Nurul Faezawaty explains about the portable pasteurizer prototype to several journalists.

SERDANG, 22 April – A group of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) researchers have successfully invented a pasteurizing heater machine for the food and beverages industry with the use of the ohmic heater, which enables you to process food and save energy at the same time.

Team research leader, Prof. Ir. Dr. Norman Mariun from the Faculty of Engineering said that the machine is able to create its own heat energy and hasten the increase in temperature which can be transferred to the food.

“The pasteurized product will become very hot within 20-30 minutes compared to a conventional heater which uses excessive heat and electricity.”

“This process is able to reduce production costs because industry members do no need to use costly steam boilers,” he said at the UPM’s Research Findings Promotion event held at UPM recently.

He said that pasteurizing will not only decrease microorganismic activities, which cause food to spoil, but also enable food to be kept longer at lower temperatures.

He added that the device is also more cost efficient since as much as 30 to 60 percent of capital cost could be saved. In addition, handling costs would be 50 – 75 percent lower and fuel energy between 10 to 50 percent lower.

Dr. Norman, whose team took two years to complete the research, stated that the ohmic pasteurizer system can be dismantled and reassembled in easy, portable parts.

“This pasteurizing machine is most suitable for Small and Medium Industry Entrepreneurs who are constantly seeking alternatives in saving operational costs,” he said.

The pasteurizing machine managed to win the gold medal at the International Trade Fair Ideas-Inventions-New Product Exhibition (IENA 2008) in Nuremberg, Germany.

Besides Dr. Norman, the other researchers included the Head of Department, Electric and Electronic Engineering Department, Dr. Hashim Hizam; Research Officer, Nurul Faezawaty Jamaludin and former Senior Lecturer from the Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Hishamuddin Jamaludin.


(From the left) Dr. Hashim Hizam, Prof. Ir. Dr. Norman Mariun, Hishamuddin Jamaludin, Nurul Faezawaty and Arash Toudeshki together with the prizes they won in Germany recently.

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