Water reduction for clean-in-place operations using vortex rings
Our client asked:
Sagentia Innovation works with leading businesses across the industrial, food and beverage, consumer, and medical sectors. Clients across a number of sectors have asked us how they can contribute to water reduction in manufacturing.
The project story:
- Vortex rings’ internal rotation creates movement from the outside to the inside of a doughnut-shaped feature
- Vortex rings could therefore improve mixing within the flow of water through a pipe by drawing material from the pipe walls into the centre
- The water flow rate and volume used would therefore be reduced while still achieving the effective removal of residues from the pipe walls
Results: deliverables and outcomes
Sagentia Innovation showed that a vortex ring could survive in a pipe and can travel in a background flow. As such, this concept could be the first step in a development journey towards significant reduction in water consumption for cleaning-in-place systems.
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