Apparatus and process for stabilizing a liquid, in particular beer
AssigneeKHS GmbH
InventorsUlrich Sander, Andreas Zeller
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Abstract
An apparatus for stabilizing liquid includes first and second filters, intermediate storage that stores a regenerable stabilizing agent, an inlet line supplying unstabilized liquid and connected to both filters and to the intermediate storage, and a switchable interconnection configured for, immediately after regeneration and cleaning of the first or second filter, selectively causing the one of the first filter unit and the second filter unit to be upstream of an other of the first filter unit and the second filter unit. The first filter unit and the second filter unit are configured to run in different operational phases that are offset in time from one another.
Claims18
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An apparatus for stabilizing liquid, said apparatus comprising a first filter unit, a second filter unit, an intermediate storage unit, an inlet line, and a switchable interconnection configured for, immediately after regeneration and cleaning of one of said first filter unit and said second filter unit, selectively causing said one of said first filter unit and said second filter unit to be upstream of an other of said first filter unit and said second filter unit, wherein said intermediate storage unit stores a regenerable stabilizing agent, wherein said inlet line supplies unstabilized liquid, wherein said inlet line is connected to said first filter unit, wherein said inlet line is connected to said second filter unit, wherein said inlet line is connected to said intermediate storage unit, wherein said stabilizing agentis first added to said unstabilized liquid wherein said unstabilized liquid, to which has been added stabilization agent, is added to said first filter unit, and wherein said first filter unit and said second filter unit are configured to run in different operational phases that are offset in time from one another.
A method for stabilizing liquid, said method comprising adding stabilizing agent_to said liquid, supplying said liquid, to which said stabilizing agent_has been added, to one of a first filter unit and a second filter unit to stabilize said liquid and to remove said stabilizing agentfrom said liquid, operating said first and second filter units in different operation phases that are offset in time from one another, and supplying said liquid, to which said stabilizing agent has been added, to each filter unit immediately after a regeneration-and-cleaning phase thereof.
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