ThermaGen™: Save time, money and transform your thermal processing
Are you weighed down by costly trial runs, or struggling to make accurate predictions with the thermal processing of your food or beverage products?
Help is at hand with ThermaGen™, the next generation cloud-based thermal processing tool, offering essential predictive modelling capabilities and the ability to deliver a whole host of benefits.
ThemaGen™ benefits:
- Huge time and cost saving in development trials for new products and processes
- Vital tool for dealing with deviations and making decision on affected product batch disposition
- Fast and simple optimisation of existing processes without multiple expensive process trials
- Vital tool to support process validation activities, offering finite difference, ball method and general method calculation options
NEW 2-month licence option. Members £700+VAT / Non-members £840+VAT
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Fully supported cloud application
Intuitive process flow and user interface
Basic and advanced manipulation cycles
Slide bars for faster calculated outputs
Latest features and functionality
After the success of the initial launch, with many global users of the software, we have listened to feedback from users and added several improvements and new features, including:
- Improved method of developing the theoretical heating curve (allows the user more flexibility to adapt heating rates for more complex products and provides more accurate predictions for complex products and heating cycles).
- Functionality for predictions to be made between different containers (e.g. predicting the product heating and lethality when moving from a pouch to a can).
- ThermaGen™ now simultaneously uses Ball Method to calculate the F value of the thermal process (so, by default, the user will be able to generate Ball Method and General Method results from heat penetration data sets – for either actual data or adapted process cycles).
- Many other tweaks to help users; temperatures can be toggled between °F and °C, improved report outputs, and general user interface improvements.
Who benefits from using ThermaGen™?
Built for any business involved in the thermal processing of food and beverage products, ThermaGen™ offers amazing benefits for those using batch and/or in-container heat processing methods (retorts, pasteurisers and ovens).
With its simple and clean design, it takes no time at all to get comfortable with this powerful tool and utilise everything available at your fingertips.
The benefits of ThermaGen™ are extensive:
- Explore multiple different cycle/process options during product development, and compare the implications on food safety risk, operational efficiency, energy use.
- Support practical validation work by exploring “what-if” scenarios and supporting conclusions based on calculation methods such as General Method or Ball.
- Quickly understand the disposition of a product batch after a process deviation.
- Verify the suitability of changes or product or process conditions. For example, new process equipment, or amended process parameters.
How does ThermaGen™ work?
Requiring just a simple data upload (heat penetration data), ThermaGen™ can quickly calculate through the finite difference method and then display a predicted product heating curve.
From there the user can input changes to process parameters, either simple or complex, and ThermaGen™ will calculate the effect of these process changes on the product heating curve with the subsequent microbiological lethality (e.g. F0 value), and estimated energy use.
Contact us for a demo
Our team can provide:
- A live video demonstration of ThermaGen™ from a Campden BRI specialist
- Log-in credentials for a free trial
- More information about ThermaGen™ features and how to use them
- Quotes for multiple licences (favourable rates for members)
- Answers to any technical or commercial questions
David Whittaker, Process Innovation Lead
