Bee Honey Equipment - YME

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Efficient Filtration System: 

The equipment is equipped with a high-efficiency filtration system capable of effectively removing particles, honey residues, and other impurities from honey.

Automation: 

The honey purification equipment utilizes advanced automation control systems, simplifying operational processes and enhancing production efficiency.

Preservation of Nutritional Components: 

Through precise filtering and separation, the equipment ensures the preservation of nutritional components in honey, delivering high-quality honey products.

Easy to Clean and Maintain: 

The simple structure of the equipment allows for easy disassembly, cleaning, and maintenance, ensuring stable and long-term operation.

Advantages and Applications:

Increased Production Efficiency: 

The honey purification equipment enhances overall production efficiency through its efficient operational principles.

Quality Assurance: 

The equipment ensures that honey products meet international standards, satisfying market and customer demands.

Cost Savings in Labor: 

Automated operations reduce manual intervention, saving labor costs on the production line.

Applicability to Various Specifications: 

The equipment is designed to accommodate production needs of different scales, customizable based on customer requirements.

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The latest advancements in honey brewing equipment have been instrumental in transforming the honey-handling processes for both small and large-scale producers.

In the past week, European researchers have unveiled a new filtration technology that promises to increase the efficiency of honey processing by up to 30%. This innovation has been swiftly incorporated into the latest models of YME's equipment, ensuring customers remain at the cutting edge of technology.

Key Upgrades and Features:

Enhanced Hygienic Design: 

The new models include an improved hygienic design that simplifies the cleaning process even further, reducing downtime associated with maintenance and sanitation.

Sustainability: 

Alongside increased efficiency, the updated equipment reduces energy consumption, contributing to a more sustainable production environment.

Speed and Precision: 

The incorporation of AI-controlled sensors now allows for real-time adjustments, optimizing the purification process to preserve as much of the natural nutrients as possible.

These updated features support YME's commitment to helping producers meet their production goals while maintaining a high standard of quality for honey products. For a complete understanding of these updates, please Read more.

There are many viscous, sticky, gooey and otherwise difficult-to-handle ingredients used in the brewing process, and honey can be one of the most difficult.  

A new and growing Midwestern microbrewery uses honey as the brewing sugar source for several of its specialty and seasonal beer recipes. Due to the varied usage requirements, there was no dedicated feeding process for getting honey from the floor into the brew vats. When a batch called for it, an employee would use a honey auger to fill a bucket, climb to the access port on the vat, and dump it in, repeating the process until the necessary amount had been added. The process was laborious, messy and inefficient, and while there were no sanitary issues with manually adding the honey at that stage, it was unpleasant work that tied up employee time, hauling honey buckets around the brewery floor, as dosing quantities were measured in numbers of 55 gallon drums. 

Various pumping solutions were considered, but they failed to address the pumping of highly viscous (~10,000 centipoise [cP] at 70 F) fluid to an elevation of 10 feet at sufficient flow, the ability to deal with dry running for a time if a drum was emptied and not immediately changed, and the difficulty of cleaning the pumps. 

Key Issues 

The brewery was not able to afford an automated solution, so the pump had to be able to be left unattended for various periods, even if the honey supply ran out. The brewery also did not want to further increase maintenance duties with a pump that would have to be disassembled and rebuilt for full cleaning.

Solution 

With decades of experience in working with moving highly viscous liquids in a sanitary environment, an OEM recommended a sanitary pump for the brewery's needs. The brewery needed a pump that could run dry indefinitely, was clean-in-place (CIP) ready, had a low number of consumable parts, had a long working life and was easy to access, resulting in minimum maintenance time.

Workers only had to tend to the pump to change feed hose from the empty drum to a fresh supply. The recommended sanitary pump can be used for a range of ingredients used in brewing such as fruit pulps, flavorings, syrups and any material that is high viscosity or delicate to handle.

The sanitary tri-clamp configuration makes a cart-mounted pump easy to set up and relocate as needed on the brewery floor. CIP-ready enables the entire pump to be cleaned with a standard hot water flush. 

IMAGE 1: Sanitary pump (Image courtesy of Tacmina USA)

No packing, seals or sliding metal parts means the pump can dry run indefinitely without worry of damage. This also eliminated any concerns about potential contamination to the vats as moving parts experience wear. 

During tests at the brewery, the sanitary pump was able to push more than two gallons per minute of consistent honey flow even at cool ambient temperatures. Workers who had previously spent a significant portion of their working time emptying drums one bucket at a time were able to focus their attention elsewhere, only needing to return to the pump to change the feed hose to a fresh drum when the previous one was emptied.

Ingredient usage and process efficiency were improved, and cleanup was also simple, as a hot water flush followed by sanitizer solution circulation left the equipment clean and ready for the next task.

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