Customized Two In One Sieving And Filtration Solution For Bakery

Strict regulations within the food industry cause companies to review their processes and ensure the quality of their food products. A leading bakery found inefficiencies in their food processing line and sought a solution.

In the production of dough-based products, the ingredients are boiled before being baked. During this process, excess materials such as dough, maize grit and sesame seeds drop into the pre-bake water, causing contamination and affecting the quality of the water. The water tank then needed to be manually cleaned and replenished, resulting in high labor costs and downtime, and increased consumption of water. The contaminated water would then be discharged to an effluent plant. This created further problems as the water containing the discharge solids would ferment and expand causing blockages in the pipes connected to the effluent plant.

The bakery approached Russell Finex for an industrial screening solution. Drawing upon 80 years of experience in wet and dry material separation, Russell Finex audited the bakery’s manufacturing process and provide an efficient high quality solution to minimize contamination of the pre-bake water. This was achieved in two stages.

The first stage was to install a fully automated Self-Cleaning Russell Eco Filter® after the water tank to continuously remove contamination and re-circulate the pre-bake water. This industrial filter for liquids recirculates the clean water back into the pre-bake water tank, with any contamination being discharged into the effluent plant.

The second stage of the separation process focused on eliminating the blockage of pipes caused by the solids fermenting in the pipework. The Russell Compact Sieve® vibrating safety screen was fitted directly after the Self-Cleaning Russell Eco Filter®. When the contamination from the water tank is ejected from the Self-Cleaning Russell Eco Filter®, it is fed directly into a 400mm diameter Russell Compact Sieve® where water and debris are separated further.

This allowed the bakery to dispose of a large percentage of solids to landfill with the remaining liquid being sent to the effluent plant for treatment prior to final disposal in the drain.

With their unique customized two-stage filter-sieve combination, the bakery was able to achieve their objectives to improve the efficiencies of their production process, increasing product quality, reducing costs, and increasing overall efficiencies. Find out more by reading the full article, or contact Russell Finex today.

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