Thermal treatment units for wine processing
Optimize your wine and spirits production with precise temperature control, enabling effective tartaric stabilization, color extraction, and fermentation processes, ensuring consistent quality from grape to bottle.

Heats, Cools, and Stabilizes Wine and Beverages
The Thermal Treatment Units, available in SH, SVM, and SV models, offer precise temperature control for must, wine, spirits, and fruit juice. These units, engineered by The SERAP Group, utilize direct expansion technology for effective heating and cooling within a range of -9.9°C to +40°C. Designed for applications like tartaric acid stabilization and malolactic fermentation, they serve wineries, beverage manufacturers, and fruit juice processors.
The SH model provides a horizontal design, optimized for tartrate precipitation with capacities ranging from 21 to 245 hectolitres. The SVM model, with its cylindrical shape, supports variable capacities from 15 to 135 hectolitres, offering flexibility in processing batches. The SV model is suitable for continuous operations, providing high-capacity storage between 100 to 300 hectolitres with a compact footprint.
These thermal units facilitate a wide range of processes, including cooling, heating, clarification, and fermentation, supporting both batch and continuous operations. Each unit is constructed using durable materials, ensuring corrosion resistance suitable for the food and beverage industry. They integrate seamlessly into pre-processing, processing, and final conditioning stages, allowing for manual operation as needed.
The units are equipped for efficient energy use, contributing to lower operational costs. They are designed to be user-friendly, with easy maintenance provisions for sustained performance over time. For specialized requirements, customization options and technical support are available, ensuring these units meet specific production demands.
Benefits
- Optimizes production efficiency by enabling precise temperature control, crucial for fermentation and stabilization.
- Accommodates variable processing needs with flexible capacity models, ensuring operational adaptability.
- Reduces energy costs through efficient thermal exchange in heating and cooling processes.
- Facilitates seamless integration into existing production lines, enhancing operational continuity.
- Minimizes maintenance downtime with durable, corrosion-resistant construction.
- Applications
- Must,Fruit juice,Spirits,Wine
- End products
- Fermented grape must,Heat-stabilized spirits,Settled grape must,Tartaric acid stabilization wine,Cold-pressed fruit juice,Clarified wine,Malolactic fermented wine,Pre-bottling temperature-controlled wine
- Steps before
- Must settling,Alcohol monitoring
- Steps after
- Bottling,Malolactic fermentation triggering
- Input ingredients
- must,wine,spirits,fruit juice
- Output ingredients
- clarified wine,temperature controlled storage,fined wine,bottled wine,settled must,heated wine,fermented wine
- Market info
- Groupe Serap is renowned for specializing in the manufacturing of industrial cooling and thermal energy storage equipment, primarily serving the dairy and wine industries with advanced milk cooling tanks and wine fermentation storage solutions.
- Capacity
- 15 to 300 hectolitres
- Temperature range
- -9.9°C to +40°C
- Shape
- Horizontal and cylindrical
- Isothermal storage
- Available
- Clarification process
- Cooling
- Agitation type
- Direct expansion agitated
- Working mechanism
- Direct expansion
- Temperature range
- -9.9°C to +40°C
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch or Inline
- Processes integrated
- Cooling,heating,clarification,color extraction,fermentation
- CIP/SIP
- Possible but not specified
- Isothermal storage
- Available
- Automation level
- Not specified
- Flexibility
- Handles variable capacities
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Yes
- Biological compatibility
- Food-grade
- Cleanability
- CIP compatible
- Application
- Must / Wine / Spirits / Fruit Juice
- Tank Shape
- Horizontal / Cylindrical
- Model Capacity
- 15 to 300 hectolitres
- Footprint
- Large capacity for a small footprint
- Tank Design
- Optimized for tartaric precipitation
- Control panel type
- HMI / PLC
- Integration possibilities
- SCADA / DCS
- Design flexibility
- Horizontal / Vertical / Cylindrical
- Capacity range
- 15 to 300 hectolitres
- Operating temperature range
- -9.9°C to +40°C