NEW VAK KIMSA, S.A. AGITATOR – MULFO-LK – AVAILABLE FROM ITS
This new bottom agitator is designed for dissolution and dispersion processes for a wide range of applications: food, chemical, cosmetic and pharmaceutical. Its radial design with slotted stator generates high pump flow rate and high-shearing.
FLOW-HOW made by Anderson-Negele: Flow control with FMQ – From ITS
Precise flow control is an efficient way to automate processes and to save resources in many dairy and beverage applications. With the FMQ electromagnetic flow meter, we are realigning the cost-benefit ratio. Especially in times of rising prices for raw materials, product and energy, a closer look at all processes is worthwhile.
An inexpensive and compact all-rounder, the electromagnetic FMQ is a versatile, robust and reliable flowmeter for all conductive media. The performance spectrum is tailored to the needs of hygienic food processing. With an operating range from 30…640.000 l/h and a measuring accuracy of ± 0.5 % ± 2 mm/s, it covers most applications, including dosing, filling, and CIP process control.
The FMQ is equipped with a digital IO-Link interface in addition to a 4…20 mA output.
Put an end to product losses and save money through precise flow measurement in all process steps! Discover all advantages of the FMQ Flow meter: https://www.industrialtradingsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/FMQ-Product-Information.pdf
The SLH twin screw pumps by ITT Bornemann have been in widespread use for many years in the most diverse applications throughout the Beverage industry.
In the case of fruit juices, for example, they are used as discharge pumps under the deaerator or for tank unloading.
Bornemann SLH-series has particularly been developed for applications in the Hygienic Industry as the 2-in-1 principle conveys and cleans in one pump!
SLH Pumps are ideal for the pumping of:
Juices
Concentrates
Syrup
Sparkling wine / beer
Yeast
Fruit pulp
Why choose an SLH:
* Flexibility (widest range of viscosities and speed range)
* Smooth conveyance (low-pulsation handling)
* Hygienic design (EHEDG Aseptic Class I and 3A)
* 2 in 1 principle (no need for a CIP pump)
* High suction performance ( less than -0.8 bar)
Applications:
* Unloading of tankers
* Mobile unloading of tankers
* Transfer pump
* Pressure boosting pump
* Discharge pump for deaerator
* Back pressure pump
* Aseptic filling
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Alfa Laval butterfly valves are high-performance shut-off valves for use in stainless steel pipe systems of hygienic and high-purity process applications. Suitable for use within the food, beverage, personal care, biotech and pharmaceutical industries.
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*This offer is only exclusive to ITS Lite and is applicable for one use per customer on all Alfa Laval Butterfly Valves. Offer not valid in conjunction with any other promotional offer or discount.
* Improve the product quality: The closed system design eliminates the risk of contamination of your product.
* Reduce waste and operation costs: The self-cleaning filter eliminates the need for replacing filter media and disposal costs, reducing product wastage, downtime, and labour costs.
* Increase your production rates: With its self-cleaning design there is no need to change filter media, resulting in consistent and reliable filtration.
* Safeguard the health and safety of your operators: With a closed system design, no hazardous product or evaporations escape during operation, limiting operator exposure to contact with the products
Take a look through our brochure to find out more:
Contact us if you would like a quotation or to speak with one of our Technical Sales team about the HiFlux Filtration range we have available: 01675 465191 / sales@industrialtradingsolutions.com / Visit our website: Product Page
ITS know that measurement and monitoring is critical within the hygienic processing industries, and that’s why we have a highly reliable range of instrumentation equipment available from our approved manufacturers.
Our equipment provides you with the ability to accurately measure anything from pressure, temperature, fluid levels and flow rates to product analytics including PH, conductivity, weight and chemical composition, meaning you always have full visibility of the process and can therefore see where tweaks are needed to improve it.
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Select an ITS Servicing Package for your hygienic process equipment and be assured that a dedicated engineer will be available when and where you need them. We can be called out for planned maintenance needs along with any emergency requirements that may arise, providing peace of mind that production downtime is kept to an absolute minimum and you can stay focussed on the important tasks of production and profit.
With options to suit all budgets, not only do our packages offer technical support, we also include training, equipment health checks, inventory logs and discounts on any spares purchased through ITS for your equipment. You can also choose to pay for your package on an annual or monthly basis, making it easy to plan costs and section budgets.
