API Heat Transfer: Sanitary Heat Transfer Solutions

When it comes to food and beverage applications, you need more than equipment — you need a partner who understands:

• Fluid properties

• Fouling tendencies

• Hygienic design requirements

For more than 140 years, API Heat Transfer has delivered world-class sanitary heat transfer systems that optimize performance, safety, and reliability — before, during, and after installation.

Beverage Applications

• Cooling, heating, and short-term heating of:

  • Clear & cloudy fruit juices

  • Vegetable juices, soft drinks, mixed drinks

  • Isotonic & carbonated beverages, syrups

• Cooling & heating of purees

• Hot water boiler & CIP heater

Brewing Applications

• Cooling & heating of wort

• Yeast cooling

• Deep-cooling & pasteurizing of beer

• Condensing of exhaust vapor

• Cooling of condensate

• Hot water boiler, CIP heater, flash cooler

• Evaporation systems for yeast, malt extract, wort

Dairy Applications

• Cooling, heating & pasteurizing of:

  • Milk, yogurt, cream, desserts, ice cream mix

  • Cheese, whey, pudding, kefir, sour milk

• Super-heating of cream

• Brine cooling

• Hot water boiler & CIP heater

Edible Oils

• Cooling & heating of edible oils & fatty acids

• Heat recovery in refining process

• Winterizing of edible oils

Food Ingredients

• Short-term heating of gelatin & basic materials

• Cooling of yeast wort & liquid sponge

• Cooling, heating & pasteurizing of:

  • Ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard

  • Margarine, soy milk, emulsions

• Hot water boiler & CIP heater

• Evaporation systems for gelatin, pectin, extracts (herbs, tea, coffee, protein hydrolysates, sauces, orange peel, etc.)

• Desulphurization of beverages (juices, wine)

Sugars & Starches

Sugar Applications

• Heating, concentration & cooling of sugar juice & derivatives

• Pre-heating & pasteurizing of diluted juices

• Heating & cooling of syrups & molasses

• Heat recovery of molasses & mash

• Multistage concentration systems (cane/beet sugar, invert sugar, palatinite, oligo-fructose, inulin solutions)

Starch Applications

• Heating & cooling of starch solutions, wastewater, and spring water

• Super-heating of saccharified starch solutions (enzyme inactivation)

• Multistage vaporizing systems (glucose, dextrose, maltose, sorbitol)

• High-concentration processing for fructose, rice, wheat, potato waters

• Pre-cooling & deep-cooling of syrups & concentrates

• Condensation of flash steam

Proven Expertise Since 1879

• Patented first wort spray cooler for brewing

• Today: serving global leaders in food & beverage processing

• Delivering custom-engineered, high-performance, sanitary-certified solutions

Solutions:

Why API Heat Transfer?

• 140+ years of expertise in sanitary heat transfer

• 3A Certified for stringent food & dairy applications

• Global network of manufacturing & service facilities

• Complete lifecycle support: design, commissioning, cleaning, regasketing, and service

High-performance heat transfer. It’s who they are.