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Technology news 14 Filtration+Separation March/April 2013 Ballast water treatment system is approved Eco filter solves dairy problem A self cleaning filter from Russell Finex has been selected to meet a demanding application in the Italian food industry. Consorzio Latterie Virgilio is an Italian consortium that is associated with 70 dairies and more than 2,000 farmers. Working with the members of the consortium, the company primarily focuses on the production of dairy products, including butter, fresh cream and aged cheeses. However, The Self-Cleaning Russell Eco Filter. with increasing uses for animal fat, the company recognised the opportunity to expand its product range. Sourcing fat from its slaughter plant, the company sought to produce two key animal fat by-products – an animal fat spread (an Italian delicacy) and biodiesel. The processing of these animal fat by-products required a new processing line to be built, and therefore Virgilio approached a well known engineering house to provide a processing solution. The proposed system required the meat fat to be minced before it is steam heated into a liquid form at just under 100°C. As the meat fat contains skins and cartilages that are difficult to break down, the liquid product is then fed to a filtration system to remove any oversize contamination. The engineering house selected the Self-Cleaning Russell Eco Filter ® for this stage of the process. Russell Finex says that the design of the Self-Cleaning Russell Eco Filter ® ensures that material passes through the filter screen whilst the screen is automatically Third generation T-Rack introduced The European UV water treatment specialist, BIO-UV, is now type-approved for its BIO- SEA ® Ballast Water Treatment System. BIO-UV adds that it went beyond the International Maritime Organization (IMO) requirements for Ballast Water Treatment (BWTS). These included the land tests where various and numerous filtration cycles were required, as well as the on-board testing for two different vessels (one on board the CMA-CGM with 1000 m 3 /h, the other on board the Marfret with 500 m 3 /h). This success for BIO-UV represents almost three years of work and €3 million in research and development. BIO-SEA by BIO-UV Ballast Water Treatment Systems combines mechanical filtration and UV disinfection. BIO-SEA works without chemical products and provides two filtration options, both of which are type approved. The whole certification process has been monitored by Bureau Veritas. BIO-UV should obtain other equivalent type-approvals soon, such as DNV, Lloyd’s and ABS. Environmental testing (temperature, humidity, vibration, inclination, power, variation, and failure, EMC) was successfully performed in 2011, as well as land-based tests at DHI facility in Denmark. The results exceeded IMO requirements. In partnership with CMA-CGM, and Marfret, in order to test the BIO-SEA system in different water qualities, BIO-UV carried out its shipboard testing in 2012 on two container ships equipped with different filters, at 1000 and 500 m 3 /h and on different trade routes (Korea/China/Indonesia and North Europe/America/Australia). www.ballast-water-treatment.com cleaned using a rotating wiper inside the element. “The Eco Filter wiper system works on a continuous basis, cleaning the filter element surface at all times, providing a consistent throughput rate and differential pressure” states Andrea Bozzellini, Area Responsible. The units were customised to meet the exact requirements of the application. As the filter was required to remove oversize above 100 micron which is then returned to the pulverizer for rework, the oversize outlet was reduced in size from 2 inches to 1 inch and attached to a pump. The pump constantly feeds the oversize back into the main line. Due to the nature of the product being processed, the pipework needed to be cleaned on a regular basis. Therefore, a second Russell Eco Filter ® was supplied, acting as a Clean-in-Place system circulating water with cleaning solution around the pipework. www.russellfinex.com inge GmbH, the provider of ultrafiltration technology for water filtration, has launched the third generation of its ultrafiltration racks, T-Rack ® 3.0. Designed for optimum pressure resistance, inge GmbH says that these new racks open up an even wider range of potential applications. The membrane surface area of each T-Rack ® 3.0 module has been increased to 70 m 2 , which gives the racks an even higher capacity than previous models. The new design of the racks also enables more modules to be packed into the same space, significantly increasing the capacity of the overall system while maintaining the same compact footprint. According to the company, its high corrosion resistance makes the new T-Rack ® 3.0 a particularly good choice for larger facilities, for example as a pre-treatment stage for seawater desalination or wastewater reuse. “We carefully tailor our product development to the needs of our customers,” says Dr. Peter Berg, chief technology officer at inge ® .” The market is constantly seeking solutions that offer greater flexibility and higher capacity, so that is the challenge we have to meet.” In the design, the header pipes are integrated in the module end caps and welded to the modules. This allows high- pressure resistance to enable a broader range of applications, an ultra-compact design which offers a further 15% reduction in footprint size compared to previous models, and a huge increase in capacity over previous racks due to an additional increase in the membrane area of each module. In addition, the developers have made the rack system extremely flexible by basing it on standardised components, enabling customers to tailor the ultrafiltration system to their individual requirements and easily expand the system as their needs change. Depending on the required system size and treatment capacity, inge ® can supply configurations with either two or four rows of modules – and customers can still run each individual filtration line in a rack independently. www.inge.ag

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Technology news14

Filtration+Separation March/April 2013

Ballast water treatment system is approved

Eco filter solves dairy problemA self cleaning filter from Russell Finex has been selected to meet a demanding application in the Italian food industry.

