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Process Engineering

With 35 years of expertise in the food and beverage industry, Heathedge possesses the essential knowledge to optimize your processes.
In addition to efficient processes, effective automation is key to ensuring product consistency and minimizing losses.
Execution is just as critical as design, and Heathedge supports you in ensuring that subcontractors follow best practices, such as installing self-draining pipes and eliminating dead ends.

Working Method

Heathedge can provide all information and calculations to implement a new installation or modify your existing plant.
The general way of working consists of the following steps:

  1. Determining the requirements of the new installation/modification
  2. Drawing a P&ID
  3. Dimensioning all piping and components, such as regulating valves, pumps, …
  4. Requesting quotes of the desired brands on your behalf
  5. Offering a 3D model of the entire installation and required utilities
  6. Specifying electrical cabinets
  7. Introducing subcontractors for welding and cabling
  8. Introducing highly qualified programmers
  9. Start-up of the installation/modification

CIP Station

Whatever you produce, you need to clean your installations and pipes. Our tailor-made CIP-station concept and management is state-of-the-art and can be equipped with a heat recovery system.
With our in-line dosing of chemicals, a low amount of chemicals is required.
Depending on the available footprint, tanks can be installed next to or on top of the CIP-station.

Flash Pasteurizer

Pasteurizing your product without altering its flavour is a must.
Our tailor-made Flash Pasteurizer concept is state-of-the-art and recovers the heat to use as preheating.
In combination with a coupling lantern on the source-side, and depending on the state of the recipient (e.g. bottle filler), the Flash Pasteurizer can go in circulation or hibernation mode.
Via measurement the transition between water and product is detected, so few losses are made with the push-in of your product.
With anticipation of growth of your production, the installation is executed in such manner that your installation can easily be upgraded at low cost.

CO2 Carbonizer

Via in-line measurement, the right amount of CO2 is dosed on the right moment. It is essential that the CO2 is dissolved in the liquid, and not just added.
Heathedge has a self-designed in-line CO2 mixer, which is tailor made to your needs. This mixer is designed in such manner that it can be easily cleaned and upgraded.

Yeast Propagation

The right type of yeast for the right end result. To have consistency in your product, it is advisable to culture your own yeast.
Heathedge’s yeast propagator is tailor-made and state-of-the-art. Thanks to the right amount of oxygen and sugar dosing, temperature regulation and liquid circulation, the perfect habitat for yeast propagation has been created.

In-Line Dosing

Regardless of what you need to dose, it’s better to do it in-line. No need of tanks, which have high costs, take a lot of space and are more difficult to clean.
Via precise measurements, the right amount is dosed on the right moment.
Heathedge has expertise in dosing gas, liquid and solids. Depending on the product, it had to be preheated and/or mixed after dosing.
Some common products are CO2, sugar, yeast and micro-dosing of specific required components.