Success Story: Market Served

Chocolate Processing Food and Beverage

Chocolate manufacturer enjoys sweet

benefits of Eaton DCF Filters
Location:
India
The solution put in Background decreased productivity and
product quality, forcing the
place by Eaton allowed Whether it’s fine chocolates or a company to look for a solution.
Segment:
Food and beverage the customer to better common candy bar, chocoholics
around the world count on Challenges
Challenge:
manage the process and chocolate manufacturers to keep
up with demand and Chocolate must be filtered to
A global chocolate manufacturer reduce the amount of consistently deliver sweet ensure a high-quality finished
discovered challenges in its liquid
chocolate filtration system which labor required. treats. A global chocolate
manufacturing facility in India is
product free of contaminants. In
addition, there are varying global
included filtering the products in an helping satisfy those cravings standards for consistency that
open environment. Decreased
productivity and product quality
The customer is so while keeping up with one of
the fastest growing
create the need for a filtration
system capable of handling
forced the company to look for a pleased with the confectionary markets in the diverse raw materials.
better solution. world - the Indian chocolate
successful operation of industry, which is presently
Increasing productivity and
Solution: the DCF-800 that valued at $4.8 billion.
quality by improving flow rate,
Replace vibrating gravity screen with eliminating external contaminant
an Eaton DCF-800 mechanically additional units were As demand and production build-up and reducing operating
increased, the company
cleaned filter.
ordered. discovered several shortcomings
noise and maintenance time
were key to keeping up with
Results: in its liquid chocolate filtration increased global demand for this
Eaton’s DCF-800 mechanically system including the use of a popular confection. Furthermore,
cleaned filter increased efficiency vibrating gravity screen. The ensuring the purity of the
and enhanced the quality of the end facility’s chocolate manufacturing finished product by avoiding
product. Higher flow rates resulted in process includes filtering liquid exposure of the warm liquid
increased productivity, reduced chocolate in an open chocolate to the atmosphere
contaminants and both labor and environment before the molding was important in the success of
material savings. stage. this operation.

Because the screen in use relied A pump flow rate of 5 cubic

on the force of gravity to flow meters per hour paired with a
the fluid through the process, it relatively high viscosity of the
had to be located on the second liquid chocolate, 6000 – 8000
floor of the plant, limiting the centipoise (cP), was no match
configuration of the production for the vibrating gravity screen.
line. This flaw resulted in The screen’s frequent clogging,
low burst strength, frequent • More efficient use of space Eaton's DCF Self Cleaning Filter
bursting and subsequent repair due to filter’s compact design The DCF mechanically cleaned
or replacement, resulted in an • Virtually maintenance-free filters operate at a consistently
excess of unplanned downtime. operations and less frequent low differential pressure and
replacement of parts resulting deliver simple, reliable operation
The company sought from fewer moving parts in which a low initial investment
recommendations from Eaton, is a key driving factor.
whose industrial filtration Results
systems are used successfully
around the globe in a number of The replacement of the vibrating
chocolate processing gravity screen with Eaton’s DCF-
applications, including 800 mechanically cleaned filter
harvesting, fermentation, shell has made the filtration process
removal, grinding, pressing, more efficient and enhanced
deodorizing, cooling and the quality of the end product.
conching. Higher flow rates have resulted
in increased productivity and
reduced contaminants.
Solution

Eaton recommended a The transition to the DCF-800

continuous, enclosed filtration has also translated into labor
system that best matched the and material savings. The low-
customer’s operating process maintenance operation of the
and desired goals, which DCF-800 was a welcome change
included continuous operation to the customer as the previous
and a high-quality operating system required the system
environment. to be shut down for frequent
cleaning and replacement. The
solution put in place by Eaton
The DCF-800 performs a self-
allowed the customer to better
cleaning action by mechanically
manage the process and reduce
scraping collected debris from
the amount of labor required.
the filter screen with a disc that
travels up and down the screen,
parallel to the liquid flow. The The continuously running pro-
collection chamber at the bottom duction line and the purge
of the filter automatically purges valve’s open cycle maximum of
collected debris without halting only seven-tenths of a second
production in a process that has minimized product loss and
takes less than seven-tenths of increased the bottom line.
a second.
The customer is so pleased with
Because the DCF-800
the successful operation of the
continuously cleans the screen
DCF-800 that additional units
without interrupting production,
were ordered.
it maintains a consistently high
flow rate and provides the That’s great news for chocolate
highest quality filtering of the lovers around the world.
selected media.

Eaton’s DCF-800 mechanically-

cleaned filter provided several
more benefits, including:

• Increased burst strength of

150 psi compared to 110 psi in
the customer’s former system
• Improved plant working condi-
tions due to quieter, enclosed
system
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