Cleaning system for the beverage industry: automated media dosing

Cleaning systems in the beverage industry are based on detailed coordination of the process steps concerned: with hot or sterile water, with caustic, foam, acid or cold water. Coherently routed supply of these media from the chemicals store to the filler area is assured by the VarioDos Hygiene Centre.
This compactly dimensioned, modularised system is designed to cope with the individualised applications encountered in aseptic filling processes, and controls the media flows using automatically actuated valves plus preprogrammed dosing steps. Depending on the exterior cleaning variant chosen and the hygiene concept selected in the production process (using peracetic acid or hydrogen peroxide), the system ensures accurately scheduled, high-precision dosing of the cleaning media involved. Direct pipe routing to the consumer positions assures high operational dependability and a substantial easing of the operators’ workload. Visualisation of the cleaning parameters involved, e.g. with program flow depiction, display of signal interchange, and the program’s selection options on the touch monitor, enable the system’s status to be checked at will. And, of course, all the preprogrammed parameters of the cleaning media, like temperature or concentration, conductivity values or the fill levels of the media concerned, are meticulously recorded.

With the VarioDos Hygiene Centre, the process steps for a cleaning system in the aseptic filling process used by the beverage industry can be traced for full and dependable coverage.