The washing of sugar beets or the soaking of sugar cane are among the first steps in sugar production. ANDRITZ supports you with long-lasting and precise screening and filtration components: punched, drilled, milled, micro-perforated or wedge wire screen components for water, material and raw material processing, as well as various filtration components complete our range.
Whether it is bent screens, flat screens or screen drums for beet washing, ANDRITZ supplies durable compo-nents for beet cleaning. The beets are washed gently due to the burr-free, outwardly conically shaped screen opening.
Flat screen for beet washing
Lime-milk drums are used in sugar production for the cleaning of coarse elements from the lime milk. Due to its stable construction combined with a large open area, ANDRITZ recommends the use of wedge wire screen drums.
Lime milk drum
Vacuum filters are used to remove unwanted contaminants (fibres, sand) from the juice.
Vacuum filters are offered with different perforations in both stainless steel and copper.
Vacuum filter in stainless steel with 0,5 mm perforation
Wedge wire screen drums can be used both for washing the beets, and for the filtration and separation of solid and liquid components in other areas. ANDRITZ supplies wedge wire screen drums for processes with flows from inside to out as well as from outside to in.
Drum filter, filtration direction from outside to in
ANDRITZ also supplies many other filtration elements such as whitener screens and backwash filters. Whitener screens are used to remove the brownish colour of cane sugar, backwash filters are used for water treatment. Both filtration components can be produced as a drilled variant with or without multilayered mesh, or as a wedge wire screen filter.
Whitener screen
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