Citrus Fruit Optical Sorter by Protec

Protec’s Optical sorters are designed to work with great efficiency in sorting citrus fruit: small size fruits such as lemons, limes, clementines, and larger ones such as oranges and grapefruit.

Their colour sorting technology detects with accurate precision, and selects for removal, unripe and rotten citrus fruits, as well as foreign bodies.

The Roll-Grading system performs product cleaning and grading functions, as it conveys it along the production line. The first set of rollers moves the product, removing small size rejects that are conveyed to the first hopper. Thus, leaves, grass, pedicels, and other small sizes rejects are removed. The second set of rollers is used for grading the product. Products bigger than a specified size move towards the exit, while smaller ones are collected in a second hopper. The size deemed as waste can be manually adjusted in the first set of rollers and the grade can be adjusted in the second set of rollers. Two models available: Roll-Grading 100 and 150.

The Extrasorter separates unrip or rotten fruit from the production line. It also identifies foreign bodies such as leaves, wood and plastic. The output flow therefore only contains fruit suitable to be processed. The sorter features an effective colour-based selection system to identify fruit of the incorrect colours and an infrared lighting system to detect foreign matter, which would be overlooked by conventional vision systems which use visible light. The electro-pneumatic ejector blade system effectively targets small fruit such as lemons, limes and clementines and large sized fruit such as oranges and grapefruits. ExtraSorter models: 20C production of 23 T/hr and 500mm belt width; 30C production of 34 T/hr and 750mm belt width; 40C production of 45 T/hr and 1000mm belt width and 60C production of 60Ton/hr and 1500mm belt width.

The Aspirx machine is developed for sorting citrus fruit pulp is one of Protec's best. The small vesicles containing the juice are a delicate and fine product. Their sorter detects very small defects, even 0.5 mm in size, sorting pure pulp, with all its organoleptic, high-quality features intact. Thanks to the exclusive defect removing suction system, the sorter supplies an output product with excellent organoleptic properties and high commercial value. Aspirx models: 50-50 production of 1-7 T/hr and 500mm belt width; 100-100 production of 6-13 T/hr and 1000mm belt width; 150-150 production of 9-22 Ton/hr and 1500mm belt width.