Take a look at the full list of services we offer here: https://www.industrialtradingsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ITS-Servicing-Maintenance-Brochure-Ref-23012SM-V2.pdf
Visit our website for more information: https://www.industrialtradingsolutions.com/its-servicing/
Or contact us: 01675 465191 / sales@industrialtradingsolutions.com
The processing industry relies on pumps that can transfer liquids without contamination and are designed to meet the stringent standards required for food, beverage, pharmaceutical and dairy processes.
With easy clean and simple maintenance features, ITS have a select range of pumps available that not only withstand the many challenges hygienic industries meet with, but can also serve to optimise these processes with water and energy savings and even increase yield.
Moving industrial fluids is essential to the health of the worldwide economy. There are a variety of methods to transfer these fluids, with the most common being by truck and rail. The process of loading and unloading tank trucks and railcars occurs thousands of times daily at industrial sites across the world.
While this is a routine procedure, it also comes with safety and cost challenges. On the safety side, the primary risks associated with fluid transfer include leakage and spillage, both of which can create catastrophic consequences. Hazards from leaks and spills range from widespread pollution to fires. Regarding expenses, spills and leaks lead to a loss of product. When considering the frequency of fluid transfers across the world, a small spill or leak during each of those interactions creates substantial product loss, all of which impacts the bottom line by millions of dollars. Additionally, if leaks or spills occur, then maintenance also becomes an immediate necessity on the pumping equipment, which adds to those costs. Another costly problem comes from shearing when using a non-adapted pumping technology.
Complicating fluid transfer is the fluid itself. Each liquid brings its share of unique challenges when it comes to loading and unloading. Image 2 shows a few examples of liquids that are transported by road or rail. If there is at least one “yes” in the product line, an adapted pumping technology must be used for loading and unloading applications.
Hazards
Leaks from pumping equipment typically come from the mechanical seal. A truck uses an unloading pump intermittently, meaning that its intervals are not continuous or steady. Those circumstances can prove problematic for products that dry or polymerise when static, especially when a mechanical seal has a leak. Those products will leak rapidly from the compromised seal. Spillage is nearly impossible to avoid.
During those thousands of routine transfers, The hose between the truck tank and the pump must be disconnected. Regardless of the liquid, there will always be some left inside the disconnected segments. This requires recovery protocols and protective measures for staff.
Cost Issues
Outside of the high expenses that come from safety issues, the main costs associated with loading and unloading pumps are maintenance, downtime and product loss. Regarding maintenance, mechanical seals can begin to leak over time, and complications arise even further when considering some applications feature pumps that run continuously,
such as with isocyanates. These low molecular weight chemicals cannot be left in a static state. When they are not moving during loading and unloading functions, they are kept active through continuously running pumps.
Under this scenario, a failed mechanical seal will cause a serious leak, resulting in severe costs, including lost product, maintenance on the seal, product cleanup and halted production. These costs accumulate to create an unnecessary and harmful financial burden. Downtime results from these complications. If liquids cannot be transferred, it creates lost time on both ends and affects the downstream process. The longer the downtime, the more detrimental the costs. Product loss affects cost because of the expensive nature of the transferred liquids.
Whether it be through a major spill or a slow mechanical seal leak, any loss of product will impact expenses. Over time, those expenses become more pronounced and harmful. Additionally, the loss of the product is not the only issue. That lost product, especially during spills, needs to be cleaned up.
Addressing the Challenge
Eccentric disc pumps can mitigate each of the challenges that come from liquid transfers. This technology consists of a cylinder and pumping element mounted on an eccentric shaft. As the shaft rotates, the pumping element forms chambers within the cylinder. This increases the size of the cylinder at the intake port and draws fluid into the pumping chamber. The fluid moves to the discharge port, where the pumping chamber size decreases, squeezing out the fluid.
Seal-less eccentric pumps have proven to be reliable in many loading and unloading applications, mitigating issues like seal leakage, liquid shear and product loss.
