Hygienic Process Design & Engineering
When GEA Liquid Processing designs a process solution, we always stick
to our religion – hygienic design.
Designing a system which is able to move media from A to B is simple. When
it comes to the question of how the plant is cleaned however, design and
engineering often become a challenge. If you add today’s requirements
as to line efficiency and low product waste, system design and
engineering suddenly become a work of art requiring years of practical design
experience, cutting-edge processing components and in-depth knowledge of
the media in question and the processes involved.
Based on the customer-defined User Requirement Specification (URS), our team
of Project Engineers designs the required processing system. The calculated
mass balances and production diagrams enable the Project Engineers to prepare
Process & Instrument Diagrams (P&IDs) which are subject to client
approval (Design Freeze). Subsequently, a Process Description can be
prepared based on the URS and the frozen P&IDs. The Process
Description is used as a basis for the preparation of the Functional
Design Specification (FDS) produced by our Software Engineering team.
GEA Liquid Processing uses some of the most modern design and
engineering tools available on the market. Our P&I Diagrams
are prepared in Bentley AutoPLANT CAE system. The Bentley system can
automatically generate information and easily enable design
changes, even at a late stage in the project.
GEA Liquid
Processing can generate 3D models of the designed processing system
to be used in the validation stage along with the customer as well
as during the installation phase. This ensures an optimum layout
in the processing hall and perfect integration into existing processing
equipment.