Evaporation Plants
Sophisticated systems integrating all components of a thermal separation process plant, utilizing various types of evaporators and heat treatment, to achieve maximum energy efficiency, sustainability, and economic viability in industrial processes.
GEA specializes in crafting bespoke evaporation solutions that precisely match each client's unique requirements, prioritizing cost-effectiveness and keeping investment and operational expenses to a minimum.
Evaporation plants are required whenever water or any other liquid needs to be removed, concentration must be increased or volume reduced, in an industrial process.
To meet any spectrum of specifications and requirements, GEA designs plant solutions offer their different evaporator types, plant layouts and heating options. Each evaporator type and heating option offers its own benefits, the best suited for every commission are selected according to the main process parameters.
Thanks to ongoing research, development work throughout more than a hundred years and the experience of several thousand installed plants, GEA continues to provide the broadest technical expertise, delivering the best solution for almost any product, evaporation rate, operating condition or application.
Key Features
Evaporation Plants can be found in thousands of installations around the globe serving to diverse industrial processes that include but are not limited to:
- Inorganic chemicals and salts
- Fertilizers
- Organic chemicals
- Industrial wastewater
- Organic and inorganic effluents
- Stillage, steep and stick water, DDGS-effluents
- Fiber board press water
- Caprolactam, kaolin
- Coffee and Tea extract, Coffee wastewater
- Tabaco extract
- Food and dairy products
- Extracts and hydrolysates
- Starch and protein products
- Food ingredients
- Meat and bone extract
- Texturizers, Gelatin and sweeteners
- Beverages
- Juice concentrates, malt extract
- Fermentation products
Heating options for thermal separation plants
Products
Showing 4 of 6
CompaCon® Evaporators
Skid-mounted Falling Film and Forced Circulation Evaporators for small-scale production. Energy efficient, easy to transport and assemble.
Evaporation Test Facilities at Karlsruhe R&D Center
Own state-of-the-art test facilities for laboratory and pilot plant testing in the hands of our skilled R&D engineers. Backed by the solid expertise won over many decades of innovation pursuit.
Falling Film Evaporator
Best suited for temperature-sensitive products and liquids with small amounts of solids and going up to high concentrations
Forced Circulation Evaporator
Ideal for highly viscous liquids or with a tendency to fouling. Optimal for saline solutions among other applications.
Downloads
GEA Insights
Making milk production more sustainable for a growing world
The world's population is growing and with it demand for milk. Dairy is an essential component of many global diets. However, its production can be resource-intensive and impact the environment. GEA’s Christian Müller, Senior Director Sustainability Farm Technologies, sheds light on how technological innovations powered by GEA make milk production more efficient and profitable.
Clean machines safe food: The power of hygienic design
Every safe beverage and bite of food is a victory against invisible microbial threats – a battle shaped by a century of hygienic process design. With more than 100 years of engineering and hygienic design know-how, GEA sets the industry standard for processing equipment that protects food and saves lives.
Filtration sensation: The washing machine principle
Engineering innovation often takes the form of incremental gains. Once in a while, it takes a leap. Case in point: The washing machine. Launched in September 2022, two new GEA software solutions are upending convention and delivering similarly dramatic efficiency gains in the resource-intensive process of membrane filtration.
