GEA Westfalia Separator at drinktec 2009

2009 is the year of the brewery separator. The anniversary year, to be more precise. This is because the first separator for clarifying beer was used in a brewery in Vienna in 1909, precisely 100 years ago – built by the predecessor of GEA Westfalia Separator. Since that time, the trend towards the centrifuge has been unbroken and, indeed, it has become stronger. GEA Westfalia Separator was repeatedly at the forefront of progress with its innovations in subsequent years, and was responsible for stretching what was feasible to more and more new limits. Since that time, brewery centrifuges have been forcing their way into more and more areas of application. They are for instance used for hot wort clarification, trub wort clarification, pre-clarification and polishing or for recovering extract from tank bottoms and also for beer filtration. Possibilities which GEA Westfalia Separator is presenting at the drinktec 2009.

Many breweries are able to improve their efficiency by using beer recovery technology made by GEA Westfalia Separator. In the field of the Westfalia Separator hydry machines which are suitable in this respect, i.e. the separators which have been designed particularly with regard to minimised production losses, a new dimension of this machine series is being launched on the market with the separator GSC 250 for up to 800 hl/h.  

For the beverage industry, the newly developed clarifying decanter GCF 405 is considered to be a multifunction machine. With a bowl diameter of 400 mm, it provides maximum separation with minimum space requirement in conjunction with good value for money. The new decanter is applied in wine making operations or in fruit juice operations as a multi function machine for dejuicing, must clarification and for processing tank bottom yeast or must trub. Its special bowl design ensures a maximum clarifying area and thus maximum separating performance in every application.

In fruit juice operations, retentate is a byproduct of cross flow filtration and consists essentially of the retained trub particles which were not able to pass through the membrane as well as valuable fruit juice. Ceramic membranes are particularly suitable for maximum concentration of the solids in the retentate. A ceramic membrane is very stable in terms of pressure, and can thus produce a retentate with a solid content with up to 90 percent (by volume). It is accordingly the most efficient filtration method for juice filtration. Such a ceramic module from its own production is also being presented by GEA Westfalia Separator at the drinktec.

Dairy technology is the first group of users to whom GEA Westfalia Separator has provided access to the system of integrated direct drive Westfalia Separator directdrive∞. The drive is housed directly underneath the bowl in the frame. This new type of drive concept for permanent availability of the separators is being used for the first time in practice in the separator CSI 500 for removing bacteria from milk. A key component of Westfalia Separator directdrive∞ is a premium service package with Westfalia Separator wewatch which is also being presented on the stand. In the dairy, the CSI 500 is used for bacteria removal as well as separating and clarifying milk and whey. 

Press Release No. 1788
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