Continuous flotation unit for grape juice – Flottaflux

Flottaflux unit assures a continuous separation of the solids from grape must and fruit juices utilizing the “dispersed gas activated flotation” process. Flotation is the opposite of settling process. Dispersing air or inert gas in the juice, the finely subdivided bubbles combined with the suspended solids making them lighter and causing their surfacing. Before flotation the juice is enzymed and treated with clarifying agents in order to flocculate its colloidal substances.

The flotation process is particularly interesting when coupled with grape must and fruit juices clarification processes, where the separation process by settling is discontinuous and needs long holding time while flotation process occurs in short time and continuously.