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In order to guarantee quality and yield, as well as a high degree of added value in the process of recovering potato starch, the overall process must be designed right down to the smallest detail to meet the specific needs of the product to be processed.

The water content of potatoes, which are used for starch extraction for more than 150 years, is notably high at 75 percent which limits its storability. Extraction of potato starch thus takes place by seasonal working.

For the process and machine technology this means 100 percent performance – no less – from the first day of the season, 24 hours a day, after a production break of several months. GEA Westfalia Separator Group provides the outstanding reliability essential for success in this sector.

Soy protein can be obtained in the form of a concentrate or an isolate. For both variants, the industry uses process lines from GEA Westfalia Separator Group which ensure high product purity combined with a high yield and optimum installation hygiene. The recovery of protein is associated with low fresh water consumption and therefore a reduced waste water load.

Optimizing the overall yield and profitability can only take place when the complete process is taken into consideration. GEA Westfalia Separator Group is unique in being able to provide expert know-how and best in class technology for all the different process stages. Together with our local service and support staff we offer tailor made process solutions for the challenges the wheat starch industry is facing.

Centrifugal separation technology is still at the heart of cost-conscious production of high quality juice. It ensures optimum initial clarification before filtration, with minimal loss of juice. GEA Westfalia Separator hydry® and hyvol® centrifuges provide the right concept for every requirement, depending on whether a high yield or maximum throughputs are required. The GEA Westfalia Separator frupex® method shows how it is possible to combine a gentle manufacturing process with maximum economy.

GEA Westfalia Separator Group offers innovative processes and systems which can be used across a wide range of production stages and ensure highest quality and economy – from table wine to wines from specially selected grapes such as “Beerenauslese”.

Besides centrifugation with decanters and separators, the company is also a specialist in membrane filtration with ceramic elements. GEA Westfalia Separator Group therefore represents the complete spectrum of mechanical separation technology from diverse preliminary process stages through coarse and fine clarification right up to polishing.

GEA Westfalia Separator has been heavily involved in developing a large number of new processes, for modern methods of processing citrus fruits provide many possibilities for the application of clarifying and separating technology.

This technical-scientific documentation details the wide range of methods and technological stages of citrus fruit processing. In particular, it will discuss the use of centrifuges for solving a wide range of problems encountered in the fields of separation and clarification.

The BilgeMaster, SludgeMaster and CombiMaster systems from GEA Westfalia Separator secure the oceans’ sensitive ecosystems extremely effectively and also provide protection for the value of the operators investment.

The main benefits of the systems are the high separating efficiency, continuous unmanned operation combined with pronounced service friendliness and, of course, the significantly reduced disposal costs associated with the method.

The systems meet the prevailing statutory regulations of the IMO with a residual oil content of much less than 15 ppm. The systems have been awarded type approval according to the IMO Resolution MEPC 107(49). With an additional facility, the BilgeMaster can even achieve a residual oil content of less than 5 ppm.

The performance of the GEA Westfalia Separator directdrive incorporating GEA Westfalia Separator wewatch® and a powerful control, combined with the security of GEA Westfalia Separator directcare, leads to the aim of every investment: namely rapid amortization. This includes improved product quality, lower costs, optimized procedures and higher efficiency. All of these are effects which cannot be attained by technology alone.

GEA Westfalia Separator varipond® is a patented control and regulating system that guarantees and precisely ensures a constant concentration for downstream processes when decanters are used.

The comprehensive expertise in the Business Line Environmental Technology enables GEA Westfalia Separator Group to offer customers process solutions which set the worldwide standard for economy, efficiency and long-term environmental protection in the recovery of drinking water and in the treatment of water and waste water.