Separators for pharma extraction
Optimize your pharmaceutical extraction process with innovative centrifugal separation technology that ensures high yield and purity, seamlessly integrating separation, extraction, and clarification in a fully automated setup.
Separates and Extracts Pharmaceutical Ingredients
The Separators for Pharma Extraction from GEA are engineered to meet stringent GMP requirements, offering pharmaceutical manufacturers an optimal solution for their extraction and clarification needs. Utilizing a patented hydrohermetic feed and hydrostop system, these separators eliminate shear forces, ensuring gentle product handling. Ideal for applications such as processing monoclonal antibodies and vaccine components, these separators support high throughput with a compact footprint, minimizing operating and investment costs by requiring less solvent and fewer stages. The centrifugal design enhances phase separation efficiency and product yield while maintaining outstanding process security and availability. Equipped with a fully automatic CIP system, the separators facilitate seamless cleaning and maintenance, supporting continuous operation. Available material options ensure compatibility across diverse chemical processes, with GEA providing tailored engineering support for integration into existing production lines.
Benefits
- Enhances product purity with specialized separation and extraction capabilities.
- Minimizes operational costs by reducing solvent and energy requirements.
- Supports continuous production with fully automated, CIP-enabled cleaning.
- Provides high yield efficiency, reducing the number of necessary extraction stages.
- Ensures compliance with GMP for seamless integration into regulated environments.
- Applications
- Biopharmaceuticals,Pharmaceutical products,Nutraceuticals,Fine chemicals
- End products
- Active pharmaceutical ingredients (apis),Monoclonal antibodies,Herbal extracts,Probiotics,Vaccine components,Dietary supplements
- Steps before
- Purification,Separation,Mixing
- Steps after
- CIP Cleaning,Sterilization,Packing
- Input ingredients
- liquid-liquid mixture,solvent,low solid content materials
- Output ingredients
- purified liquid,extracted product,separated phases
- 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.
- Compliance
- GMP requirements
- Automation
- Fully automatic cleaning-in-place (CIP)
- Feed system
- Patented hydrohermetic feed
- Ejection system
- Hydrostop system for controlled partial ejections
- Operating cost reduction
- Low solvent requirement
- Yield
- Higher overall yield by short contact times
- Investment cost reduction
- High stage efficiency minimizing the number of stages
- Throughput capacity
- Optimum with minimum space requirement
- Process security
- Higher process security and availability
- Working mechanism
- Hydrohermetic feed system
- Integrated steps
- Automatic cleaning-in-place (CIP)
- CIP/SIP
- CIP
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Changeover time
- Minimal due to automation
- Automation level
- Fully automatic
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Compact footprint
- Yes
- Discharge method
- Hydrostop system for controlled partial ejections
- Tank shape and size
- Customizable according to need
- Hydrohermetic Feed System
- Yes
- Hydrostop System
- Controlled Partial Ejections
- CIP Compatibility
- Fully Automatic
- Integration Possibilities
- Concurrent,Counter-current,Cross-current
- Stage Efficiency Maximization
- High Stage Efficiency
- Automation Level
- Fully Automated