What is Automatic Refill and CIP of Homogenizer Dampers?
Automatic Refill and CIP of Homogenizer Dampers is an upgrade that allows you to maintain an air cushion within the dampers during production, and clean them when required without manual intervention.
What is Automatic Refill and CIP of Homogenizer Dampers?
Automatic Refill and CIP of Homogenizer Dampers is an upgrade that allows you to maintain an air cushion within the dampers during production, and clean them when required without manual intervention.
Challenges faced by customers
Lower efficiency when the homogenizer is a bottleneck
- Increased vibration and cavitation in homogenizer due to reduction of air cushion within dampers, resulting in reduced production time
- Excessive vibrations can lead to increased maintenance costs
- Reduced production due to the need to stop production for refilling with air and manual cleaning of dampers
- Every minute of downtime can mean a lost minute of production if the homogenizer is a bottleneck
Benefits of automatic refilling of air
➜ Less maintenance
With the damper air always refilled, the need for maintenance is reduced. The risk of breakdown of the crankcase and gearbox is also reduced.
➜ Less planned stops
Machines are able to be operated for longer, and stops optimized around the production cycle. Less stops also means cutting down on operating costs as CIP cycles are reduced.
Benefits of fully automated CIP
➜ Dampers cleaned during regular CIP
➜ Less manual intervention
This results in increased hygiene and time saving for operators which can be used for more value adding activities.
Extend production time
before CIP is required
It is worthwhile upgrading to automatically refilled dampers if the fouling level in the heat exchanger has not reached a critical level when the dampers normally need refilling with air.
Example:
- Dampers full after 15 hours and need refilling by hand
- Heat exchanger needs CIP every 20 hours
➜ 33% extra production time gained with the upgrade
Fewer CIP cycles give water and detergent savings
Potential savings from 33% longer running time with reduced CIP need
| Without automatic dampers | With automatic dampers | |
| Capacity in litres per hour | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| Daily production cycle, hours | 15 | 20 |
| Total production per day | 150,000 | 200,000 |
| CIP water consumption, l | 6,000 | 6,000 |
| CIP detergent consumption, l | 80 | 80 |
| Litres of CIP water per 1,000 l of product | 40 | 30 |
| Litres of CIP detergent per 1,000 l of product | 0.53 | 0.40 |
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