Mvr and Tvr heated distillation system
Achieve superior energy efficiency and reduced steam consumption in your distillation and evaporation processes with cutting-edge vapor recompression technology, ideal for optimizing production lines across diverse industries.
Reduces Steam Consumption and Purifies Products
The MVR/TVR heated distillation plants from GEA enhance energy efficiency in your distillation processes by integrating thermal and mechanical vapor recompression technologies. These systems are designed to minimize steam consumption while ensuring high-purity outputs, making them ideal for applications across pharmaceuticals, food, beverage, and chemical industries.
The cornerstone of this equipment is its ability to utilize compressed vapor’s enthalpy for heating, resulting in reduced energy costs. The unit simplifies operation with no moving parts in its TVR setup, ensuring low maintenance. MVR options, while requiring a higher initial investment, offer significant savings in energy expenditure, particularly for newly designed plants.
Applications extend to ethanol purification, high-purity chemical production, and biodiesel processing. These systems are PLC-controlled, supporting continuous and automated operations tailored for liquid and gas products. Materials are available in various corrosion-resistant options like stainless steel, ensuring compatibility with diverse process requirements.
Compliance with industry standards is ensured, with available customization for specific project needs, supported by GEA’s engineering expertise and robust investment in customer support.
Benefits
- Minimizes steam consumption, resulting in significant reductions in energy costs.
- Ensures high-purity outputs essential for pharmaceuticals and chemical processes.
- Reduces maintenance demands with no moving parts in TVR systems.
- Provides energy-efficient operation by utilizing vapor enthalpy for heating.
- Enhances sustainability through lower environmental impact of operations.
- Applications
- Food,Personal care,Gas,Energy,Beverage,Refrigeration,Oil,Heating,Chemical,Environment,Petrochemicals,Home,Biofuel,Dairy,Pharmaceutical
- End products
- Petrochemical derivatives,Purified water,Ethanol,Natural gas liquids,Pharmaceutical intermediates,Renewable diesel,Active pharmaceutical ingredients (apis),Refrigerants,High-purity chemicals,Biogas,Evaporated milk,Milk powder,Biodiesel,Personal care formulations,Essential oils
- Steps before
- Fermentation,Purification,Dehydration
- Steps after
- Reboiling,Product Integration,Packing
- Input ingredients
- vapor streams,motive steam,live steam
- Output ingredients
- condensed vapor,heat,evaporated product
- 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.
- Steam Consumption
- Minimized
- Enthalpy Utilization
- Condensation Enthalpy Used for Heating
- Temperature Level
- Lower Temperature Processes
- Motive Steam Requirement
- Required for Operation
- Automation
- Simple Operation
- Maintenance
- No Maintenance Required
- Cost-Benefit Ratio
- Excellent for New Designs
- Energy Savings
- Higher with MVR
- Evaporation Type
- Gentle Evaporation Due to Low Temperature Differences
- Working mechanism
- MVR (Mechanical Vapor Recompression) / TVR (Thermal Vapor Recompression)
- Energy efficiency
- High energy savings with MVR / Reduced steam consumption
- Automation level
- Manual / PLC
- Maintenance requirements
- No turning parts,minimal maintenance with TVR
- Temperature control
- Low temperature differences
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Integration capability
- Process Integration / Skid Mounted Distillation Units
- Cleaning method
- CIP / Easy implementation
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Discharge method
- Continuous / Batch
- Compact footprint
- Yes
- Control panel type
- Touchscreen / HMI
- Integration possibilities
- With existing systems
- Footprint
- Compact design / Skid mounted
- Heat source technology
- MVR / TVR
- Evaporation process adjustments
- Pressure/temperature settings