The perfect way to pressurize is by simply adding a drop of liquid nitrogen in the bottle. The rapidly evaporating liquid nitrogen will remove the oxygen from the bottle. Immediately afterwards, before all liquid nitrogen has evaporated, the cap is screwed on top. The remaining and still evaporating liquid nitrogen pressurizes the bottle. The thin plastic bottle thus becomes a very strong structure resisting impacts and loads. Thus it can provides costs savings during storage and transportation. A positive side effect of nitrogen dosing is that removing the oxygen from the bottle also improves the live of the shelve and the quality of the bottled product so oxidation from enclosed atmosphere can no longer take place.
Bottling with dosing requires an uninterrupted supply of liquid nitrogen. Not having liquid nitrogen available means interruption of production with possibly long start-up times. All Stirling nitrogen systems are completely self sufficient in producing liquid nitrogen of high purity. Highly reliable and independent of any logistic problem of bulk suppliers.
Few companies in the world are capable of injecting the liquid nitrogen drops into the bottles at high speeds. If requested by the user Stirling Cryogenics co-operates with the suppliers of these nitrogen dosing systems to supply the beverage industry with a complete solution, including the proper interfacing between Stirling system and equipment from other suppliers.
Products
For use in applications as described the following Stirling Cryogenics products may be considered: