GEA AromaPlus PRO reduces the water consumption for diafiltration during dealcoholization by up to 100 percent. The alcoholic base produced as a by-product of the filtration process can be utilized for manufacturing other beverages in the brewery, corresponding to exhausting seltzer.
GEA AromaPlus makes use of a filtration know-how with particular polymer membranes to separate alcohol and water from the opposite elements by means of reverse osmosis; these ingredients are essential for the aroma, color and turbidity of the final product. Adding the new PRO technology to the water-saving CO2 blow-out perform and the selective membrane which is already carried out within the AromaPlus unit design, GEA saves more than two thirds and as much as one hundred pc of the contemporary water used for diafiltration.
“ เกจ์วัดแรงดันแก๊ส combines the pattern in the direction of zero.0% beer with the goal of lowering water in production,” says Ralf Scheibner, filtration skilled at GEA, under whose management the GEA AromaPlus has been further developed. “In fact, a membrane course of requires a lot of water to flush out the alcohol. That is a matter for breweries with a limited deoxygenized water availability. Our new PRO resolution is an important step for them towards recent water neutrality in manufacturing processes.”
The full dealcoholization system GEA AromaPlus is mounted on a body. It contains the filtration modules and reverse osmosis membranes, pumps for media switch and system stress build-up, the complete inside piping, a CIP dosing unit put in subsequent to the system, and the control gear required for semi-automated operation. – Image: GEA/Mike Henning.
While breweries want less fresh water for the diafiltration step, the permeate leaving the system can be reused as a valuable by-product. Due to its lower quantity, it has a higher alcohol content and might subsequently function a base for alcoholic combined drinks and newer drinks, similar to exhausting seltzer, or can be reused inside the brewery itself.
“The Corona pandemic showed that breweries whose production facilities provided the flexibleness to course of different beverages coped finest with the drop in demand. GEA AromaPlus is a good instance of how prospects can gear their crops toward excessive demand dynamics,” says Scheibner. Originally designed for the dealcoholization of beer all the means down to zero.0%, the system can be used used for other non-alcoholic beverages, similar to 0.0% cider.
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