The excellent piping solution for quality-oriented customers
GEA ECO-MATRIX®
GEA ECO-MATRIX® is a fully automatic fixed piping system for process tanks in the beverage industry. It provides enhanced product quality and offers significant cost saving opportunities.
The GEA ECO-MATRIX® piping system provides optimum cleaning conditions, thanks to the safe separation of the tank and pipe cleaning regimes. All process lines are directly connected to a compact vertical tank outlet header pipe. There are no dead ends or pockets. The fully automatic piping system ensures fail-safe operation and minimized product losses. GEA ECO-MATRIX® uses GEA’s EHEDG certified VARIVENT® radial sealing double-seat valves with fully drainable safety chamber and integrated double-acting lifting actuator for valve seat cleaning. Their fixed housing connections, welded housings and seat rings mean no seals at the seat ring and thus reduced maintenance.
Efficient, fully automatic fixed piping system for process tanks
- Safety: State-of-the-art mixproof valve technology ensures utmost product safety
- Efficiency: Well-engineered solution provides enhanced product quality and offers significant cost saving opportunities
- Flexibility: Space-saving, expandable and modular system ensures flexibility and easy accessibility
- Reliability: A multitude of installations around the world provides proof of its capabilities, performance and reliability
Features
The use of the ECO-MATRIX® piping system enhances product quality and offers significant cost savings:
- The vertical installation enables a well-balanced heat and mass transfer and thus provides both a homogenous distribution of substances and a uniform product temperature
- Ensuring the optimum growth conditions for yeasts in the header prevents the cell autolysis that would cause a significant increase in pH
- Enhanced product taste and increased foam stability by eliminating the other negative effects of yeast autolysis (such as proteinase A excretion)
- The omission of horizontal tank outlets reduces the risk of insufficient cleaning and recontamination when linked to the tank’s cold CIP process
- ECO-MATRIX® double-seat valves are equipped with a lifting actuator that enables individual lifting of a single valve disk during cleaning of the pipe or the tank
- The cleaning media passes the seal of the lifted valve disc, cleans the safety chamber and then flows through the leakage outlet into the periphery. This way, it is possible to clean all product-contact surfaces of the valve disk seals
- A special rinse valve ensures complete draining of the safety chamber – no residual cleaning media or product can remain
ECO-MATRIX and VARIVENT are registered as a trademark in several countries worldwide.
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