Why Food & Beverage Industry needs Nitrogen?
Onsite nitrogen generating systems are widely used to supply nitrogen for beverage storage, C02 mixing, beverage transport and beverage dispensing to end users such as breweries, juice packagers, vintners and manufacturers of beverage dispensing systems. Relatively low nitrogen purity requirements and continuous nitrogen flow requirement make these applications ideally suited to onsite nitrogen generation.
Nitrogen has many essential uses in dispensing, packaging, and storing different beverages, such as beer and coffee. For example, when beer is exposed to air, it degrades its aroma, taste, and quality. Pure nitrogen is used to stop this undesirable process by removing any oxygen in the empty container before filling it with beer. Nitrogen also eliminates the headspace in the container once it is filled.