple, Halfpipe)
- Loadcells
- Level Switches
- Cleaning connections
- Skid mounted
- Several finishing levels
- Several materials (304, 316L, Duplex)
- Gate agitator
- Anchor agitator
- Scraping agitator
- Propeller agitator
- Bottom driven agitator
- Dispersing disk
- Rotor/stator
- Screw agitator
- Combination of agitators
- High shear mixer
- Turbo mixer
- Side entry agitator
- Static mixer
- External homogenizer
Soups and sauces | Fruit | Food | ||
| Tomato sauces | Fruitfilling | Mashed potato | ||
| Sauces | Piefilling | Mechanically deboned meat | ||
| Dressings | Fruitpuree | Ready-to-eat fillings | ||
| Salsa | Jam | Egg | ||
| Hummus | Marmelade | Jelly | ||
| Soup | Fruitsauce | Peanut butter | ||
| Starch slurry | Applepulp | Pharma | ||
| Spreads | Dairy | Lotions | ||
Confectionary | Milkconcentrate | Creams | ||
| Fat cream | Cheese sauce | Wax | ||
| Chocolate | Yoghurt | Toothpaste | ||
| Caramel |
Standard cooking kettles or tailor made for your product and process
We understand that every cooking kettle is different. Therefor we design our kettles tailormade for you, so you can be sure that the tank will suit to your product and process best. Options we can include into your tank are:
- Tiltable
- Fully integrated control panel
- Agitators
- Loadcells
- Level switches
- Cleaning options
- Skid mounted
Agitator design and fabrication
In addition to tanks, Gpi De Gouwe also makes its own agitators. This way you have one point of contact for the entire tank concept. Agitators that we design and produce are:
- Anchor agitator
- Gate agitator
- Combination of agitators
- High shear mixers
- Turbo mixers
- Side entry agitators
- Static mixers
- External homogenizer
Finishing levels
As a standard, Gpi ensures a high-finishing level. For some applications, such as in the food industry or even in the pharmaceutical industry, specific requirements are applicable. As a standard, food tanks are produced with an internal roughness of Ra 0.8, but if desired we can also produce tanks with much smoother (and therefore more hygienic) inner walls.
