Food Industry Use Cases
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65 use cases
Brewery
Bottle cleaning
Food Industry
Before they are filled with beer, the bottles are thoroughly cleaned. The bottles are fed into the system and filled with caustic water in the basin of the washing facility, which removes all coarse d...
CO2 separator
Food Industry
CO2 is produced during the fermentation process in the fermentation tank. It is captured to increase efficiency and used later in the filling process. To this end, CO2 recirculation systems are integr...
Cleaning agent storage tank of the CIP system
Food Industry
The cleaning of process equipment in the food industry takes place within the framework of validated "Cleaning in Place (CIP)" processes that ensure aseptic conditions in production tanks. Sodium hydr...
Condenser
Food Industry
In the condenser, potable water evaporated as steam and condensed to form pure, clean water . Inside the condenser there is a cooling system that cools the steam to make it condense. The feed of cooli...
Diatomaceous earth filter
Food Industry
After a large part of the yeast has already been filtered out in the separator, the brew leaves the green beer storage tank and is pumped into the diatomaceous earth filter for filtration. Here, the r...
Fermentation tank
Food Industry
After the wort has been cooled down to the appropriate temperature in the wort cooler, it is pumped into the fermentation tanks. The fermentation process is then started by adding in yeast. The yeast...
Green beer storage tank
Food Industry
After fermentation and after a large part of the yeast has already been removed in the separator, the green beer is placed in storage. Here it is continuously cooled. The green beer is then pumped int...
Malt mill
Food Industry
The malt is prepared for mashing in the malt mill. Wet or dry malt mills are used depending on which brewing process is being used. During the milling process it is important to have a continuous flow...
Mash tun
Food Industry
The crushed malt is mixed with brewing water to create the mash. The mixture is heated in the mash tun and the natural enzymes convert the insoluble grain starch into soluble malt sugar. During the pr...
Preparation tank for solvents
Food Industry
A hot caustic solution is required for fast cleaning. It is heated in the storage tank and then flushed into the production equipment. The tank is wrapped in a steam heating jacket that serves to cont...
Raw material silo
Food Industry
Hops, malt and raw fruit sugar are required as raw materials for the brewing process. The raw materials are stored in large silos. To ensure continuous supplies for production are maintained, the leve...
Steam separator
Food Industry
In the production of purified water, the process begins with tap water being fed into the steam separator. The tap water evaporates there and is fed into the condenser. Evaporation is effected by a he...
Storage container for yeast
Food Industry
The yeast is grown and stored in small storage tanks at an optimal temperature, then added to the fermentation tanks as required. To ensure ideal storage, the minimum and maximum limit levels as well...
Storage tank for beer bottling
Food Industry
Beer is continuously delivered into the filler supply tank of the bottling machine. Reliable level measurement is important for an optimal filling process. A point level sensor is used to also prevent...
Storage tank for purified water
Food Industry
Purified water is used for the CIP cleaning of the production equipment. This water is produced through filtration and distillation and then stored temporarily in tanks. Absolute sterility and cleanab...
Wort cooler
Food Industry
In the wort cooler, the wort is cooled down from approx. +100 °C to 8 - 15 °C. The yeast is added in a subsequent process. Reliable pressure measurement is required to maintain an optimal process in t...
Wort kettle
Food Industry
Hops give beer its typical beer aroma. Proper dosage of the hops is therefore enormously important for the flavour of the finished product. Wort and hops are mixed together and cooked in the wort kett...
Yeast separator
Food Industry
After leaving the fermentation tank, the green beer is fed to the separator. There, a large part of the yeast is removed before filtration. To ensure a continuous supply to the separator, the pressure...
Beer tank
Food Industry
During the brewing process, a thick layer of foam is always present in the beer tanks. Therefore usually two pressure transmitters are used for level measurement. One transmitter measures the head pre...
Dairy
Batching tank for milk cultures
Food Industry
The production of dairy cultures is a process characterised by heat treatment, cooling, inoculation, incubation and storage. Exact timing and temperatures must be maintained throughout all phases of p...
Cheese vat
Food Industry
The milk is mixed with the cultures and the rennet and fed into the cheese vat. The milk is then coagulated at a constant temperature of +35 °C. After it has solidified, the curd is cut. The whey is t...
Heat exchanger
Food Industry
In a plate heat exchanger, the milk is heated up to +85 °C, depending on the process, so that all germs are killed. The milk is heated in multiple sections, kept hot and cooled down again by cold, inf...
