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INDUSTRY FOCUS Food & Beverage Keeping your cool while cutting costs


There are uncontrollable factors that can affect our sleep. Luckily, in today’s technologically equipped world, there is one that we can control; temperature. For refrigeration plants, sustaining the right temperature is essential for the flow of production but costly in terms of utilities usage. Here, Gernut van Laak, of ABB’s Food and Beverage business, explains why food manufacturers should optimise their processes to reduce energy consumption





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The industrial energy problem


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          


       


Optimising the process


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   


CONTACT: ABB


Web: abb.com Progressive cavity pumps for efficient waste removal


Thanks to their versatility and reliability, progressive cavity pumps (PCPs) continue to remain popular among food processors. Seepex has provided a series of bespoke pumping solutions to Natures Way Foods, a leading manufacturer of fresh convenient foods including ready-to-eat fruit products such as apple, mango and pineapple slices and mixed fruit packs. The preparation of the finished retail products from whole fruit generates peelings, cores and stone waste, all of which must be removed from production areas. Natures Way Food’s existing systems were not able to handle


the volume or variable nature of either the different fruit types or the process methods, some of which are automated whilst others rely on hand trimming. To combat this, Seepex installed PCP from the BTM range linked to the output of automated peelers. The pumps operate according to the peeler output via ultrasonic ‘smart’ level controls. The auger feed ensures optimal pump operation without the usual product ‘bridging’ (where product does not pass into the pumping elements) associated with horizontal grinders situated above pumps, which rely on gravity feed. Trimmings, comprising hand peelings, woody vine, mango and nectarine stones and pits, are collected in tote bins before being tipped into a standalone system, designed by Seepex. The equipment comprises a large, customised reception hopper linked to a vertical grinder and PC pump combination which grinds the waste and pumps it through enclosed pipework directly to the waste reception area. Finally, a Seepex PCP pump with a large reception hopper, bridge breaker and integral knives provides additional capacity for hand-peeled fruit waste and can also act as a back-up to the other systems.


CONTACT: Seepex UK Tel: 01935 472376 Web: seepex.com E: sales.uk@seepex.com Automation | October 2018 31


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