GEA Tuchenhagen completes the VESTA® Sterile Valve product portfolio
GEA Tuchenhagen has completed its VESTA® Sterile Valve series with various
tank-bottom valve variants. This provides the users with a full range of solutions in sensitive processes where high sterile requirements must be fulfilled.
VESTA® Sterile Valves – the innovative concept of single-seat valves with PTFE bellows – offers process engineering and economic advantages. This valve series was developed specifially for the pharmaceutical, food, cosmetics and biotechnology markets.
The core element is the PTFE bellows sealing element, the sealing system is patented
and provides a long service life.
Process reliability and the highest product quality are basic requirements in sterile applications. Sterile valves play an important role when it comes to sealing the process interior hermetically and safely against the outside atmosphere.
In addition, the plants must be CIP/SIP compatible. Successful and repeatable cleaning results can only be achieved when specific design criteria are met. Apart from the quality of the product contact surface finishes, geometry has a significant influence.
One of the major goals achieved was to provide proof of cleanability. Modern development tools – such as flow simulation – were used, so that inferences with respect to cleaning efficiency could be drawn at the early stages of development.
Subsequent test runs produced excellent cleaning results, validating the inferences from the design stage. With this achieved, we submitted the valves for EHEDG testing at an independent institute. The corresponding expert report and the EHEDG certificate are available.
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The VESTA® valve program includes shut-off, tank-bottom and sampling valves in different housing variants as well as valve blocks and distribution systems in the nominal widths DN 10 – DN 100, available for manual operation,
with NC/NO pneumatic actuators made of synthetic material or stainless steel
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See more details of our VESTA® sterile valve series here!
Reduce your costs and save the environment
with new VARIPURE cleaners by GEA Tuchenhagen
By using the new VARIPURE cleaners for tank and vessel cleaning you can reduce your investment expenses and additionally protect the environment. These cleaners are carefully designed and need a minimum of cleaning media, they achieve an optimal cleaning result by means of a strong, mechanical spray pattern.
Your saving and environment protection are obvious: using a drastically reduced volume of cleaning media also only little volumes of chemicals are needed. And on top you need less energy for the heating within the cleaning operation. Also your needed flow pumps can be reduced in its size as well as the necessary piping.
All these arrangements together lead to a minimum of costs and less energy consumption as usual – and the today’s expensive waste water volume will reduced noticeable.
GEA Tuchenhagen offers a comprehensive program of different VARIPURE cleaners – static, rotating and orbital cleaners, just fine tuned for their task.
The range of our cleaners can execute tank diameters of up to 27 m, the working pressure varies from 0.5 up to 90 bar, and a flow rate of 0.5 up to 67 m³/h can be accomplished.
See more details of our VARIPURE orbital cleaners here!
Published/Reviewed: 2nd May 2010
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Watch also the video review of TechnoPharm
where partly the GEA Group Exhibition Stand is to be seen. |