Homogenizer
Food Industry
In order to prevent the milk fat from settling on top of the milk, either just the cream or the whole milk is homogenised in the next step. This is where the cream or milk is pushed through micro-size...
Jam cooking kettle
Food Industry
Deseeded fruits and other ingredients for the production of jam are weighed and placed in a cooking vessel and gently heated. The cooking process takes place in a closed vacuum boiler at a temperature...
Mixing tank for soft cheese production
Food Industry
In the production of soft cheeses, various types of cheese are mixed and melted in a mixing tank. The cheese collects on the walls of the tank and is scraped off again by large spatulas. To ensure eff...
Preheater
Food Industry
After the raw milk has been delivered and stored, it is first preheated to approx. +55 °C in the preheater before being passed on for separation. To ensure an optimal heating process, both the cool an...
Raw milk tank
Food Industry
The incoming raw milk is stored at a temperature of about 4 °C and stirred gently at all times to ensure it is kept until it is forwarded for further processing. As well as measuring the level in the...
Separator
Food Industry
After the raw milk has been heat treated, it is cleaned in the separator and separated into the components cream and skimmed milk. The raw milk and cream are brought back together again in mixtures th...
Stirring and batching tank for yoghurt
Food Industry
The milk lactose is converted to lactic acid under controlled heating in stirring and batching tanks. This process thickens the milk to yoghurt and gives it its sourish taste. The resulting product is...
Storage container for rennet
Food Industry
The rennet is needed to coagulate the milk when making cheese. It is stored in a storage container and metered out into the cheese vat as needed. Reliable level and point Level detection are essential...
Storage tank for milk and milk products
Food Industry
Milk and milk-based products such as cream, standard and pasteurized milk have to be stored in the correct quantities depending on production requirements. Since whole milk tends to separate into milk...
Supply tank of a filling machine
Food Industry
Yoghurt is stored in the supply tank of the filling machine. Reliable level measurement and point level detection are important for maintaining the filling process. A point level sensor is also used t...
General Food Processing
Animal feed silo
Food Industry
In the agricultural industry, animal feed is usually stored in tall, slim silos. To ensure that there is always enough animal feed in stock, a reliable level measurement combined with wireless data tr...
Aroma vessel
Food Industry
A wide variety of aromas and flavourings are used in the food industry. The containers which store these ingredients until further processing often have small dimensions and internal obstructions. The...
Batch filler vessel
Food Industry
The small batch filler vessels around 1 m high and 60 cm diameter alongside the production facility supply the filler heads of the tank. The products vary from conserve to peanut butter to chocolate s...
Chocolate storage tank
Food Industry
After the “conching” process the liquid chocolate is kept in large tanks for further processing. An agitator stirs the chocolate “mass” to maintain a uniform consistency and temperature in the vessel....
Conveyor belt for sugar beet
Food Industry
The delivered sugar beets are poured from trucks onto conveyor belts that transfer it to the washing and shredding facility. Multiple level sensors are required to monitor the loading of the beet as i...
Evaporator
Food Industry
In the production of spices, the spices are first mixed with water and oil to form a slurry. This is fed into an evaporator, where water is removed to turn it into a kind of syrup. The thickened spice...
Flour silo
Food Industry
The different varieties of flour are most often stored in tall silos with very narrow chambers. Filling takes place regularly and is done pneumatically from the top. In order to produce the desired bl...
Grain silo
Food Industry
Barley is stored in malt houses in silos up to 20 metres high before it is processed into malt for production of beer. Filling the silos generates a lot of dust and the material cone geometry constant...
Ice cream "Premix" mixer
Food Industry
The ingredients for making ice cream are accurately weighed and fed into a mixing tank, where the "premix" is made. Afterwards, the premix is passed through the homogenizer at a pressure of about 140...
Mash tank
Food Industry
Elderberries are first mashed up in order to produce a concentrate, from which food dyes are then made. The elderberry mash is refrigerated to maintain the product quality. Accurate level measurement...
Meat pellets conveyor
Food Industry
The finished meat pellets and kibbles are fed onto a conveyor belt ready for packaging to be sold as pet foods. In order to ensure a continuous supply of meatballs, the conveyor belt requires careful...
Reaction vessel for creatine production
Food Industry
Creatine is a naturally occurring substance in the body, but it is also produced synthetically. The ingredients are filled into an agitated reaction vessel. Mixing the ingredients generates an exother...
