FLOW CONTROL / Food & beverage utilities
Food and beverage plants rely on water, cooling and air utilities as well as dedicated product-contact systems. Start by identifying whether the valve handles a utility or the food product itself.
Discuss your application
Food and beverage plants depend on utilities that support production, including cooling water, air and other defined service lines. This application page focuses on those plant utilities; direct food contact, hygienic processing and cleaning systems require their own design and documentation review.
An electrically operated butterfly valve can be reviewed for an appropriate plant-utility isolation duty. Specify the medium, treatment additives, pressure and temperature range, then confirm materials, operating torque and the electrical arrangement for the proposed valve-actuator assembly.
A pneumatic ball-valve option can be discussed for a defined utility line that needs repeated on/off operation. Give cycle frequency, available air, position indication and the required response to utility loss; suitability must be confirmed for the specific medium and configuration.
The screwed or socket-weld ball-valve listing offers connection options to review for compatible plant services. Confirm the connection, maintenance approach, fluid and operating limits. These industrial connections and a stainless-steel material option do not establish a hygienic product-contact design.
SELECTION / LOOK BEYOND LINE SIZE
A valve in a cooling loop is not specified in the same way as one handling food, beverage or an ingredient. Mark the duty clearly so the review begins with the correct design and evidence requirements.
External washdown and cleaning chemicals can affect the actuator and enclosure. If cleaning fluid also passes through the valve, provide its composition, temperature and cycle separately from normal operation.
A production sequence may need confirmation that a utility valve has moved as intended. Define the control signal, feedback and failure response together, rather than treating the valve-open command as proof of actual position.
Body, trim, seals and actuation need to work together under your service conditions.
A stainless-steel body does not by itself establish cleanability, hygienic geometry or approval for food contact. Where the valve contacts product, specify the required design, materials and evidence, then ask for a configuration that meets that brief.
Describe humidity, washdown method and cleaning chemicals around the valve. Confirm the actuator, electrical components and enclosure protection for those conditions as well as the fluid-contact materials inside the valve.
Provide site air or power, switching frequency and the required feedback. State the intended action on loss of utilities and ask for the complete operating arrangement to be confirmed; fail-close or fail-open behaviour should not be assumed.
Explore these catalogue configurations, compare their specifications and share your operating conditions with our team.
Explore automated isolation for suitable plant utilities.
Size Range: 25mm to 1200mm. Pressure Rating: PN10/ PN16.
Explore pneumatic on/off operation.
Size Range: 25mm to 300mm. Pressure Rating: Class 150/ Class 300.
Review utility-line connection options.
Size Range: 15mm to 100mm Pressure Rating: #150 and #800
Final selection depends on the complete valve configuration, fluid compatibility and operating duty. Project-specific approvals and limits are confirmed with the quotation.
BEFORE YOU SPECIFY / PRACTICAL ANSWERS
Questions worth discussing for your food & beverage utilities application.
Ask our teamThis page presents catalogue options for reviewing plant-utility duties. It does not establish food-contact approval. For product-contact service, provide the specific hygienic design and documentation requirements and request confirmation of a suitable configuration before selection.
That needs a separate review of the cleaning process, chemistry, temperature and required cleanability. Do not infer cleaning-in-place suitability from a stainless-steel body or an automated actuator. Describe the actual cleaning and hygiene requirements in the enquiry.
Identify the utility and whether it contacts product, then add the fluid, operating range, quantity, connection and automation requirements. Include external washdown conditions and any required project documents so the valve and actuator can be reviewed as a complete package.
Share the medium, duty, size, connections and operating conditions.
Prestige supportConversations with our sales team
Send us a message. Our team will reply here.
This conversation has ended. Your messages remain here.
Replies appear here. Return using the same browser to continue.
Automated catalogue help. Enquiries go to Prestige.