GEA’s separation test and product trial center
The GEA Separation Test Center helps you to develop your scalable plant-based process solution.
Separators and decanters are not off-the-shelf products. Rather, for optimum use, they must be selected and adjusted specifically for the process of the user. It’s better to test one extra time on a smaller setup and then scale up than risk unnecessary production losses.
Get our experts support and experience to help you in the product development. Define your KPIs depending on your requirements and make your first trials in our PTC.
Our test center experts offer pioneering experience and reliable basic data for the optimum selection and design of centrifuges and separation process lines.
Comprehensive process tests and product trials
Our test services for centrifuges range from the specification of product characteristics and the selection and design of the machine types including peripheral equipment to pilot tests carried out under real conditions and factory acceptances tests (FAT) at GEA or the customer’s own premises.
The test center teams carry out product analysis, analytical measurements, machine trials and process development to comply with the requirements for process engineering task – always in close cooperation with the customer, the responsible product manager and the local sales staff of GEA. This is the best way in which a centrifuge can provide optimum results in subsequent production operation.
An initial step in the development of customer-specific process engineering solutions is to carry out an extensive product analysis to verify the cost and viability of using centrifuges. The analytical service specifies product properties and determines the output values for contractual warranties. The test center conducts machine trialsto determine both operational and scale-up parameters. The exact investment costs can then be determined.
Additionally, GEA supports the development of new processes, optimizes existing processes, conducts initial plant tests and also provides loan machines.
For plant-based applications we can even simulate the entire process by combining the expertise of our different test centers, such as:
- Extraction process incl. centrifugal separation (Germany)
- Evaporation & membrane filtration (Germany & U.S.)
- Pasteurization & aseptic filling (Germany)
GEA customers return from these pilots with samples generally suitable for pre-marketing and with the confidence knowing they will be able to achieve consistency in yield, quality, efficiency and in machine and process performance in their own plants.
Soy beverages are produced in a single-step or double-step extraction process to increse your yield up to 10 %!
Oat, spelt and rice beverage products are produced in a single-step extraction process. A second extraction step may be a great option for increasing your yield at higher concentrations.
Extraction process for
APPLICATIONS
Other cereal-based products
Soy beverage base
Other pulse-based products