Take a look at the Mouvex Eccentric Disc Pumps available from ITS:
If you would like to know more or have a requirement for eccentric disc technology in your facility, please contact us:
Reduce the risk of sudden failures and boost uptime and productivity. The Alfa Laval CM Connect & CM systems analyse the health of rotating process equipment, such as Alfa Laval LKH, SRU, SX, and DuraCirc pumps – by capturing critical data. Providing complete visibility of the vibration, temperature and runtime of your connected pumps and other rotating equipment.
The Alfa Laval CM is a stand alone unit providing local data storage on equipment health and is accessible via Bluetooth.
The Intuitive CM Connect unit can act as both a stand alone Condition Monitor unit but also as a gateway for connecting up to 10 Condition Monitors to a Cloud based storage system via 4G LTE connectivity. This enables user access to store information of multiple Condition monitors all at once from a single connected computers or mobile device, anywhere at anytime.
Condition monitors are compact, intelligent and easy to use maintenance systems – to enhance process continuity and improve asset management for use within the dairy, food, beverage, home-personal care, biotech and pharmaceutical industries.
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FLOW-HOW made by Anderson-Negele: When 40+ years of Mag Flow Expertise meet 90+ years of hygienic sensor competence.
Anderson-Negele are your hygienic instrumentation specialists with the “FLOW-HOW” offering an extensive range of magnetic and turbine flow meters, ultrasonic and calorimetric flow switches that provide a solution for most applications in dairies, breweries, pharmaceutical, food and beverage industries.
What weighing solutions do you use in your processing facility? We discuss the advantages of Eilersen Electric Digital Systems A/S Capacitive Technology over Strain Gauge Load Cells here – Take a read…
Load cells are devices that measure weight or force by converting it into an electronic signal. They are used across various processing industries because they are able to provide accurate and reliable weight measurements in applications where batch control, mixing, dosing and blending of liquids or solids is required, and work well in harsh industrial environments where temperature, humidity, dust, vibration and corrosion may be harmful to other types of sensors.
Although there are several types of loads cells, this comparison of Eilersen Capacitive Technology to Strain Gauge Technology, highlights the advantages and benefits of using Eilersen load cells within processing facilities.
The Basics
Capacitive and strain gauge load cells both relies on an elastic element which is deformed by the load to be measured.
The material used for the elastic element is normally aluminium for low cost load cells and stainless steel for load cells used in corrosive industrial applications.
A capacitive respectively a strain gauge sensor measures the deformation of the elastic element and the output of the sensor is converted by an electronic circuit to a signal which represents the load.
A capacitive sensor is a conductor which, placed at a small distance from the elastic element, measures the deformation without any contact with the elastic element while a strain gage is an insulated resistance foil which is bonded directly to the elastic element and which is consequently exposed directly to the shocks and overloads, frequently met in industrial applications.
Sensitivity
Furthermore a capacitive sensor is very sensitive with a change of capacitance of 10% while the foil strain gage normally only has a change of resistance of 0.1%.
Because of the much higher sensitivity of a capacitive sensor, a much lower deformation of the elastic element is needed and the elastic element of a capacitive load cell is therefore strained around 5 to 10 times lower than the elastic element of a strain gauge load cell.
The low strained element combined with the fact that a capacitive sensor is non-contacting, provides the very high shock resistance and overload capability of the capacitive load cell compared to the strain gauge load cell.
Cabling and Sealing
The high change of capacitance lends itself to provide a digital output signal which in the Eilersen capacitive load cells is a high speed signal, representing the load directly in g, kg or Newton.
A low cost coaxial cable with a one wire hermetically sealed connector supplies the load cell with power and transmits the high speed digital signal back to the instrumentation which may be placed several hundred meter away.
In a standard analogue strain gauge load cell, the power supply and the low level analogue signal are normally conducted through a rather expensive 6 wire cable to the instrumentation where the analogue signal is converted to a digital signal.
In a digital strain gage load cell, an amplifier and also the A/D conversion are placed in the housing and the power supply and the digital signals are normally conducted through a rather expensive 6 or 7 wire cable to the instrumentation.
With the 6 or 7 wire cables used in strain gage load cells it is difficult to obtain the necessary IP68 protection for industrial environments without complicated water traps or expensive multi pole hermetic feed through connections.
