Hygienic WideGap – the ultimate heat exchanger for fibrous fluids
How to save energy and money with Alfa Laval’s Hygienic WideGap heat exchangers
As a producer of fruit juices, pulps, or purées, you know how important it is to keep your production efficient and profitable.
You also know how challenging it can be to deal with sticky and viscous products that can clog your heat exchangers, reduce your heat recovery, and increase your energy consumption.
DATE APRIL 2024
Meet Hygienic WideGap
This is why we want to introduce you to Alfa Laval’s Hygienic WideGap heat exchanger, the ultimate solution in the food and beverage industry when it comes to the challenge of handling fibrous or glutinous fluids.
With wider gaps between the plates, these heat exchangers are designed to handle fluids with high viscosity, large particles, or fibres – offering superior heat transfer performance, lower pressure drop, and superior cleanability compared to conventional tubular or scraped-surface heat exchangers.
How can Hygienic WideGap benefit your business?
Hygienic WideGap heat exchangers can help save energy and money in several ways:
- They increase heat recovery, enabling you to reduce steam consumption by up to 55%.
- They lower pressure drop, cutting electricity consumption by up to 15%
- They improve product quality and hygiene, preventing fouling, burning, and contamination
- They reduce maintenance and downtime, thanks to their easy-to-open design and self-cleaning effect
Introducing a new heat treatment technology for oat beverage
An oat beverage producer in northern Europe has increased its production run to 18-20 hours while using less water and energy. New design features OpenChannel™ and SmoothPort™ ensure minimized fouling, longer cleaning intervals, superior cleanability, and easier maintenance.
Alfa Laval WideGap technology for fruit purée pasteurizing
In France, the Hygienic WideGap’s novel plate design supporting easy handling of large particles and long fibres, its one-third smaller footprint and smaller price tag, were all deciding factors when a producer of fruit purées and juices decided to upgrade its heat exchanger technology.
A fruitful collaboration between Dolomiti and Alfa Laval
The dramatic improvement in energy consumption resulted in a payback on investment of less than 1 year for an Italian producer of fruit juices, pulp, and purées. The Hygienic WideGap increased heat recovery, enabling a 45% reduction in steam consumption while also cutting electricity consumption by 10–15%.
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