Food Freeze Dryer
Coffee Freeze-Drying Process with SJ FFD: 3D Process Study
Follow roasted-bean grinding, extraction, vacuum concentration, frozen granulation, tray transfer and SJ FFD drying in a 90-second English process concept.
What this video shows
This original 3D study explains a batch coffee process, not a customer installation or real equipment footage. Concentrate is frozen into slabs, then broken and sieved inside the cold room while frozen. The upper product rack enters the pre-cooled SJ FFD; the separate lower transfer trolley stays outside. Internal refrigerated coils collect sublimated water as ice.
Key facts for equipment selection
- 90 seconds, English captions, independent rendered process concept.
- The depicted concentration step is low-temperature vacuum evaporation; freeze concentration is an alternative, not the depicted machine.
- Frozen slab breaking, granulation and sieving take place before freeze drying.
- No coffee capacity, universal temperature recipe, energy result or certification is established by the animation.
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English on-screen captions
These captions describe the intended workflow in the animation. They are not a verified voice transcript or a validated process recipe; the selection notes above remain applicable.
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- From roasted beans to freeze dried coffee, with S J Scientific.
- First, grind the roasted coffee beans. Controlled roller grinding prepares the coffee for extraction.
- Extract the soluble coffee with water. Filter the liquid to separate insoluble spent grounds before concentration.
- Concentrate the coffee extract under reduced pressure. This animation shows low temperature vacuum evaporation. Freeze concentration is another possible route.
- Fill shallow trays with coffee concentrate. In the cold room, freeze the liquid into solid slabs. Confirm complete freezing before the next step.
- Inside the cold room, feed the frozen coffee slabs into a breaker and granulator. The frozen material breaks into smaller particles.
- Sieve the frozen granules to control particle size and separate fines.
- Spread the granules into shallow trays. Load the trays onto the upper product rack while keeping the coffee frozen.
- Pre-cool the dryer before transferring the frozen rack. Use loading conditions established for this coffee formulation, and minimize transfer time.
- Dock the trolley. Roll only the upper rack inside.
- Close the chamber and begin the vacuum drying cycle. Ice sublimates from the coffee. Water vapor travels to the internal refrigerated coils and collects there as ice.
- After drying, protect the porous coffee granules with moisture barrier packaging.