Engineering in coffee industry
Suatec is a pioneer in coffee technology from Roasting technology and Coffee Extraction to the Instant coffee production.
Coffee is our passion.
We offer you engineering in various processes of coffee production:
Roasting
Extraction
Spray drying, Agglomeration,
Freeze drying
Heat technology
Exhaust gas treatment
Our Engineering services
- Extensive consultation
- Concept development
- Plant optimization
- Equipment and plant design
- Creation of 2D/3D drawings
- Automation Concepts
- Electrical engineering and constructions
Our consulting services
- Extension of production equipment
- Optimization of production processes
- Emission reduction
- Recommendation of improvement potentials
- Production expansion
- Increases in production capacity
- Quality improvements
Project examples:
1 - Roasting:
- Retrofitting of an exhaust air cleaning system
- Energy recovery from roaster exhaust air
- New construction of a stoner
- Planning of a central exhaust air cleaning system
- Integration of a roaster in the higher-level control
- Connection of an autonomous chaff compactor
- Conception of a green coffee pre-heating
- Installation of a green coffee metal separator
2 - Extraction:
- Planning of an aroma recovery system to increase the product quality
- Planning an automatic cell coffee feeding
- Installation of a special grinding technique for maximum yield
- Optimization of coffee grounds handling
3 - Freeze drying:
- Cycle time optimization and capacity increase
- Implementation of an energy consumption monitoring
- Optimization of the de-Icing process
- Reduction of burned particles
- Retrofitting of an automatic product moisture measurement
- Reduction of energy consumption in de-Icing Process
4 - Spray drying:
- Retrofit of an automatic moisture measurement
- Development of new products: “Microgrind Coffee”
and “Crema”
5 - Refrigeration plant:
- Retrofitting of an energy recovery in the Ammonia-CO2 cascade system
- Increasing the condenser efficiency
6 - Utilities:
- Planning of a steam generation by burning coffee grounds
- Retrofitting of economizers
- Implementation of an energy management system
- Retrofitting of a special water softening for the increase of the extraction yield
- Installation of energy recovery from air compressors
7 - Wet process:
- Installation of an automatic filtration plant
- Reduction of the water consumption of the evaporators
- CIP station extension
- Development of a coffee sludge recycling process from separators
- Re-dimensioning of the separator capacity
- Design and implementation of a Chemical storage plant for CIP station