Tornado breaks into food processing sector
products into tiny bits has been transformed for use in processing
food products.
The technology could help food processors become more efficient in crushing and grinding up ingredients for their products, including wheat and other grains.
New Jersey-based GreenShift Corp. said a prototype of its Tornado Generator is being evaluated as a means of processing food by a US multi-national company.
GreenShift did not name the company. The generator works by accelerating compressed air to supersonic speeds in a closed cyclonic chamber. The rush of air is powerful enough to grind, flashdesiccate and atomize solids and liquids into micron sized powders.
The Tornado has no internal moving parts and is powered by compressed air. It is currently used to process a broad array of agricultural, septic, municipal and industrial wastes.
Kevin Kreisler, GreenShift's chairman and chief executive officer, said the company believes that the Tornado marks the efficient use natural resources directly in production processes.
"We believe that most industrial processes that involve some form of grinding, pulverizing, mixing, or drying can be improved upon with implementation of this technology," hestated. "Agriproducts in particular represents a compelling area for improvement in this regard and can be a relatively rapid path to cash flows."
The early-stage prototypes of one GreenShift's Tornados were initially developed to grind wheat and to improve the processing of poultry wastes.
GreenShift was set up to invest in environmentally friendly technologies.
