Flender gear units for food and beverage
Lauter tuns are used in breweries to separate mash from wort. A raking machine inside the tun rakes grist and malt or removes the spent grains, depending on the direction of rotation.
The height of the raking machine can be varied either electrically or hydraulically according to the process. Flender gear units for food and beverage for lauter tuns offer a solution with integrated height adjusting mechanism for this purpose. The height can even be altered under load. Precise technology is crucial when the fluids are separated from the solids in the mash. The extract should remain in the process. Reliable drives that ensure the agitation of the cutter bar in high precision increase the productivity and help to keep the high quality requirements for the product. Flender gear units for lauter tuns have been optimized for this special application.
The height adjustment of the raking machine is realized either electrically or hydraulically in accordance to the process. FLENDER offers special gear units with integrated height adjustment. The height can be changed even under load.
Flender gear units for lauter tuns
Your benefits at a glance
High operational reliability
Low noise emissions
High efficiency
Forced lubrication by means of flanged-on pump
Stronger bearings to absorb axial loads
Height-adjustable output shaft
Coupling flange
Applications
breweries
Reactors
The term “reactor” is used in the chemical industry to refer to special apparatus (e.g. a stirred tank reactor) in which educts are reacted to obtain a desired product.
The reactors for this kind of application are designed to meet very high process and safety standards.
Powders and suspensions such as pastes, doughs etc. are dried in a mixer-dryer-reactor. The drying process that takes place inside the reactor is often required to be rapid yet simultaneously gentle on the product.
Flender gear units for food and beverage and reactors therefore have a very high efficiency and produce only minimal vibration and noise. It should also be possible to monitor the complete gear unit.
Flender gear units for reactors
Your benefits at a glance
High efficiency
Minimal vibration
Low noise level
Dip lubrication
Complete drive solution mounted on a baseframe, comprising:
– Motor
– Input coupling (FLUDEX)
– Gear unit, incl. monitors
– Gear coupling on output side
Applications
Drying / mixing chemical substances as well as food products of all kinds
Agitators
Agitators and agitator tanks are used in chemical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food processing applications.
The diversity of the application requirements and the media employed necessitate customized plant designs.
Flender gear units for food and beverage and agitators are normally vertically mounted to the agitator tank. In addition to transmitting torque, it also absorbs the axial and radial loads that occur as a result of the application’s specification. Flender gear units for agitators drives have a reinforced output shaft and rolling-contact bearings for this purpose.
Even in special cases with very high axial loads, FLENDER can supply gear unit solutions with an additional thrust bearings.
Flender gear units for agitators
Your benefits at a glance
High operational reliability
Reinforced bearings
Optional, force-free gear housing thanks to additional thrust bearing
Customized versions possible, special flange on the output side for mounting to the agitator
Extra-strong output shafts (solid- or hollow-shaft design)
Output bearing arrangement with additional, bidirectional thrust bearings
Application
Chemical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food processing industries
