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Concentration mass balance

Calculate retained soluble component, concentrated output and removed water at a specified recovered-feed boundary.

Result boundary

Your inputs determine the balance

Enter the known conditions. No crop yield, equipment rating or commercial price is prefilled.

Concentrated product kg/h = feed kg/h × inlet soluble-solids fraction ÷ target fraction. Removed water = feed − concentrated product.

Feed is juice or puree at the concentration inlet, not incoming whole-fruit mass.
Inlet and target must have a comparable mass basis. Brix is a proxy only where appropriate to the actual product.
Assumes retained soluble solids and water-only removal. No additions, entrainment, process loss or evaporator design rating.

Result boundary

Enter the known conditions. No crop yield, equipment rating or commercial price is prefilled.

Final mixture kg = feed kg × inlet fraction ÷ target fraction. Added water = final mixture − feed.

Water-only addition, retained soluble component and no loss.
Use a common mass-fraction basis; refractometer Brix is only a proxy where established for the product.
No volume, water quality, preservation process or finished recipe is specified.

Result boundary

Enter the known conditions. No crop yield, equipment rating or commercial price is prefilled.

Blend fraction = (first mass × first fraction + second mass × second fraction) ÷ combined mass.

Inputs are masses, not volumes. Both percentages describe the same compatible component.
Assumes simple mixing with no reaction, precipitation or loss.
Different recipes may not share an equivalent Brix basis; establish compatibility first.

Save the inputs, units and assumptions with the result. The site team needs to know which stream and operating period the values describe.