Reaction vessel with agitator
Food Industry
Production of polyvinyl acetate – the base material for chewing gum – is carried out in a reaction vessel with a four stage agitator. The various raw materials begin to react when they are mixed by th...
Reactor with fruit concentrate
Food Industry
The reactor is filled with concentrated fruit juice and heated. In order to achieve a higher density, the water content is reduced through evaporation. As soon as the required Brix (density) value is...
Small silos for baking ingredients
Food Industry
Small vessels and hoppers are used as intermediate storage containers in which ingredients such as flour, yeast and salt are there, ready for manufacture into baked goods. Level measurement and point...
Storage silo for sugar and flour
Food Industry
Flour and sugar are the basic ingredients for many food products and stored in silos up to 20 metres high. The filling and emptying is often performed by pneumatic systems that transport the media fro...
Storage tank for liquid foodstuffs
Food Industry
In the food industry, liquid media such as glucose, fruit juice or syrup must always be kept in stock. To get them ready for the production process, some liquids must be either pre-cooled or pre-heate...
Storage tanks for alcohol
Food Industry
Alcohol storage tanks are considered potentially explosive and are therefore kept in special rooms. When the alcohol is needed, it is pumped directly to the appropriate production vessel through a ”ri...
Sugar dissolver vessel
Food Industry
In beet sugar refining the raw sugar is heated and dissolved in water into liquor. There are typically several interconnected agitated vessels in this process, each one with a weir allowing the liquor...
Sugar vacuum pan
Food Industry
The process in a vacuum pan is designed to ensure the growth of sugar crystals. The syrup is cooked in a closed boiler with steam-heated tubes and the liquid is extracted. The intermediate product is...
Thickener for sugar beet juice
Food Industry
The thin juice extracted from sugar beet is thickened by the reduction of excess water in multiple stages at the evaporator station. This evaporation process is carried out under vacuum and heat. The...
Tomato Production
Autoclave
Food Industry
The aluminium cans are sterilised with steam at a temperature of 120 °C and a pressure of 3 bar in an autoclave. Then, while the cans are still in the autoclave, they are cooled down with water to a t...
Concentrator
Food Industry
The so-called Brix value (expressed in Brix degrees) is controlled in a concentrator. This value indicates the proportion of solids in a liquid (density). A certain Brix value is required, for example...
Mixer
Food Industry
Foods often consist of a mixture of different raw materials. Mixers are used, for example, to mix solids into liquids. The resulting mixture is then further processed or used in downstream processes,...
Plastic tank for chlorides and salts
Food Industry
Sodium chloride and calcium salts are stored in small plastic tanks. When necessary, these substances are added to the food as additives to regulate the pH value and consistency. The plant operator ne...
Rotary filling line
Food Industry
The selected, peeled tomatoes are packed in metal cans with a capacity of up to 10 kg. The telescopic filler automatically feeds the tomatoes into the cans. The level of the tomatoes on the turntabl...
Steam pressure peeler
Food Industry
The washed tomatoes are fed into the steam drum on a conveyor belt. They are first heated to about 115 °C. In the next process step, the tomatoes are cooled in a vacuum, which separates the skin from...
Supply tank of tomato filling machine
Food Industry
Tomatoes are stored in the supply tank of the filling machine. Reliable level measurement is important for an optimal filling process. A point level sensor is used to also prevent dry run.
Tank for pH value regulation
Food Industry
When correcting the pH value and adding ingredients; salt, sugar or citric acid are dissolved in water. Depending on the product, acids or bases are added to obtain the desired pH value in the final p...
Tomato juice filling machine
Food Industry
The empty cans enter the filling machine on a conveyor belt. As soon as an individual can reaches the appropriate position for filling, it is pulled in with the help of a pneumatic cylinder and filled...
Tomato juice heat exchanger
Food Industry
In the plate heat exchanger, the tomatoes are heated up to about +85 °C, depending on the product, so that all germs are killed. The tomatoes are heated in multiple sections, kept hot for a time and t...
Tomato pulper
Food Industry
In the pulper, the cores and skins are separated from the pulp of the tomatoes by means of centrifugal force. To ensure that this process runs efficiently and that there is no downtime, it is importan...
Washing line
Food Industry
Tomatoes are unloaded from the truck into the basin and, with the help of water, pumped through the washing line. Heavy materials such as stones and mud sink to the bottom and are caught by a flow in...
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