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Process Equipment Update


The regular and long-winded cleaning regime this required, including hot water and steam, proved unacceptable from a productivity point of view. So after working with Watson-Marlow, Wine Innovations


decided to acquire Flexicon PD22I industrial peristaltic machines in combination with Flexicon MC12P OEM control units.


The Flexicon PD22I is a table-top unit that requires no cleaning validation. It also facilitates easy and rapid product change-over (less than 60 seconds) and provides no potential for cross-contamination, hence providing the perfect solution to the problems faced by Wine Innovations.


Ease of installation


There are other benefits, too, including ease of installation, the equipment’s accuracy (±0.5 per cent) and speed, its adjustable acceleration and deceleration capability, plus the ability to adjust other parameters at the simple touch of a button.


Importantly the company is also achieving a much better


dissolved oxygen result than before. Oxygen is the ‘enemy’ of wine, and volumetric fillers can occasionally churn the product, creating bubbles, which in turn leads to rejects. Watson Marlow Pumps has also had success at Thames


Water’s advanced water treatment works (AWTW) in Walton, Surrey, where engineering, consulting and construction company Black & Veatch opted to install a number of 520 series and 620 series peristaltic models. .


Quick release functionality


Offering continuous, high-pressure and quick release functionality, the new pumps have slotted comfortably into their high-tech surroundings at Walton, which is one of Thames Water’s flagship process plants. Several processes reliant on pumping operations are vital


to the advanced water treatment process at Walton. For instance, pre-ozonated water is mixed with a coagulant in the flocculators to aid the production of large flocs, which are floated more easily in the subsequent CoCoDAFF (counter- current dissolved air flotation and filtration) process. The addition of coagulant is today facilitated by newly installed 620 series pumps from Watson-Marlow. Historically this site has had close association with


peristaltic pumping technology. “While the previous 504 series pumps for the coagulant


As a world leader in centrifuge technology, Broadbent has an enviable reputation for the development of robust, high quality machines you can trust and rely on - combining innovative design with optimum dewatering/separation performance and low maintenance.


Broadbent centrifuges can be found throughout the International process industries on a diversity of applications, including the production of fine chemicals,


pharmaceuticals and minerals.


For products you can trust and rely on, contact:-


Tel: +44 (0) 1484 477200 Fax: +44 (0) 1484 428041 Web: www.broadbent.co.uk E-mail: ipd@broadbent.co.uk


Industrial Process Division, Thomas Broadbent & Sons Ltd. Huddersfield HD1 3EA England.


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