If your cooking process is still relying on traditional batch cooking methods, it may be time to rethink what’s possible. With a Pick Sanitary Heater...
Pick Heaters will be exhibiting at the upcoming 2025 Equipment, Automation, and Technology Show (EATS) for the Food & Beverage industry! Join us Octo...
In the 1940s while working at Pick Manufacturing, Alan Pick and consultant engineer C.D. Kern developed a concept of direct steam injection water hea...
In the world of food processing, chemical manufacturing, and pulp and paper manufacturing, maintaining precise temperature control is not just a pref...
In the realm of soy-based product manufacturing, the utilization of direct steam contact cookers, also known as jet cookers, has yielded significant ...
The pulp and paper industry plays a crucial role in our daily lives, providing essential products such as paper, packaging materials, and tissue prod...
If you are looking for a simple, cost-effective, and reliable way to cool steam to within 10°F of saturation, you could benefit from Pick Desuperheat...
Pick Steam Injection Heaters are an ideal replacement for tank spargers and other heating methods that may be prone to steam hammer issues. If you ar...
What if your application requires a heater that goes beyond what would be considered a standard offering? What if you need a heater with a larger pip...
Are you in search of a reliable and cost-effective solution for your heat transfer requirements? Look no further than Pick Custom Design (PCD). PCD, ...
Steam injection heaters play a critical role in various industries, providing efficient and reliable heating solutions. To ensure their optimal perfo...
One of the key aspects of the food industry is process heating, which is required for various purposes such as cooking, pasteurization, sterilization...
Steam injection heating has many advantages and applications in the chemical processing industry, where maintaining stable and precise temperature co...
When choosing a Direct Steam Injection Heater, there are a few factors you need to consider, including the type of liquid being heated, how much the ...
Pick Heaters used a unique approach to meet the requirements of a specific customer and in the process hit upon a system design with an unprecedented...
When considering a new process line, production facilities should examine the type of Direct Steam Injection Heater used. Many think of the jet cook...
The challenges of heating fluids and providing a steady hot water supply are important to a wide range of industry types, and there are many solution...
The limits to indirect heat exchange examined in Part 1 become more significant as greater temperature or pressure is required for heat and hot water...
Among the most important aspects of any food, beverage or pharmaceutical processing operation is the ongoing assurance of sanitary equipment. Effecti...
Most brown grease from waste traps has historically ended up as landfill, but recognition of its value for production of fertilizer, biodiesel and ot...
Sanitization is critical to food production. Food production machines need to be sterile, or the food could potentially become contaminated. There ar...
Food production is a process that must be hygienic from start to finish. From the utensils to the equipment to the packaging, everything needs to be ...
The most common method of transferring energy with steam is indirect heat exchange, which has a significant drawback. Due to the pressure drop as the...
Steam still has an important role to play in jacketed heating, but a Direct Steam Injection (DSI) Heater provides the most precise and energy-efficie...
Customers have many choices for heating water, liquids or slurries, but Direct Steam Injection (DSI) Heaters should be at the top of the list of opti...
A Direct Steam Injection System can rapidly and accurately maintain temperatures for processing difficult materials, such as wastewater, and thereby ...
Direct Steam Injection (DSI) Heaters are systems that inject steam directly into a liquid or slurry to heat it up to a desired temperature. DSI heate...
In this last in a series of Pick Blogs covering methods of heating water for plant sanitation, we take a look at direct contact hot water heaters. Th...
Previously, we compared two methods of heating water for plant sanitation, both involving DSI (direct steam injection). While the use of individual s...
An ongoing challenge faced by food industry customers is maintaining a reliable, yet safe plant sanitation system. This means making sure that all ar...
While digging through the Pick factory archives the other day, I came across a 14-page pamphlet titled Industrial Water Heating – Methods and Means. ...
