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Cooked Meats Producer Cooling /Quench Water Filtration
Fluid : cooling / quench water
Temperature : 3 - 18 degrees C
Pressure : 2.5 barg
Flowrate : 20 1ps (264 gpm)
Line size : 6"
A client who manufactures cooked meats uses water to cool the packets of meat in their plastic packaging.
Problem:
They had to get rid of the water as it became contaminated with particulate in the
form of pieces of meat and plastic and therefore became less efficient as a coolant and
more difficult to use. It was also very costly to discharge large volumes of
contaminated cooling water to the sewer and also very expensive to refill the system
with clean mains water every 2 days.
Solution:
The client did not have the budget to put in an
automatic backwasher filter so we had to come up
with a less costly alternative. We proposed a Fabriplex
bag filter consisting of 4 off 2" SS4-224-LP low
pressure Ronningen-Petter Fabri-Basket filters
mounted in parallel on common 6" ANSI 150
flanged inlet and outlet headers. Each of the 4 bag
filters had its own individual isolation valves to
allow it to be taken off stream for servicing whilst
leaving the remaining 3 on stream to carry on
filtering. Each unit is serviced one at a time with
minimum of fuss or interruption to coolant flow. The
customer used rugged reusable polypropylene filter
bags that can be washed and reused many times.
Result:
Instead of having to empty their whole system every
2 days they now get a weeks run out of it thus
reducing the volume they discharge to drain and the
volume of freshwater they have to purchase.
The water they discharge to drain is also cleaner than it was so they would reducing
discharge costs which is often based upon the level of solids present in the water.
(E & OE)
