Italy
One of our historic and most important customers from central Italy, which produces fresh-tasting olives, has applied several pumping stations of the TC.ZV/QS range, for transferring their products along the various phases of the treatment and
processing cycle of the same.
Tecnicapompe in collaboration with the TAD division of Procibus - Tecnologie S.r.l. has developed an innovative project for the hydraulic transport of whole and pitted olives of different types and sizes, in the context of a wider plant system for the treatment of the same.
Starting from the raw materials warehouse, after the sorting process, the olives are raised to a height of 8 meters, through a pipeline that runs up to 200 meters in length and connects with the production department, serving various processing
tanks. Here the olives are left to rest for the time necessary to stabilize the chemical-physical parameters at the desired values. After the treatment phase, a second pumping station extracts the olives from the hopper and sends them to the packaging
line. There are six pumping groups, each of which can extract the product from different hoppers, feeding up to 6 packaging lines at the same time, for a maximum overall production capacity of 60.000 kg/h of transported solid product.
The use of the transport system has also brought the following benefits to the production processes:
- Continuous transport over long distances for high production volumes
- Process automation, with simple and intuitive management
- Complete, safe and reliable traceability of the product throughout the production process
- Prevention of oxidative phenomena: the olives always travel immersed in the preserving liquid
