Ultra Clean Pigging System
Industries : Food & Beverage
The APV Ultra Clean Pigging System efficiently recovers product from process pipes while maintaining ultra clean standards, ensuring high food integrity. The system provides a sustainable solution that increases productivity, reduces waste and enhances product yields. It is widely used in manufacturing lines for fresh and fermented products, such as milks & vegetable creams, yogurt and desserts, as well as plant-based alternatives, ice cream mix and some types of personal care products.
FEATURES
Efficiently Recover Your Valuable Product
The APV Ultra Clean Pigging System is based on SPX FLOW’s award-winning pigging technology and designed to provide efficient and ultra clean product recovery in manufacturing lines for fresh and fermented products. From milk and vegetable creams, yogurt and desserts to plant-based alternatives, ice cream mix and even some types of personal care products, our scraping system is a sustainable, breakthrough innovation.
This system minimizes product loss and enhances cleaning-in-place (CIP) processes, leading to improved production efficiency and sustainability. The APV Ultra Clean Pigging System adheres to the world’s highest hygienic standards with CE marked, FDA, and EU food contact certified materials. The system can be fitted or retrofitted to any existing system for maximum flexibility. Our pigging technology saves more of your high-value product by reducing product loss through a quicker cleaning process and more uptime. Reducing CIP also helps minimize chemical and water usage.
Highest Hygienic Standards for High Food Safety
The APV Ultra Clean Pigging System is performed under permanent positive pressure which produces a hygienic process while also providing control of the sanitary state by returning the pig in ultra clean conditions for multiple uses.
Benefits:
- High Product Recovery: Provides up to a 70%* reduction in product loss compared to hygienic cleaning systems without the APV pigging system and optimizes recovery before Cleaning-in-Place (CIP), resulting in more uptime with less CIP.
- Enhanced Hygiene: No product bypass; electropolished housings for enhanced cleanability; precise pressure control.
- Increased uptime: Due to faster cleaning methods, it provides more runtime compared to food processing plants without the APV pigging system.
- Certified Materials: CE marked, FDA and EU food contact certified materials.
- Sustainable Design: Minimizes water and CIP chemical usage by up to 70% * due to less product soil to be washed out of the pipes.
- Easy to use and maintain: It can be retrofitted into existing systems and is optimized for maintenance using SPX FLOW spare parts, simplifying maintenance and operation.
*Figures are contingent on actual running conditions within the plant.
Why Choose APV Ultra Clean Pigging System?
- By Design: Ensures no product bypass and precise pressure control. Features the same upgraded design developed for SPX FLOW’s award-winning Aseptic Pigging System without steam barriers.
- By Construction: Electropolished housings for better cleanability.
- By Material: Certified for FDA and EU food contact.
- Functionality: Optimized for high-efficiency product recovery and minimal waste.
Our pigging system is designed to handle a wide range of products, ensuring efficiency and hygiene across various industries. Below are some of the key applications:
- Any liquid and viscous products
- Cream with 40% fat and higher
- Cosmetics
- Fresh and fermented products, such as yogurts and spreadable cheeses
- Ice cream
- Milk concentrates
- Nutraceuticals
- Plant based applications
The APV Ultra Clean Pigging System uses a projectile, commonly called a “pig” or “scraper,” made of silicone or EPDM rubber that pushes the product through the pipe. Instead of using water to clean the product from pipes at the end of a production run, the pig clears all product remnants pushed by water, compressed air or inert gas. This saves valuable product from being flushed away while also reducing water usage as there is no direct contact of product with water. There is always a scraper between water and product giving a clean-cut during change overs.
- Pre-Production Setup: The process line is cleaned and dried.
- Product Priming: Product is initially primed from the valve manifold through the launching station to the receiving station.
- Production Cycle: Continuous production of fresh and fermented products.
- End of Production: Sterile air, inert gas or water flushes through the pipeline, releasing the pig to clear the line of all the product.
- Product Recovery: Most of the product is recovered minimizing lost revenue.
- Cleaning-in-Place (CIP): The pig sits in the receiving station while cleaning-in-place CIP is performed. Because there is less product in the pipes, CIP is quicker and minimizes chemical usage and losses. After CIP, the pig is sent back to the launching station using compressed air instead of water. This results in a clean, empty pipe ready for the next production run, further reducing losses.
By utilizing APV Ultra Clean Pigging System, you can recover more product, reduce waste, and save water, making your production processes more efficient and sustainable.