Cold block piping solution for breweries
Achieve optimal beverage quality and reduce production costs with this advanced piping solution, designed to streamline your cold block processes while ensuring minimal product loss and enhanced cleaning efficiency.
Streamlines Liquid Piping and Connection Systems
The GEA ECO-MATRIX® Piping Solution is an innovative valve matrix designed for efficient liquid piping in beverage, food, and dairy operations. This fully automatic system features a compact tank outlet tree and ECO-MATRIX® double-seat valves, optimizing cleaning conditions and minimizing product losses. It excels in cold block processing, providing seamless integration with brewery systems, ensuring high-quality production of beers, lagers, ales, and carbonated beverages. With fewer valves than traditional systems, it simplifies installation, automation, and reduces maintenance. The integrated LEFF® module significantly decreases cleaning agent and flush-out losses, operating in an ecologically sound manner. Compliant with industry standards, the system supports continuous operation with enhanced flexibility, making it an asset for producers seeking efficiency and product quality in liquid processing.
Benefits
- Enhances product quality with minimal life cycle costs, preserving flavors and stability.
- Streamlines installation and automation, reducing setup time and operational complexity.
- Minimizes cleaning losses with an eco-efficient design, cutting cleaning agent usage.
- Decreases maintenance needs through optimal valve arrangement, improving uptime.
- Ensures fail-safe operation with fully automatic and continuous processing.
- Applications
- Food,Beverages,Brewing systems,Cold block processing,Dairy
- End products
- Carbonated beverages,Lager,Milk,Cheese,Stout,Sparkling water,Cold brew coffee,Yogurt,Cream,Ale,Beers
- Steps before
- Cold Processing,Tank Preparation
- Steps after
- Quality Check,Packaging,Distribution
- Input ingredients
- cold processing ingredients,unprocessed beer,cleaning agents
- Output ingredients
- processed beer,reduced cleaning agent waste
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.
- Automation
- Fully automatic
- Cleaning method
- CIP
- Valve type
- Double-seat valves
- Pipe installation
- Compact tank outlet tree
- Pipe length
- Short vertical pipe
- Efficiency
- Low product losses
- Maintenance
- Less maintenance work
- Operation
- Fail-safe operation
- Environmental sustainability
- Ecologically sound operation
- Flexibility
- Highest flexibility
- Valve arrangement
- Favorable valve arrangement
- Cleaning losses
- Lower cleaning agent losses
- LEFF module
- Integrated
- Flush-out losses
- Less flush-out losses
- Automation level
- Fully Automatic
- Cleaning method
- CIP
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch / Inline Continuous
- Fail-safe operation
- Yes
- Energy efficiency
- Ecologically sound operation
- Compact footprint
- Compact tank outlet tree
- Tank shape
- Short vertical pipe below the tank
- Discharge method
- Fully automatic pipe connection system
- Valve type
- ECO-MATRIX® double-seat valves
- Valve type
- Double-seat valves
- Pipe configuration
- Compact tank outlet tree
- Piping system type
- Fully automatic pipe connection
- Cleaning module
- Integrated LEFF® module