It is an intuitive and comprehensive tool aiding in the planning and design of industrial water treatment facilities with ion exchange and membrane systems.
WD News: LANXESS has added another function for the food industry to its LewaPlus design software. This enables the dimensioning of ion exchange systems including several special process configurations that can be optimally achieved with Lewatit types specially developed for food applications.
This addition covering the calculation of demineralisation systems for aqueous gelatin and collagen solutions is fully integrated with the software’s food module, regularly updated and available right now.
“Lewatit users can now monitor the performance of existing gelatin and collagen demineralisation systems in a user-friendly and practical manner and also design new systems. It helps to reduce waste, chemicals, and water consumption – all aspects,” says Dr. Nadja Hermsdorf, Technical Marketing Manager in the Liquid Purification Technologies (LPT) business unit at LANXESS.
The software features a cost calculation tool for determining the investment and operating costs of a production facility for treating gelatin and collagen solutions. The investment costs include expenses for installing the system and procuring the ion exchange resins. The operating costs comprise expenditure on regeneration, water consumption, and wastewater disposal. A cost forecast helps users to estimate the expenses throughout the system’s planned total service life (total cost of ownership, TCO).
The new software function also allows users to check the cost-effectiveness of existing gelatin and collagen treatment systems. As a result, LANXESS is offering the first software solution on the market that enables users to estimate the optimal use of ion exchange resins for the highest possible quality of gelatin and collagen. Producers can also identify potential savings in operating costs.
Source & image courtesy: LANXESS
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