Automated sterilization systems
GEA Levati Food Tech provides solutions for integrated turnkey projects. The access to GEA’s wide portfolio of food technologies allows us to offer our customers best-in-class complete lines for the food industry. Project management core competences include project scheduling optimization, operators training and know-how transfer. GEA’s extensive after sales network is at your disposal for technical assistance during the entire lifecycle of your processing line. Our multiple retorts sterilization system provides integrated, fully automated sterilization systems for complete food processing plants. Modular design and construction allow future system upgrades and adaptability to new products and containers. Our integrated solutions are designed to work with multiple products and containers simultaneously to achieve optimized and cost-effective operations.
Ring-based or shuttle-based systems can be designed according to specific project requirements and layout constraints.
Ring systems
The ring system is based on two-door autoclaves for loading and unloading of baskets from the automated batch retort system. Designed for customers that wish to take advantage of the “FIFO” function, this system ensures that the entire product comes through the autoclaves and that the first product loaded into the autoclave is the first to be unloaded and further processed through handling/packaging systems to enable the full traceability of the product. The ring system can be equipped with empty baskets multilevel store (Multistore system) able to maximize its flexibility and match all kind of production requirements. The RING system is optimal for large scale productions; it reduces operational costs as it requires only only one person to operate it and minimizes the shop floor occupation.
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Shuttle systems
The shuttle system maximizes flexibility because it is perfectly adaptable to future upgrades with new autoclaves or new basket loader/un-loader blocs. The system, suitable also for rotating retorts, has no conveyors inside so it is smaller and requires less maintenance. The shuttle system, tailored to the customers' needs, guarantees top performance in terms of cycle time, effectiveness and efficiency. |
PC-based sterilization system control
All three systems are equipped with a software sterilization control program that provides the following advantages:
- up to 20 retorts can be managed from a single control panel;
- fully automated control system supervises sterilization recipe selection by product basket;
- FIFO basket monitoring record for full product traceability;
- QTM Automated control of pre-set maximum holding time between filling and sterilization phases, preserves product from loss of organoleptic proprieties and keeps minimal bacteria load before thermal process;
- display by synoptic of the whole plant;
- diagnostic control of the whole system with video alarm statistical analysis according to MTBA (Mean time between alarms) average restart time, localization of alarms;
- remote line control.
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