Precise & reproducible microwave measurement

The industrial production of collagen and gelatine involves several stages, including raw material selection, pre-treatment to extraction, purification, and drying. These processes ensure high-quality end products with properties suitable for the intended applications. Understanding the production steps and optimizing production steps, such as dry matter measurement, is crucial for efficiency and quality control.

Measuring the total solids or density of collagen or gelatine during production is crucial for maintaining optimising processes, ensuring regulatory compliance, product quality especially during pre-treatment, extraction and concentration. The Micro-Polar LB 566 measurement system from Berthold, highly accurate and repeatable measurements, ensuring stable and reliable process control from start to finish.

 

Technical Features

  • High accuracy < 0.2 wt.% dry matter content (first standard deviation)
  • Representative measurement results due to detection of the entire material flow in the pipeline
  • Reliable measurement with only one calibration factor, even with different sludges
  • Maintenance-free

 

Customer Benefits

  • Online total solids or density measurement
  • Optimisation & control of the production process
  • Cost reduction through optimised use of resources
  • Optimised pump utilisation avoids blockages and ensures optimum efficiency
  • Non-optical measurement, not sensitive to contamination therefore no cleaning required
  • Not sensitive to film build-up

 

 

Berthold Labels

Food safety through international quality standards

EHEDG
3A
FDA

Measuring principle

The measurement system generates microwaves that interact with the water molecules due to their high dielectric constant. This interaction causes an attenuation of the microwave energy, which can be detected as phase shift and attenuation. Since the phase shift and attenuation change are directly proportional to the water content in the product, the concentration or solids content in the medium can be determined with high accuracy. The superior multi-frequency technology from Berthold ensures very stable and reliable measurements, unaffected by interfering reflections or resonances from the measuring environment.

Typical applications

  • Food Industry (gummy bears, fruit gummy, jelly deserts, dairy, beverages)
  • Pharmaceutical industry (gelatine capsules, tablet coatings, blood clotting agents)
  • Cosmetic industry (collagen anti-aging creams, serums, shampoos make up)
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