White Paper: Transforming starch processes with automatic pressure filters
Mike Edwards
Features Metso Outotec
The Metso Outotec Larox PF filter has transformed many industrial processes, for example in fine chemicals, pigments, modified starch, and pharmaceutical fermentation broth. Automatic pressure filters completely transform modified starch production processes. By replacing centrifugal separators with advanced pressure filtration technology, they deliver dramatically superior results — with drier cake and clearer filtrate — while consuming significantly less wash water.
These results translate into significant business benefits and unlock process capacity in parts that may be located far away from the filter such as drying and waste handling.
Furthermore, the quality of the starch produced is superior in terms of washing results and, crucially, consistency.
Metso Outotec Larox PF filter system.
This white paper compares centrifugal separators with Metso Outotec Larox pressure filter technology and its potential impact on modified starch processes, demonstrating the increases in production as well as the savings in water, energy, and waste-treatment costs that they enable.
The paper is based on real data from one of more than 60 installations where Larox PF Filters are currently operating.
This white paper is courtesy Metso Outotec.
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