Quick, precise, dry – beverage separator GSC 250i

The GSC 250i is the innovative total package of a new beverage separator from GEA Westfalia Separator Group; it combines very high process engineering performance in terms of clarifying efficiency and maximum yield with an engineering standard that guarantees low energy consumption, simple maintenance and low space requirement. 

This is achieved by a combination of the Westfalia Separator^® hydrostop discharge system, which the beverage industry already knows from the application of the Westfalia Separator hydry^® separator series, with the new integrated direct drive. In addition, GEA Westfalia Separator Group has also improved the feed and discharge. This has resulted in a new generation of machines for high-performance separation in the brewing industry for green beer separation, for beer clarification ahead of filtration, beer recovery, hot wort and trub wort separation. The GSC 250i however is also used in the winemaking industry for clarifying must and wine and also in the fruit juice industry for standardisation and clarification applications. 

Additional product gain due to maximum dry matter

Westfalia Separator^® hydrostop is a patented bowl discharge system which guarantees maximum dry matter of the discharged solids and thus correspondingly low product losses or a high product yield in clarification. For operators, this is reflected in an additional gain in terms of product. Westfalia Separator^® hydrostop separators have a ten-fold gap width and operate approximately twenty times more quickly than traditional
machines. They also operate much more precisely because the discharge volume can be precisely adjusted. The liquid content of the solids is minimal in this case. Quick, precise, dry.  

The integrated direct drive has given rise to a drive concept which offers the advantage of being very maintenance-friendly, because it does not feature any belts or gears and is thus automatically more service-friendly: parts which do not exist do not have to be maintained. The third component of the innovation is a modified feed system as well as a modified centripetal pump in the discharge, both in the low energy saving mode. Compared with comparable machines, the energy saving is between 15 and 20 per cent.