Single seat valve for hygienic applications
Ensure optimal hygiene and safety with a versatile pneumatic valve designed to meet high process demands, minimizing contamination risk while handling viscous fluids and large particles efficiently.

Regulates and Seals Hygienic Processing Lines
The Unique SSV DN125 and DN150 from Alfa Laval stand out as robust pneumatic single seat valves designed for hygienic applications in the dairy, food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. These valves are engineered with a modular structure, offering the flexibility to customize valve bodies, plugs, and actuators for specific process requirements. The single seat design minimizes contamination risk, optimizing safety in your production line. Utilizing air-operated mechanisms, they effectively regulate processes involving high-viscosity fluids and large particles. Built from durable, stainless steel material and compliant with 3-A and hygienic standards, they ensure high reliability and longevity. Integration with existing systems is seamless, and options such as fully maintainable actuators and various wetted seal materials enhance their functionality. The Unique SSV range also includes advanced features like enhanced performance actuators for safer operations, reducing wear with metal-to-metal contact, and low total cost of ownership owing to minimal maintenance needs.
Benefits
- Enhances operational efficiency with minimal service requirements, reducing downtime and maintenance costs.
- Provides customizable configurations to meet specific hygienic processing needs across various industries.
- Ensures long service life and durability, minimizing wear through precise metal-to-metal contact.
- Complies with hygienic standards, safeguarding product integrity and safety.
- Promotes resource efficiency with reduced cleaning cycles and lower usage of cleaning fluids and utilities.
- Applications
- Food,Home care,Brewery,Personal care,Biotechnology,Beverage,Dairy,Pharmaceuticals
- End products
- Vaccines,Lotion,Cough syrup,Milk,Insulin,Cheese,Beer,Shampoo,Yogurt,Liquid soap,Soft drinks,Fruit juices
- Steps before
- Ingredient Mixing,Pasteurization,Heat Exchanging,Homogenization
- Steps after
- Filling,Bottling,Packaging,Cooling
- Input ingredients
- highly viscous fluids,large particles
- Output ingredients
- hygienic output,safe processed fluids
- 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.
- Valve Size
- DN125 and DN150
- Material
- Stainless Steel
- Operation
- Pneumatic
- Modularity
- Yes,customizable
- Compliance
- 3A and Hygienic Standards
- Application
- Hygienic Applications
- Durability
- High,long-lasting construction
- Actuator
- Semi-maintainable,five-year warranty
- O-ring Compression
- Defined compression with metal-to-metal contact
- Customization Options
- Wide range of optional features
- Cleaning Method
- Effective CIP procedures
- Working Mechanism
- Pneumatic single seat valve
- Automation level
- Remotely operated by compressed air
- CIP/SIP
- Enhanced CIP procedures
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Application flexibility
- Dairy,food,beverage,brewery
- Hygienic Standards
- Compliant
- Valve Type
- Single Seat Valve (SSV)
- Size
- DN125 and DN150
- Material
- Stainless Steel
- Contact Surface
- Single Contact between Plug and Seat
- Modularity
- Yes (Configurable Valve Bodies,Plugs,Actuators)
- Actuator
- Pneumatic
- Actuator type
- Fully maintainable / Semi-maintainable
- Seals material
- HNBR / FPM
- Valve sensing and control devices
- ThinkTop / ThinkTop Basic / IndiTop
- Valve body configuration
- Single / Two / Three valve bodies
- Optional features
- Customized to specific process requirements