Foodec Hygiene Plus
Foodec Hygiene Plus is a food manufacturing hygiene equipment designed to meet the rigorous standards of the food and beverage industry. Combining unique innovations for superior hygiene with gentle product handling and optimal uptime, Foodec Hygiene Plus brings best-in-class performance to meet your separation needs.
Experience the outstanding hygienic design of food processing equipment
- Achieve high separation efficiency, excellent hygiene and gentle product treatment to meet the most stringent hygienic demands
- Efficient solids recovery that delivers high yields of sufficiently dry solids, leaving a clear centrate
- Low oxidation, continuous processing and easy operation makes Foodec Hygiene Plus a safe and profitable choice for many food and beverage applications
- Benefit from gentle acceleration and strong wear resistance to minimize downtime and maintenance costs
Hygiene, quality and optimized volume
Because safety standards and hygiene in food processing are constantly evolving, Alfa Laval Foodec Hygiene Plus is the result of deep technical expertise and a thorough understanding of what our customers expect from the sanitary design of food processing equipment.
Using advanced food processing technologies, this state-of-the-art decanter is engineered to deliver optimal uptime thanks to its outstanding reliability. Virtually eliminate problems such as oxidation and foaming, while optimizing hygiene and drastically reducing processing times. Moreover, through efficient and hygienic separation of by-products, Foodec Hygiene Plus decanters enable you further improve extraction yield, reduce waste and increase revenue.
Innovative solutions for maximized cleanability gives Foodec Hygiene Plus an edge in separation efficiency, hygiene assurance and careful handling of your product
- The drainage hole ensures that minimal residue is left in the food decanter centrifuge after operation, making cleaning more efficient.
- The product wetted surfaces inside the Foodec Hygiene Plus are designed and engineered to be as smooth as possible, making cleaning easier and more effective. The smooth surface also reduces the build-up of biofilm.
- CIP feed tube, critical dead-end areas of the feed tube are now easier to clean. In particular, the area around the decanter feed zone and the tapered cone section can also be cleaned much more effectively.
- The integrated cleaning-in-place bar is a new, optimized design which makes it easier to clean every part of the inside of the frame and the outside of the bowl while minimizing the amount of cleaning media required.
Alfa Laval Foodec Hygiene Plus – Outstanding hygiene. Unparalleled performance.
Alfa Laval Foodec Hygiene Plus – Outstanding hygiene. Unparalleled performance.
Listen to our global experts describing the benefits of Foodec Hygiene Plus decanter centrifuges.
The features that make the difference
Everything you need to meet your challenges today – and tomorrow
Alfa Laval continuously improves its decanter solutions with advanced sanitary features to enhance both hygiene and operational efficiency. Foodec Hygiene Plus combines superior hygienic properties with high-performance separation, helping your food processing equipment meet the most stringent food safety standards. With the right configuration, your food manufacturing hygiene equipment is more than ready for the task.
SaniRibs®
Clean, efficient way to transport solids
Unique seal welded ribs create more friction, which offers better, more efficient solids transportation. This innovative technology also eliminates pathogen hot-spots and allows for easy cleaning, meaning longer production runs, less manual maintenance, and improved profits.
TrueStainless™
Stainless steel for long-lasting hygiene
TrueStainless™ ensures solid stainless steel is used for the frame and other key parts of your decanter centrifuge that may be in contact with corrosive atmospheres, leading to optimal hygiene and longer equipment life.
PondCtrl™
Adjustable pond depth control during operation
Fast and accurate adjustment of your decanter centrifuge pond depth, ensuring optimum conditions for maximum separation performance, cleanability and easy start-ups.
SaniFeed
Feed zone optimized for sanitary applications
The uniquely designed SaniFeed feed zone ensures gentle product acceleration and minimal turbulence, resulting in low power consumption. The smooth, crevice-free surfaces and absence of sharp corners ensure fast and effective cleaning, and in turn maximum uptime, and a high level of hygiene.
DeepPond
High separation performance and energy efficiency
Increasing the pond depth inside the bowl creates a larger volume, leading to longer retention time and improved separation performance. The DeepPond design delivers high solids dryness and clean centrate from your decanter centrifuge, even at high flow rates.
With the Foodec Hygiene Plus, extra features designed to boost hygiene levels are included as standard in your food manufacturing hygiene equipment. These features can also be installed to existing decanters as an upgrade, bringing older solutions up to existing hygiene demands and expectations. Where hygiene is even more important, we can also offer additional features to further boost cleanliness.
Upgrade to SaniRibs® transportation aid
As food safety standards rise and advanced research makes it possible to detect previously unseen contaminants, the sanitary design of food processing equipment has never been more critical — not only for compliance, but also to ensure a final product with the precise taste, texture and quality that consumers expect. Saniribs® improve solids transport by creating micro-turbulence and disrupting boundary layers. Their innovative design eliminates crevices found in traditional spot-welded aids, reducing bacterial risk and boosting throughput. Cleaning cycles become shorter and require less water and fewer chemicals.
How does a food processing equipment work?
Efficient handling of the solids fraction is a key part of the performance of a decanter centrifuge. Inefficient transport of solids reduces capacity and effectiveness of separation.
The scroll conveyor moves the solids through the decanter bowl to the outlet. If the inner surface is completely smooth, the solids have a tendency to rotate with the conveyor rather than move forward as it is being pushed. For many applications it is therefore important to increase friction at the bowl surface to facilitate the scrolling action.
The traditional way of doing this is to install thin ribs that run axially on the inside of the bowl. As solids build up between these ribs, a static layer of solids is formed on the inside surface of the bowl. This layer increases friction and prevents the solids from sliding sideways when the screw conveyor pushes the solids forward. It also helps protect the inside surface against erosion.
The ribs have traditionally been spot welded to the inside of the bowl, which has created crevices between the ribs and the bowl surface that are hard to clean properly.
The new SaniRibs® design features ribs that are seal welded to the surface, thereby eliminating the crevices and any risk of bacterial growth.
Customer success with hygienic design of food processing equipment
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Service for your food decanter
Contact our dedicated service expert for a Service Agreement offer that meets your specific requirements.
Effective maintenance of Foodec Hygiene Plus food decanters is essential for ensuring optimal process performance alongside the best possible hygiene levels.
Depending on process conditions such as running time, type of raw material, process temperature and the number of CIP cycles, Alfa Laval recommends having a decanter inspection at least every 4-6 months, and a major service at least once per year. Qualified Alfa Laval field service engineers can perform service and inspection either on site or in an Alfa Laval service center, so you can decide which works best for your specific needs.
Maintaining the condition of your bowl and conveyor is a crucial part of decanter maintenance, and it is the key to securing consistent performance and optimal hygiene. Bowl and/or conveyor repair must be carried out at an Alfa Laval service center.
With connected services such as remote monitoring and online support, maintenance intervals can be extended. Maintenance, repairs, condition monitoring and remote access can be offered as a package in a single Service Agreement, tailored to your specific needs. Alfa Laval also offers training for on-site maintenance staff.
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Evolving demand is what constantly drives us to engineer solutions using advanced food processing technologies. Solutions which exceed our customers’ expectations of hygiene and performance in a food decanter centrifuge. That is why we have developed Alfa Laval Foodec Hygiene Plus – a state-of-the-art solution for the food industry.
