Modular dosing system for brewing and beverage industry
Ensure precise formulation of beverages by seamlessly integrating high-precision dosing and blending into your production line, enhancing flavor consistency and quality control with every batch.
Accurately Blends and Mixes Beverage Components
The Alfadose system from Alfa Laval is a modular in-line dosing solution designed for precise dosing and blending of liquid formulations in the brewing and beverage industries. This system is tailored to ensure consistent production of malt-infused beers, hops-flavored beverages, and soft drink syrups by automatically controlling the flow ratios of various liquid components in real-time. Alfadose operates using high precision volume and mass flow meters, integrated within a PLC-controlled environment, to maintain accuracy across the entire process. Suitable for continuous operations, its compact design focuses on sanitary standards while reducing site work through a plug-and-play installation. The system’s versatility allows it to seamlessly blend into existing production lines for beverage manufacturers, making it adaptable to diverse process requirements. With low maintenance demands and built-in fail-safe monitoring, Alfadose offers reliable operation, ensuring product consistency and quality from batch to batch.
Benefits
- Enhances product consistency by maintaining precise dosing ratios for each batch.
- Minimizes manual intervention through automated control, reducing labor costs.
- Adapts to diverse process requirements for flexibility in beverage formulation.
- Ensures reliable operation with fail-safe monitoring and low maintenance design.
- Complies with sanitary standards for hygienic processing in the food and beverage industry.
- Applications
- Beverages,Liquid formulations,Beverage ingredients,Soft drinks,Beer,Brewing ingredients
- End products
- Liquid flavor blend,Malt-infused beer,Hops extract,Fruit-flavored beverage,Soft drink formulation,Malt extract,Hops-flavored beer,Soft drink syrup,Beverage concentrate
- Steps before
- Ingredient Preparation,Raw Material Handling,Cleaning,Inspection
- Steps after
- Packaging,Storage,Quality Control,Distribution
- Input ingredients
- malt extract,hops extract,colour,flavour,various liquids,soft drink ingredients
- Output ingredients
- adjusted beer,beverages,final product,soft drinks
- Market info
- Alfa Laval is renowned for its expertise in heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling technologies, providing innovative, energy-efficient engineered-to-order solutions for various industries including food, marine, and energy.
- Accuracy
- High precision volume or mass flow meters
- Automation
- Fully automatic,PLC-controlled
- Dosing type
- Inline dosing and blending
- Dosing accuracy
- Outstanding accuracy in dosing ratios
- Working mechanism
- Modular dosing system
- Automation level
- Fully automatic with PLC control
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- CIP/SIP
- Sanitary design
- Changeover time
- Minimal site work needed
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- 3A Sanitary Standards
- Yes
- ISO 9001
- Possible
- FDA Compliance
- Yes
- EHEDG Certification
- Yes
- CE Marking
- Yes
- GMP Compliance
- Yes
- Control panel type
- PLC-operated
- Discharge method
- Inline
- Control panel type
- Colour screen operator interface
- HMI type
- PLC-controlled
- Integration possibilities
- Fully automatic with fail-safe monitoring
- Recipe management
- Preset by operator