Industrial coffee extraction system for high yields
Maximize coffee yield and quality with precision-controlled extraction systems designed to handle diverse coffee varieties, optimizing your production line’s efficiency while maintaining the aroma and taste integrity of every bean.
Extracts and Refines Coffee Aroma and Flavor
The FIC® and CARINE Extractors from GEA are advanced solutions tailored for the coffee processing industry, designed to enhance the efficiency and quality of coffee aroma and flavor extraction. The FIC® extractor utilizes a rapid, turbulent water flow technique to boost extraction rates, supported by its continuous operation with eight percolator vessels allowing flexible processing modes that can handle various coffee types with capacities ranging from 125 to 1500 kg/h. In contrast, the CARINE extractor operates with ten percolator columns at elevated temperatures of 185–195 °C, optimizing yield up to 60% with its high-temperature hydrolysis process. Both extractors feature integrated PC/PLC systems for seamless automation and offer optional modes for maximizing yield or quality. Engineered from materials ensuring long-lasting performance, these extractors integrate effortlessly within your production line, supporting applications for both liquid and granule end-products like Arabica and Robusta instant coffees, freeze-dried coffee, and concentrated coffee extracts. Whether for large-scale or pilot-scale operations, the FIC® and CARINE provide exceptional versatility, supported by GEA’s extensive engineering support and customization options.
Benefits
- Maximizes yield and quality with adaptable extraction modes tailored to specific coffee types.
- Enhances operational efficiency with fully automated, continuous processing and integrated PC/PLC controls.
- Achieves up to 60% yield, reducing raw material costs through optimized high-temperature extraction.
- Maintains product integrity by preventing flavor degradation with precise cooling and heating steps.
- Offers flexibility for both pilot-scale and large-scale production, accommodating diverse industry needs.
- Applications
- Extracts,Instant coffee,Coffee,Beverage
- End products
- Ready-to-drink coffee beverages,Coffee aroma extracts,Soluble coffee crystals,Robusta instant coffee,Powdered coffee extract,Arabica instant coffee,Freeze-dried coffee,Coffee concentrate
- Steps before
- Roasting,Grinding
- Steps after
- Cooling,Aroma Capture,Packaging
- Input ingredients
- coffee beans
- Output ingredients
- coffee extract,aroma extract
- 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.
- Process capacities
- 125–1500 kg/h
- Extraction temperature
- 140–195°C
- Yield
- Up to 60%
- Automation
- Fully automated,PLC-controlled
- Number of percolator vessels
- 8 (FIC®) / 10 (CARINE)
- Operating modes
- Multiple,including FIC® mode
- Extraction rate
- 50% faster than conventional methods (FIC®)
- Automation level
- Fully automated,PLC-controlled
- Flow type
- Continuous
- Modes of operation
- Three modes (including FIC® mode)
- Extraction temperature
- CARINE
- FIC®
- Desired temperature
- Extraction type
- Enhanced extraction rate (FIC®),High yield (CARINE)
- Yield range
- FIC®
- CARINE
- Up to 60%
- Component design
- High manufacturing standards
- Plant type availability
- Full- and pilot-scale
- Process capacity
- 125–1500 kg/h
- Cleanability
- Easy to clean design
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- High-grade stainless steel
- Density/particle size
- Suitable for coffee particles
- Compact footprint
- Yes
- Control panel type
- Integrated PC/PLC system
- Discharge method
- Automated
- Tank size
- Varies with process capacities
- Basket shape
- Percolator vessels in flowing battery design
- Control panel type
- PC/PLC (Programmable Logic Controller)