Continuous machine improvement for a new generation products processing

NiSoCLEAN is an innovative and revolutionary homogenizer design concept, developed by GEA Niro Soavi, the worldwide leader in high pressure homogenization.

This technology is used to make available innovative solutions for intelligent food processing and for more economic use of water and energy resources.

NiSoCLEAN technology has been developed in close cooperation and to meet needs of the more demanding customers from dairy, food, pharmaceutical and chemical sectors, proving that GEA Niro Soavi know-how can master equally high pressure systems and the most stringent hygienic design principles, all in one machine solution.

Under the NiSoCLEAN design concept, GEA Niro Soavi has developed a full range of units, able to operate up to 1500 bar in industrial scale, featuring the most reliable combination of technical excellence to perform under severe high pressure conditions, with the most advanced clean design solutions to allow safe and efficient product processing.

For fine foods processing, GEA Niro Soavi has developed the OpenXFLO™ block concept for high pressure homogenizer, a very good example of application of the NiSoCLEAN design know-how.

The patented OpenXFLO^TM compression block (EPO 2040828) is a specific homogenizer configuration which allows a free fluid flow of liquid products with agglomerated fibers, solids pieces and high viscosity without any accumulation or clogging, thanks to its dead-end free design. The machine can handle inclusions of particles of up to one centimetre in diameter or length, according to their concentration in the liquid phase, type and hardness.

With such a machine design, it is therefore possible to process through the high pressure homogenizer a wider variety of products and at the same time improve the efficiency of CIP by means of flush wetted surfaces and of elimination of dead-ends.

GEA Niro Soavi NiSoCLEAN advanced homogenizer design concept is completed with the use of special gaskets, approved and certified for contact with foodstuff and pharmaceutical products, assembled with specific flush mounted housings combining clean ability with lifetime performance under pressure.

MAIN FEATURES

• Ultra clean design without dead-ends
for economic use of CIP media and water
• Special hygienic pumping valves assembly and flush mounted gaskets
• Free flow of large particles or long fibers without clogging
• Suitable for highly viscous and sticky products
•  Improved product quality by means of low product shear stress in the pumping section, combined with optimal homogenization
• Corrosion resistance materials for a wide variety of products processing
• 3-A approved design, with electro-polished and cGMP versions available
• Variable speed for flexible production capacity