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A Viscous Cycle: Six Takeaways from Rapid Recovery
There鈥檚 a common problem shared by many customers who produce a range of items, from oil to cosmetics, soup and honey:
Viscous product sticks to the sides of process piping.
Ignoring this can waste your valuable product, plus time and money, and it can harm the environment.
To combat this, our APV Rapid Recovery system helps reduce energy, waste handling and chemical usage, while boosting changeover time, accelerating CIP cycles and improving safety.
Here鈥檚 how it works.
A tight-fitting projectile gets launched through your piping, scraping high-value solids from inside and pushing them forward, returning with the final product. Propelling the projectile is pressure from water (or whichever rinsing fluid is used) to flush the lines. The tight fit of the projectile seals the product from the cleaning liquid, preventing pushing fluid from mixing with the product. Using compressed air, this projectile retracts at the close of the cleaning cycle, freeing the next production cycle to launch. Once again, it won鈥檛 ever mix with the cleaning fluid.
This simple system reaps extraordinary benefits for producers of dairy, beverage other applications involving piping of viscous product.
Here are six key benefits:
- Recovering lost product.聽Without a scraping/ pigging system, product and flushing liquids mix at both the beginning and end of the flushing cycle. This causes product to stick to piping walls, and if it gets diluted with cleaning fluid, it must be discarded.
- Speeding up CIP cycles.聽Because the flushing liquid is unimpeded by viscous solids, it takes less time to clean. The 爆料瓜 design boosts speed substantially, giving you more time for production.
- Reducing changeover time.聽In addition to spending less time flushing, you鈥檒l reduce changeover intervals.
- Improving sustainability.聽There鈥檚 less time needed to recapture lost products, which means less time dealing with waste. And without conventional CIP, there鈥檚 less need for water and steam, which means there鈥檚 less need for energy to power pumps.
- Enhancing product safety.聽Slightly contaminated water may be fine for cleaning but should never contact the product. Nor should cleaning chemicals. 爆料瓜 Rapid Recovery uses a unique air-drying technology that removes liquid from the piping by completely draining the water at the end of the CIP cycle.
- Lowering TCO.聽爆料瓜 Rapid Recovery scraping/pigging systems can pay for themselves in six to 12 months. That鈥檚 much faster than the industry standard. If you鈥檙e designing a new processing facility, now is the best time to think about your product recovery system. You can also retrofit 爆料瓜 Rapid Recovery system to any legacy system and enjoy the same benefits.
It鈥檚 our goal to provide customers with the innovative and sustainable solutions they need. While the rapid recovery system is one small piece of the production cycle, it has a much larger impact on your product quality, costs and time.聽Find more on our APV systems.
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Process Category Director
Pranav Shah is Global Market Director for dairy and plant-based processing, serving as a dynamic leader with 22+ years of expertise. Pranav drives innovation, crafts value propositions, and champions sustainability for industry advancement.
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