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Sanitary pumps

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Course content

Food safety and the need of sanitary pumps

What is a sanitary pump?
Types of sanitary pump
• Centrifugal pump
• Liquid-ring pump
• Rotary lobe pump
• Screw (progressive cavity) pump
• Piston and diaphragm pump
Pump selection

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Food safety and the need of sanitary pump

► Food safety by WHO Codex Alimentaris :

Assurance that food will not cause harm to

consumers when it is prepared and/or eaten
according to its intended use.

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Protect your business

► Food safety management

• Food safety core team & networks

► Hygiene
• Hygienic design
• Hygienic risk assessment
• Food contact material
• Food safety charts
► Traceability
• Food products and production parameters

► Quality assurance

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Hygienic design

► Important parameters to consider

− Integration and installation of components
− connection, welding, etc
− CIP pressure & flow, detergents
− product, pressure drop, etc
− Demands on service media
− water, steam, air, etc

► Hygienic requirements
− Hygienic zoning, barrier, etc

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Material in Food contact

► Compliant with the legislation

► Regulation for material in food contact
− Corrosion resistant
− Non-toxic
− Inert to product, etc
− Possible to trace material one step up and down in the
supply chain
− Specification of material documented, certificate of
compliance
► Specific directives & regulations…
− Plastic material
− ceramic material
− rubber, etc

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What is a sanitary pump?

► A sanitary pump has a sanitary design, standard and

accepted practices within the food industry
► Sanitary pumps are used in almost any sanitary
processes to transfer quantities of fluids and/or gases
from on place to another

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Function of a sanitary pump

► A pumps transfers fluids and/or gases from one place

to another within a given time
► A pump transfers fluids and/or gases from one place to
another at a certain pressure to overcome losses in the
system

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Types of sanitary pump

Sanitary Pump

Roto-dynamic Positive displacement

Single – Stage Multi – Stage Rotor Reciprocating

Centrifugal Rotary Lobe Piston

Normal Application
Centrifugal
• Relatively low Diaphragm
viscosity
Screw
• Without air
Liquid-ring
With Air
Viscous/Sensitive
•With air (eg. CIP)
• No particles •High viscousity
• Low viscousity • Gentle treatment
• Self priming
• Soft particles
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Centrifugal pump

► Roto-dynamic type and the most commonly used

sanitary pump
► Fluid enters the pump casing and impeller center and
is forced into a circular movement by the impeller
vanes and centrifugal forces.
► The fluid thus leaves the casing with increased
pressure and velocity.

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Components of a standard centrifugal pump

304
Adaptor Back plate 316L

Impeller

Pump shaft
Rotating
mechanical shaft
seal Stationary mechanical
shaft seal
Pump casing
NBR, EPDM, FPM, PTFE

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Advantages of LKH centrifugal pumps

► Premium Centrifugal Pump Range

► Gentle product treatment
► Identical shaft seal used across the range (LKH-5 - 60)
► Hygienic design for effective CIP
► Easy simple maintenance
► Simplicity and cost saving in spare parts stock
► Low power consumption
► Low noise levels
► Low NPSH requirements means minimum risk of
cavitation Insulated Shroud
► Easy conversion from single to flushed or double
mechanical shaft seal
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Limitation and application of centrifugal pump

► A standard pump for most application has a max.

system pressure of 10bar
► Typically use for low-viscosity, non-particular and non-
aerated fluids like:
− CIP
− Cream Drinking Yoghurt
Tank
− Juice
− Milk
− Water

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Liquid ring pump

► A liquid-ring pump is a roto-dynamic Type, typically

used for aerated fluids such as CIP return where there
is a risk of air entering the suction line
► Typically used for CIP return
► The fluid should be low viscosity and non-particulate

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Principle of liquid ring pump

Discharge Suction

b
Decreasing Depth

Increasing Depth
Full Depth
External
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Components of a liquid ring pump

External
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Rotary lobe pump
► Positive displacement pump type, typically used
where a centrifugal pump is not suitable. This
includes gentle transfer & product with solid.

► Two rotors counter-rotate within the pump casing

and create a partial vacuum at the inlet, which sucks
in fluid.

► The fluid is transferred (displaced) through the pump

in the cavities formed between rotors and pump
casing.

External
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Rotary lobe pump: pumping action

► Pumps can run in both directions and direction of flow can also
change

Horizontal Ports Vertical Ports

External
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Components of a rotary lobe pump

Torque Lock Timing

Taper Roller Bearing Gear
Rotorcase

Rotors
Drive
Rotor nut “O” Shaft
Ring
Gearbox
Pump Head
Separated From
Gearbox
Mounting
Foot

Rotor Nuts Product

Front Seal
Cover

External
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Rotary lobe pump
► Suitable for viscous, particulate and shear-sensitive fluids, such as
stirred yoghurt, ketchup, yeast, chili & tomato sauce and Food Juice

► Concentrates

Tomato
pulp
tank

External
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Screw pump

► Positive displacement pump type, typically used where

a centrifugal is not suitable.
► This includes good solids handling, metering ability &
good suction lift.
► A steel rotor rotates inside a rubber stator, which has a
double-threaded screw shaped hollow core.
► The fluid is transferred through the pump in the cavities
formed between rotor and stator during rotor rotation.

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Components of a screw pump

Flow In

Frame
Drive
Shaft
Rotor
Bearing

Shaft seal
Bushing

Flow
Stator out

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Screw pump

► Suitable for viscous, particulate and shear-sensitive

fluids, such as:
− Cream
− Chocolate
− Eggs
− Toothpaste
− Yeast
− Chili & tomato sauce
− Food Juice Concentrates

External
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Piston and diaphragm pump

► Piston & Diaphragm pump are Positive displacement

Pump types. Typically used in dry running, Handling of
particulate, abrasive fluids and suitable for hazardous
environments.

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Piston pump

► A piston inside a cylinder moves forwards and

backwards, driven by a double action reciprocating air
motor.
► The piston pulls fluid in at the inlet when moving back
from the outlet and displaces fluid to the outlet when
moving forwards.

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Components of a piston pump

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Diaphragm pump

► Two diaphragms inside two casings (chambers) move

left and right, driven by a double-acting reciprocating
air piston system.
► Intake and displacement in each chamber are
controlled by a ball valve system in each chamber.

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Diaphragm pump

► Piston movement to one side will push this diaphragm,

empty the chamber and displace fluid to the outlet. The
other diaphragm will simultaneously be pulled and fill
the other chamber with fluid that is sucked in from the
inlet.
► The operation then reverses.

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Components of a diaphragm pump

Discharge Manifold Upper Ball Valve

Open during discharge
of pumped product
Upper Ball Valve
Closed during intake
of pumped product Pneumatic Control Valve

Diaphragm
Air Chamber

Air Exhaust

Lower Ball Valve

Open during Lower Ball Valve
intake of pumped Closed during discharge of
product pumped product

Suction Manifold

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Piston and diaphragm pump

► Typically suitable for powders and high-viscous,

particulate and abrasive fluids, such as:
− Chocolate
− Egg
− Melted cheese
− Shampoo Soya
− Toothpaste Sauce
Tank

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Selection of pump

► Successful pump operation very much depends on

correct pump selection.
► It is important to get all necessary process and site
data, as well as customer preferences, to ensure
correct pump selection.
− Determine the process type
− Collect the fluid type
− Collect the performance /site data
− Pump selection/ configuration

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Guidelines for selection of pump

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