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Dan O’Shea is a consultant for Caloris in the area of membrane filtration. If you are attending the Wisconsin Cheese Industry Conference this week in Madison, you’ll find Dan at Caloris’ booth (1002). Caloris: How did you get involved in this field? Dan: I first started in the dairy industry in 1975 with selling form, fill and seal milk carton machines for Hercules at a manufacturing facility in St. Paul, Minn, a couple years after graduating from the University of Minnesota. Caloris: What do you enjoy most about working with customers?   Dan: I enjoy helping them improve their operations and/or increase their sales thru development of new products. I also like providing a service and developing long term relationships. Caloris: What do you like most about living/working in Minnesota? Dan: I was born in Minnesota. In the central USA you can get anywhere because of the major international airport. And it’s close to the Midwest dairy market. But the winters are not for the weak. Caloris: What are your hobbies? Anything else fun you’d like to share?   Dan: I like attending sporting events –Vikings, Twins and Gophers. And I enjoy being outside and hiking with my friend Gary Maxson. Caloris: What’s your favorite cheese?   Dan: Swiss Caloris: What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?   Dan: Vanilla – I know boring. Caloris: Anything else you’d like to share about yourself?  Dan: I have a close family with three sons, two living in Minneapolis and one in Florida (of course I really like the son in Florida come December thru April).  I like international travel and have been all over the world and really like my visits to China – a fascinating culture and country. Be on the lookout for Dan, Gary, Todd Juntunen and Jim Peterson this week in Madison! To get in touch with Dan any other time of year, send us an email or call 410-822-6900.

How well do you know your evaporator? Food processing benefits from evaporation in many ways, but it’s important to have the right style of evaporator for your plant and to keep it running efficiently for the best results. Whether processing dairy, juice, tea, coffee or another food product, Caloris has many options to fit your production needs. CALORIS FLEXMODE® Evaporator: Food processing benefits from tailored design options that provide the best solutions for varying plant needs. The CALORIS FLEXMODE® is a steam-heated evaporator with a unique modular design. It can be configured for many different product requirements, capacities, steam efficiencies and costs. In fact, FlexMode systems—while intelligently pre-engineered—are specifically designed to be easily customized. A popular choice for dairy, juice and sweetener processors. CALORIS CONCENTRIX® MVR: Maybe steam isn’t an option in your situation. The Concentrix MVR is a high-efficiency falling film evaporator system using proprietary turbofan technology for heating by Mechanical Vapor Recompression (MVR), driving the evaporation process with electrical power. Falling film evaporation technology means that only a small quantity of product is held inside the Concentrix at any given moment, minimizing the time required for system start-up, rinse-out, CIP and shutdown. Used by processors both on the product and the wastewater processing side. CALORIS DFC® Evaporator: Food processing benefits from efficiency across the production line and the CALORIS DFC® can help your spray dryer perform better. Installing a CALORIS DFC® in front of your spray dryer increases feed solids to the dryer, and maintains solids at desired maximum level for a full production day, maximizing your dryer’s powder production capacity. Caloris Custom Evaporators: Extra-large production capacity, product specific designs, a single-pass product flow through the evaporator system, various compressor back-up options, or integration of regenerative heat concepts with other process equipment outside the core evaporator system—these are a few of the challenges Caloris custom evaporators help customers meet. Keep It Going Our engineers work with your company to troubleshoot existing process systems and equipment, propose solutions and work with your staff on implementation. Whether you need to improve the performance of an existing system or create a full new installation, no one provides evaporation systems consulting with greater expertise. How Can We Help You? What food processing challenges do you have? Send an email to problem.solved@caloris.com or call us 410-822-6900 to speak with an application engineer.

Caloris will be co-hosting a Spray Drying course on June 13 in Minneapolis. The primary host and training leader is NIZO, the Food and Dairy Research Institute from the Netherlands. Efficient operation of spray dryer processes is a challenging subject with many different aspects. It requires both theoretical understanding of heat and mass transfer during drying and the product physical properties. In this 1-day seminar, you will be taken from the basics to the practical side of spray drying, thus giving a complete view of the different elements involved with spray drying operations. This class is intended for professionals responsible for the operation, design and optimization of spray drying processes in the food industry. The course is targeted to experienced professionals and industry decision-makers for spray drying operations. In addition to a review of Spray Drying Basics, we’ll be covering topics like Understanding Psychrometrics as it relates to Spray Dryer Optimization, Spray Dryer Safety, review of some Optimization Case Studies, as well as an interactive computer modelling session. See the brochure below, download the full PDF or follow this link for more information and registration details.