Whirlpool vessel for hot trub separation in brewing
Achieve efficient hot break separation in your brewery with whirlpool vessels designed to optimize wort flow dynamics, ensuring a compact trub cone and clearer wort for a superior brewing process.

Facilitates Hot Trub Separation in Brewing
The GEA Whirlpool Vessel is specifically engineered to optimize the hot trub separation process during wort preparation, essential for producing quality beers such as ales, lagers, and craft brews. Its working principle relies on generating a controlled vortex inside the vessel, effectively concentrating solid particles into a compact trub cone. This process utilizes the precise balance of vessel geometry, entry velocity, and mass flow to ensure efficient separation.
Commonly employed across brewing, wort production, and broader food and beverage industries, this vessel enhances production efficiency and product quality. The GEA Whirlpool Vessel supports both manual and continuous operations, making it adaptable for various production lines. Designed with energy efficiency in mind, it reduces operational costs by streamlining hot break separation, which traditionally requires more energy-intensive methods like centrifugation.
Manufactured for durability, it is available in stainless steel to resist corrosion, ensuring a long service life even under rigorous processing conditions. Integration into existing brewing systems is seamless, leveraging GEA’s engineering support for any required customization in vessel specifications. Additionally, compliance with industry standards is assured, making it a reliable choice for professional brewers aiming to optimize their wort processing capabilities.
Benefits
- Ensures efficient separation of trub from wort, enhancing beverage clarity and quality.
- Decreases operational costs by eliminating the need for energy-intensive centrifuges.
- Facilitates seamless integration into existing brewing processes, reducing installation time.
- Extends equipment lifespan with corrosion-resistant stainless steel construction.
- Customizable design support to optimize for specific production requirements.
- Applications
- Food,Beverage,Brewing,Wort preparation
- End products
- Malt beverages,Craft beer,Pilsner,Ipa,Lager,Stout,Beer,Wheat beer,Ale,Wort,Porter
- Steps before
- Mash boiling,Wort boiling,Wort preparation
- Steps after
- Trub cone formation,Cold wort transfer,Fermentation
- Input ingredients
- wort,brewing materials
- Output ingredients
- hot trub,compact trub cone,hot break separation
- 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.
- Hot trub separation method
- Whirlpool vessel
- Trub cone formation
- Compact
- Working mechanism
- Hot trub separation
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch
- Entry velocity into vessel
- Adjustable
- Flow conditions
- Controlled
- Compact trub cone formation
- Guaranteed with correct balance
- Wort mass flow
- Optimized for performance
- Automation level
- PLC/SCADA compatible
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Tank shape
- Cylindrical
- Vessel geometry
- Optimized for efficient trub separation
- Wort outlet arrangement
- Customizable for various flow conditions
- Entry velocity control
- Adjustable based on brewing process requirements