Hygienic Magnetic Flow Meters for Beer

In the food and beverage industry, accurate control of production processes and cost optimization are always core challenges. Especially in the beer brewing process, from the temporary storage of raw materials, fermentation to the whole process of filling, the accuracy of flow monitoring directly affects product quality, capacity efficiency and food safety.

Based on Faraday's Law of Electromagnetic Induction, the Hygienic Magnetic Flow Meter developed by ARTang Hangzhou provides an innovative solution for companies to realize accurate monitoring and production stability under limited budgets, with excellent performance that is not affected by pressure, density, temperature and viscosity.

Hygienic magnetic flow meter Applications

Wuhan Fresh Beer XXXX Co., Ltd. was founded in 2022, as an innovative representative of the domestic fresh beer industry, it adheres to the concept of “Fresh Brewing”, strictly follows the national standard of “Fresh Beer”, rejects the pasteurization process, and devotes itself to preserving the original flavor and nutrients of the beer with fresh yeast. It is committed to preserving the original flavor and nutrition of beer with fresh yeast. This process puts high demands on the microbiological control and process stability of the production process, especially the accuracy of the flow monitoring becomes a key link.

In order to realize the process parameter monitoring, the brewery introduced ARTang Aimag H hygienic magnetic flow meter to monitor and record the medium flow rate; whether it is the incoming material into the tank storage process, or the pipeline of the beer sent to the filling line, or the fermentation, filtration, cleaning process of yeast recovery, beer centrifugal separation, CIP cleaning. These steps are all real-time monitoring of the flow rate of conductive liquid media in the pipeline, and provide the corresponding alarm function to help factories find process abnormalities in a timely manner.

Site based on the corresponding process of the pipeline caliber, respectively, to provide DN40, DN50, DN65 and DN100 caliber Hygienic magnetic flow meter; based on the site measurement environment, media, model personalized selection, so that the flow meter in the reference working conditions to achieve flow monitoring.

Advantages of Sanitary Food Beverage Electromagnetic Flowmeter

• Accurate monitoring, stable production:

In response to the fluctuation of incoming materials, filling accuracy and other challenges, ARTang Hygienic magnetic flow meter to achieve ±0.5% measurement accuracy (optional 0.2%), real-time tracking of flow data and triggering anomalies in the alarm, to avoid overflowing tanks or uneven filling volume, to protect the consistency of the product and the continuity of production. Various lining and electrode options: the configuration can be selected according to the actual situation, and the lining is resistant to media corrosion, solid media abrasion and other diversified situations.

• flexible adaptation, durable and reliable:

Provide PTFE, PFA and other lining materials, as well as 316L stainless steel, Hastelloy and other electrode options, comfortable to deal with yeast suspension wear, CIP detergent corrosion, reduce equipment maintenance frequency, reduce downtime costs.

• hygienic design, no worry about compliance:

The full-flow, dead-end-free structure meets food-grade hygiene standards, eliminating the need for additional cleaning inputs and safeguarding food safety within budget, while optimizing production capacity through data-driven optimization and eliminating production interruptions due to abnormal flow rates.

Customer Challenges

Flow monitoring presents customers with complex and varied challenges across a range of key processes in beer production:

• Accurate monitoring of flow rates is critical when incoming materials are being staged. Flow characteristics vary significantly depending on the type of liquid raw material, and erratic flow can lead to tank overflow or underfill, disrupting the production rhythm. At the same time, the raw materials may contain impurities, easy to wear and clog the flow monitoring equipment, maintenance costs and difficulties have risen sharply;

• Beer pipeline to the filling line, flow monitoring accuracy is directly related to product quality. Filling on the flow consistency requirements are stringent, a slight deviation will cause uneven filling volume, affecting the brand reputation. The intricate layout of the pipeline and the prominent signal interference problem seriously affect the monitoring accuracy.

• During fermentation, filtration and cleaning, the concentration and activity of yeast during yeast recovery will interfere with the accuracy of flow monitoring and affect the recovery efficiency and yeast quality. Beer centrifugal separation, high-speed operation produces a complex fluid state, so that the flow measurement is doubly difficult. CIP cleaning, the chemical properties of various cleaning agents and changing temperature and pressure conditions, the corrosion resistance and stability of the monitoring equipment is a great test, but also have to take into account the cleaning flow requirements of different equipment, to avoid poor cleaning results or over-cleaning occurs.

Wuhan Fresh Beer XXXX Company, in the process of production optimization, joined hands with Hangzhou ARTang to carry out an intelligent flow monitoring upgrade project, deploying 27 sets of Aimag H-type Hygienic magnetic flow meters to cover the key nodes of the whole chain from raw material temporary storage to filling and delivery. As a partner focusing on flow monitoring solutions for the food and beverage industry, ARTang, with a deep understanding of the beer brewing process, customized the configuration of DN40-DN100 full caliber flow meters, accurately matching the lining and electrode materials for different media characteristics to ensure the stable operation of the equipment under complex working conditions.

Through this cooperation, ARTang not only helps the customer to realize real-time accurate monitoring of conductive liquid media flow, but also displays the flow data with real-time status alarms such as empty pipe and excitation, which helps the customer to greatly reduce the response time of production abnormality.

After the implementation of the project, the fresh beer factory has achieved a reduction in annual comprehensive cost and a significant increase in the reliability and intelligence level of the production process while guaranteeing the fresh beer's fresh quality, making it a benchmark case for ARTang to drive capacity optimization with accurate measurement in the food and beverage industry.