Recipe for success

Abstract

Makers of food and drink like to have consistency in their products. For a consistent taste or texture to be achieved, the concentrations of a product's constituent components have to be kept constant so that the proportions in the final mixture are exactly correct. This is relatively straightforward to achieve using volumetric, gravimetric or simple mass flow measurements if the individual components have stable concentrations. However, nature does not always play ball and often the concentrations of the individual components themselves vary. These variations must be detected and volume adjustments performed as early as possible in the mixing process in order to avoid subsequent analyses, calculations and corrections. ABB's mass flowmeters Coriolis-Master FCB/FCH 150 and FCB/FCH 450 supply accurate density measurements that make them ideal for dosing tasks of this kind.