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Cleaning 4.0 – News from
Membrane Cleaning
Ensuring flawless dairy products is the speciality of Horpovel®
GmbH. As experts in the manufacture of cleaning and disinfecting
products for the dairy industry, its focus is set on
cleaning membrane filtration systems.
Horpovel® GmbH, manufacturer
of membrane cleaning
agents and cooperation partner
of Koch Separation Solutions*,
has been involved in
the development and furthering of cleaning
chemicals and strategies for the cleaning
of membrane filtration plants in the
food industry as well as the optimisation
of CIP plants and standard cleaning processes
for more than 25 years.
The driving force for Horpovel® GmbH
is the implementation of a solution for
resource-saving, effective and repeatable
cleaning that is adapted to the respective
application.
In addition to the further development of
own cleaning strategies with simulation of
the process on a laboratory scale, new cleaning
processes for membrane systems can also
be tested in laboratory trials for their cleaning
success and membrane compatibility.
On this basis, Horpovel® GmbH was
able to test a two-step cleaning strategy for
various ultrafiltration processes in the field
of ultrafiltration cleaning, for example, and
later implement it on an industrial scale.
As a result, the cleaning time of the
tested ultrafiltration systems could be reduced
by up to 20 % and the amount of
rinsing water by up to 33 %. In the example
mentioned, the cleaning time was
under three hours.
New CIP-Inline-analysistechnique
for Membrane
Systems
In addition, Horpovel® GmbH uses the latest
CIP inline analysis techniques to further
optimise existing processes.
In collaboration with ALPMA/LTH
Dresden, Horpovel® GmbH has developed
a CIP inline analysis tube. This analysis tube
MEMBRANREINIGUNG
In cooperation with
can be installed in various cleaning processes
with little technical effort in order to record
the parameters for optimising the cleaning
steps and rinsing phases in real time for a
corresponding observation period.
In contrast to manual sampling for
analyses or for the adjustment of rinsing
phases, it is thus possible to record a large
number of parameters exact to the second.
16 · November/December 2021 ¦ international-dairy.com
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