STS Cetrifuges
The STS system is a disk-type centrifuge with the efficiency to process entire tanks of juice or wine, including the lees, ejecting solids at such a concentration (~ 95% v/v) that no further product recovery is necessary by lees filter or RDV.
Our STS centrifuges offer our clients a superior method to manage solids and to eliminate the need for racking of juices and wines, thus avoiding consequent product losses and quality-value downgrades.
A key advantage of the STS system over older centrifuges is a very low oxygen pick-up, as low as 0.02mg of oxygen per litre of wine.
Other benefits include…
• Removes solids from white juice instantly
• Reduced fining and settling time
• No cold settling or SO2 needed
• Removal of yeast to arrest fermentation
• Removes proteins bound to bentonite
• Increased filter life
• Reduce wine loss to lees
Our STS centrifuges efficiently handle a
broad range of winery products…
• Whole juice
• White wine ex primary ferment
• Bentonite lees
• Arrested ferments, late harvest and
botrytis styles
• Red wine ex primary ferment
• Gross red lees
• Red wine ex malo-lactic ferment
• Wines ex cold stabilisation
• Coarse polishing prior to cross-flow
The STS45 centrifuge is an effective mobile technology for beer clarification too.
| Typical STS 45 Flow Rates | |
|---|---|
| White Wine ex Primary Ferment |
8 – 12 m3/hr |
| Red Wine ex Primary Ferment |
6 – 10 m3/hr |
| Green Beer Clarification | 15 – 20 m3/hr |
| Hot Wort Separation | 10 – 14 m3/hr |