Consorzio Latterie Virgilio is an Italian consortium that is associated with 70 dairies and more than 2,000 farmers. Working with the members of the consortium, the company primarily focuses on the production of dairy products, including butter, fresh cream and aged cheeses. However,

The Self-Cleaning Russell Eco Filter.

with increasing uses for animal fat, the company recognised the opportunity to expand its product range. Sourcing fat from its slaughter plant, the company sought to produce two key animal fat by-products – an animal fat spread (an Italian delicacy) and biodiesel.

The processing of these animal fat by-products required a new processing line to be built, and therefore Virgilio approached a well known engineering house to provide a processing solution. The proposed system required the meat fat to be minced before it is steam heated into a liquid form at just under 100°C. As the meat fat contains skins and cartilages that are difficult to break down, the liquid product is then fed to a filtration system to remove any oversize contamination. The engineering house selected the Self-Cleaning Russell Eco Filter® for this stage of the process.

Russell Finex says that the design of the Self-Cleaning Russell Eco Filter® ensures that material passes through the filter screen whilst the screen is automatically

Third generation T-Rack introduced

The European UV water treatment specialist, BIO-UV, is now type-approved for its BIO-SEA® Ballast Water Treatment System.

BIO-UV adds that it went beyond the International Maritime Organization (IMO) requirements for Ballast Water Treatment (BWTS). These included the land tests where various and numerous filtration cycles were required, as well as the on-board testing for two different vessels (one on board the CMA-CGM with 1000 m3/h, the other on board the Marfret with 500 m3/h). This success for BIO-UV represents almost three years of work and €3 million in research and development.

BIO-SEA by BIO-UV Ballast Water Treatment Systems combines mechanical filtration and UV disinfection. BIO-SEA works without chemical products and provides two filtration options, both of which are type approved.

The whole certification process has been monitored by Bureau Veritas. BIO-UV should obtain other equivalent type-approvals soon, such as DNV, Lloyd’s and ABS.

Environmental testing (temperature, humidity, vibration, inclination, power, variation, and failure, EMC) was successfully performed in 2011, as well as land-based tests at DHI facility in Denmark. The results exceeded IMO requirements.

In partnership with CMA-CGM, and Marfret, in order to test the BIO-SEA system in different water qualities, BIO-UV carried out its shipboard testing in 2012 on two container ships equipped with different filters, at 1000 and 500 m3/h and on different trade routes (Korea/China/Indonesia and North Europe/America/Australia).

www.ballast-water-treatment.com

cleaned using a rotating wiper inside the element.

“The Eco Filter wiper system works on a continuous basis, cleaning the filter element surface at all times, providing a consistent throughput rate and differential pressure” states Andrea Bozzellini, Area Responsible.

The units were customised to meet the exact requirements of the application. As the filter was required to remove oversize above 100 micron which is then returned to the pulverizer for rework, the oversize outlet was reduced in size from 2 inches to 1 inch and attached to a pump. The pump constantly feeds the oversize back into the main line.

Due to the nature of the product being processed, the pipework needed to be cleaned on a regular basis. Therefore, a second Russell Eco Filter® was supplied, acting as a Clean-in-Place system circulating water with cleaning solution around the pipework.

www.russellfinex.com

inge GmbH, the provider of ultrafiltration technology for water filtration, has launched the third generation of its ultrafiltration racks, T-Rack® 3.0.

Designed for optimum pressure resistance, inge GmbH says that these new racks open up an even wider range of potential applications. The membrane surface area of each T-Rack® 3.0 module has been increased to 70 m2, which gives the racks an even higher capacity than previous models.

The new design of the racks also enables more modules to be packed into the same space, significantly increasing the capacity of the overall system while maintaining the same compact footprint. According to

the company, its high corrosion resistance makes the new T-Rack® 3.0 a particularly good choice for larger facilities, for example as a pre-treatment stage for seawater desalination or wastewater reuse.

“We carefully tailor our product development to the needs of our customers,” says Dr. Peter Berg, chief technology officer at inge®.” The market is constantly seeking solutions that offer greater flexibility and higher capacity, so that is the challenge we have to meet.”

In the design, the header pipes are integrated in the module end caps and welded to the modules. This allows high-pressure resistance to enable a broader range of applications, an ultra-compact design which

offers a further 15% reduction in footprint size compared to previous models, and a huge increase in capacity over previous racks due to an additional increase in the membrane area of each module. In addition, the developers have made the rack system extremely flexible by basing it on standardised components, enabling customers to tailor the ultrafiltration system to their individual requirements and easily expand the system as their needs change. Depending on the required system size and treatment capacity, inge® can supply configurations with either two or four rows of modules – and customers can still run each individual filtration line in a rack independently.

www.inge.ag

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