Hermetic Design de Alfa Laval
Nuestro exclusivo separador hermético proporciona un tratamiento delicado del producto, un flujo continuo y un producto de máxima calidad. Lo denominamos "Hermetic Design" de Alfa Laval. Reduce la fuerza de cizallamiento, disminuye el consumo de energía y evita la captación de oxígeno. Un entorno sin aire en el fluido del proceso garantiza un mejor control de este y unas condiciones óptimas. Con Hermetic Design, el separador consume menos energía, gracias a la dinámica de fluidos favorable dentro del recipiente. El diseño también optimiza el ciclo de limpieza en el lugar (CIP), lo que asegura que el fluido CIP entre en contacto con todas las piezas bañadas por el producto.
Features
- Airtight bottom-feed inlet
- Smooth flow paths
- Airtight outlet
Advantages
- No oxidation of product
- Gentle handling of shear-sensitive fluids
- High degree of flexibility and wider flow range without having to adjust separator hardware
- Higher product quality
- Up to 40% in energy savings
Benefits
- Lower shear for smooth acceleration of the feed and gentle product flow
- No oxygen pick-up, no air interface
- Higher separation efficiency
- No loss of volatile components
- Higher degree of process control
- Less energy consumption
- Efficient cleaning-in-place (CIP)
How Hermetic Design works
From the separator’s airtight bottom-fed inlet zone, feed enters the separator through a closed hollow spindle, which prevents oxygen pickup. The bowl with its carefully engineered outlets effectively eliminates any air-liquid interface inside the separator. Low shear in the feed inlet zone secures gentle product acceleration into the separator, and low shear in the bowl ensures gentle product handling during the separation process. This minimizes product loss and increases separation efficiency. Hermetic Design, for instance, prevents the destruction of the cell walls for biotech processes and emulsification in dairy and edible oil processes.
Hermetic Design™: an expert view
Our expert in life-science and industrial fermentation applications has been working with separation technology for more than 30 years. Watch this video to hear him explain the inner workings of the Hermetic Design™ technology. Learn more about the various benefits it can bring to products across a wide spectrum of different industries and applications.
eDrive™ and Hermetic Design™ mean energy and cost efficiency
Take a closer look at Alfa Laval’s unique Hermetic Design™ concept. This animation goes inside an Alfa Laval separator to give you a better view of how the technology works. It explains how Hermetic Design in combination with our eDrive direct-drive system provides market-leading energy efficiency along with market-leading cost savings.
Take advantage of Alfa Laval features
All Alfa Laval separators are developed with the benefit of more than 130 years of experience with disc stack separation technology and our deep knowledge of customer processes. Find out how all that expertise has gone into unique features for improved separation performance.
