Duplex filters save food manufacturing downtime

Custom designed duplex filter systems are preventing the constant blocking of the fine spray nozzles, which are used to apply glaze to food products.

Custom designed duplex filter systems are preventing the constant blocking of the fine spray nozzles, which are used to apply glaze to food products.

Peter's Food Services recently contacted Axium Process to see if they could provide a solution to the constant blocking of the fine spray nozzles which apply glaze to their range of baked pies and sausage rolls on the browning lines.

Axium Process installed a pilot filter system in one of the lines enabling Peter's Food engineers to monitor and alter the filtration level.

The trial was a success in that it allowed uninterrupted operation thus dramatically reducing costly downtime.

Peter's Foods removed the existing standard wire mesh filters to the lines and installed eight Compact Duplex Pure-Screen100 filter systems custom built to suit their application.

Axium Process' Pure-Screen wedge wire stainless steel filters are easy to maintain, have no moving parts and require no tools for access or cleaning.

The filters, which are of a particularly robust design, can be fabricated to customer specification and includes duplex, multiplex and jacketed filter options.

Standard filter options include a 90 deg, in-line or straight through design as well as the Pure-Screen Compact filter which is designed for use in confined areas or where flow rates are low.

Sample valves or vent valves can be integrated into any of the options as can isolation or back flush valves if required.

The company has also introduced a low cost perforated sheet strainer which is designed as a low pressure drop 'last chance' filter.

It can be used as a simple coarse filter or as a means of protecting pumps and instruments.

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