Fully automatic design of the traditional tubular bowl centrifuge has the ability to recover accumulated solids within a completely isolated environment
The model APD centrifuge from Celeros is described as a fully automatic design of the traditional tubular bowl centrifuge with the ability to recover accumulated solids within a completely isolated environment.
The design is suitable for a large range of solid-liquid separations common in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, chemical, and related industries.
The APD centrifuge is manufactured in bowl diameters from 75mm to 375mm with flow capacities up to 190 litres per minute.
Key features of the centrifuge include a separation bowl achieving speeds that generate up to 20,000g, a piston and shaft that discharge the accumulated solids from within the bowl, an AC variable frequency electric drive with dynamic braking, and PLC based controls.
Hermetic processing is maintained via a sealed containment case with a compartment and discharge connections for centrate and residual bowl liquid recovery, and a solids valve with an actuator that permits discharge of the solids into a sealed vessel.
The equipment can be equipped with automatic CIP and SIP systems.
Total solids discharge is achieved without operator intervention, and without exposure to the process environment.
There are no internal conical disks that can plug up, no bowl discharge ports to plug or wear, and no bowl baffles to impede solids discharge or liquid drainage.
The model APD centrifuges are robust in design and are suitable for separation applications common to the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and related chemical manufacturing industries, says Celeros.
Processing with the APD ensures low shear, high efficiency recovery and excellent centrate clarity.
Specific applications include vaccines, antibiotics, mammalian cells, bacterial cells, enzymes, blood plasma, microbial processing, (lysates, inclusion bodies, E coli).
