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For Beer Clarification and Stabilization

Pall’s PROFi Craft System is a crossflow membrane-based solution for beer clarification and stabilization specifically designed as an alternative to traditional Diatomaceous Earth filters used in Craft Breweries. Drawing on the experiences at large scale installations, the PROFi Craft beer stabilizer combines the advantages of an automated process with simple and robust operation flexible to accommodate the variety of beer types and batch sizes required by the breweries.

Description

The PROFi Craft is a fully automated standalone crossflow filter system for small to medium throughputs. The system operates in combination with a centrifuge positioned upstream of the system to reduce the solids load on the membranes resulting in prolonged membrane life, reduced operation cost and beer losses. Beer flow is always in the forward direction eliminating the need for a retentate tank for easier installation and operation. The PROFi filter system is skid mounted and includes:

• Filter housings with membrane inserts
• Instrumentation and connection valves for beer, water, steam and cleaner inlet and outlet
• CIP capability including heat exchanger, dosing pumps and water filter
• Control cabinet and HMI for fully automated operation

The Impact of IoT on Performance and Consumption in Filtration
The implementation of IoT in the beer-making process supports transforming the industry towards sustainable and cost-effective production. With IoT based digitalization in filtration and stabilization , breweries can optimize processes, automate machine learning, and manage data for reporting, traceability, and analysis.

But IoT users have one primary concern in common – data security. Pall values data security as the highest priority and proactively takes all the necessary steps to remain best-in-class. Therefore, it is essential that the latest state-of-the-art technology protects brewery data with penetration tests and code scanning exercises to continuously identify risks and takes the necessary actions to ensure brewery data remains where it is needed.

Data Handling in the Brewery
A modern automated brewery generates and processes a large amount of data during operation. Process control is the primary use of a large portion of this data. A small amount of this goes toward process analysis and optimization.

Pall values data security as the highest priority and proactively takes all the necessary steps to remain best in class. Our goal is to provide an easy means of obtaining quantifiable data for brewing operations. Through Pall BeerIoT, brewers can optimize their operations, improve sustainability and quality initiatives, and improve their OpEx.

PROFi IoT
To gain maximum advantage from the data generated by a PROFi control system Pall implemented IoT-based real-time data management with constant access to valuable information across the organization in user-defined formats. The ability to benchmark against other installations within a brewery group and against the industry average is also available.

Typical examples of digital data analytics are:

• Specific consumption data: water, cleaning agents, electricity, membranes
• Performance data: degree of utilization, efficiency, and downtimes
• Quality data: oxygen uptake, color, original extract and haze
• notifications, alarms and messages

Documentation and service data
Pall IoT provides direct online availability of all system-specific documentation and training documents, spare parts lists, service reports, operating instructions, safety instructions and acceptance reports.