In contrast to this, is the uncomplicated IP69K single pole connector used in the Eilersen capacitive load cells which furthermore has the logistically important advantage that the cable may be mounted just before delivery with length and PVC/Teflon type according to customer specifications.
Conclusion
With reference to the above-mentioned merits of the Eilersen capacitive and the strain gauge load cells the following can be concluded:
The Eilersen capacitive load cell provides a tolerance to shock and overloads of up to 10 times nominal load compared to the 2 times nominal load for strain gauge load cells.
This is an obvious advantage in industrial environments and especially for the lower capacity load cells where the risk of damage because of shocks and overloads is high.
The Eilersen capacitive load cell provides a tolerance to side loads and eccentric loads of up to 10 times higher than for strain gauge load cells
These features means that expensive mounting kits with side load- and overload stops – which often cost as much as the load cell itself and needs maintenance – are normally not needed with the Eilersen capacitive load cells which as a consequence offers a simple and inexpensive mechanical mounting in the application.
The factory calibrated, digital high speed signal, conducted through the well shielded coaxial cable, provide simple plug and play installation and at the same time the EMC protection and the protection against welding voltages needed in industrial applications.
The high speed signal, sent at 230 kBaud, with the load value in 24 bits and with address and diagnostic codes, is necessary for the 1000+ readings/second in dynamic weighing applications and for the very short update time of 2 mS necessary for four loads cells in platform and cargo weighing, mixing, dosing and hopper applications.
As a final conclusion, the Eilersen capacitive load cells have important advantages compared to the digital strain gauge load cells.
Look after your Alfa Laval valves with these top ten tips to keep them in tip top condition…
1. Make regular service and maintenance on your Alfa Laval valves for them to be able to perform optimally. The most cost-effective approach is following our simple preventive maintenance programme which will prolong the lifespan of your Alfa Laval valves.
2. Use optimum air quality in operating the valves, i.e. avoiding dust, water and oil in the air system for a longer lifetime and service interval on the actuators.
3. Only operate within temperature ranges specified in the instruction manual to ensure smooth operation.
4. Follow the technical data during installation, operation and maintenance to ensure correct operation.
5. Regularly inspect your Alfa Laval valve for leakage to ensure your process is running efficiently.
6. Carefully monitor your cleaning process since the composition of the cleaning solution can over time affect the rubber.
7. In order to ensure the longest possible lifetime for rubber seals it is essential to choose the right quality for the actual duty.
8. Always use Alfa Laval genuine spare parts which are designed for durability and performance.
9. For product wetted parts ensure lubrication with Paraliq GTE 703 or a similar approved grease which makes maintaining your Alfa Laval valve easier.
10. Always keep Alfa Laval spare rubber seals in stock to avoid unplanned downtime.
In this detailed video, we show you how to perform a service of the Auto-line filter and cover the most important areas, including:
Inlet
Outlet
Drain
Controller
Filter element
Scraper system
(Please keep in mind that the Auto-line filter is a pressure filter and you should therefore complete your safety checks before carrying out a service of the filter.)
Don’t currently have a HiFlux Filter and would like to know more? Visit the ITS website: https://www.industrialtradingsolutions.com/productcategory/hiflux/
The Alfa Laval ThinkTop® V20 valve indication unit offers reliable, accurate, cost-effective, operation of hygienic valves. Also, providing convenient real-time valve position monitoring and easy access to historical data.
Need a food grade hose that has a high resistance to saturated steam in continuous flow applications? Take a look at the new Venair VENA® STEAMFLOW available from ITS…
Unplanned downtime in manufacturing plants is often highly disruptive and very costly (almost 10% of your TCO) but it is not unusual to see the ‘run to failure’ maintenance approach being used in industry. This is the old ‘if it’s not broken, don’t fix it’ method. In many instances the root cause of this is either lack of manpower, or lack of product specific knowledge – Either way, this can lead to critical equipment performing badly, reducing lifespan and increasing the risk of failure.
By introducing some simple measures, these issues can normally be avoided or reduced, and with tailored service contracts provided by ITS, criticality can be identified and individual equipment plans drawn up to suit your facility.
By effectively planning the correct maintenance programme into your schedule, it will save you additional stress, hassle and time, not to mention potential costs. This means you can get on with more important tasks of production and profit…
