Check out Flottweg's decanter centrifuge at CBC 2024

April 16, 2024Pretty Much a Press Release

To meet increasing production demands, Flottweg Separation Technology’s decanter centrifuge is helping craft brewers boost yields alongside the already successful (and widely used) separator centrifuge. This equipment will be showcased at Flottweg’s booth #1390 at the Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) & BrewExpo America on April 21-24 in Las Vegas

Separator centrifuges bring speed and efficiency to the filtration process. After fermentation is complete, the beer is pumped to the centrifuge to be clarified. The product enters the centrifuge, spreading out into many thin layers. The centrifugal force expels the solids to the edge of the bowl.

The Soft Shot technology quietly ejects the separated solids which are sent down the drain or to a pump for disposal. Meanwhile, the clarified liquid flows from the disk stack to a pairing disk, where it is discharged from the centrifuge via a centripetal pump to a brite beer tank. From there it is ready for packaging.

Flottweg decanter centrifuges are used to process the hop sludge from the tank bottoms that would otherwise be dumped. Decanter centrifuges are capable of separating liquid from very heavy solids concentrations. The beer is recovered from the solids and returned to the tank while the dewatered waste is sent to a container for disposal.

The process removes large amounts of solids from the wastewater effluent, as well as taking a considerable load off of the downstream equipment while increasing the overall yield of each fermenter. The brewers are left with a tank full of product that has very little solids left and is ready for clarification/filtration.