TMCI Padovan S.P.A.

TMCI Padovan is specialized in supplying complete lines for different types of beverage, from wine to beer, up to soft drinks and fruit juices. TMCI Padovan can assist each customer with turnkey plants for single strength, concentrated juice, grape juice, complete wineries or breweries and syrup rooms.

We as TMCI Padovan can help our customer through different process phases, such as: filtration and clarification, thermal exchange, malt transport and milling, fermentation and maturation tanks, hop back and dry hop, packing and filling, enzyme inactivation, blending and mixing, yeast recovery and propagation, deaeration and CIP.

Final result will be:

• Wineries;
• Breweries;
• Syrup rooms;
• Equipment for margarine, gelatine, cocoa butter, oils & fats and shortening.

 
From the analysis of the technical-productive needs to the production. From the engineering to the plants installation.

Filtration is one of the most important process, carried out by many different machines and systems, with or without the aid of adjuvants. Through filtration and clarification, it is possible to obtain a clear product without using filtering elements, such as filtering panels and/or sheets.

Many different final products are interested by this process: beer, wine, fruit juices, and much more!

TMCI Padovan filters:

• Dynamos: high solids revolutionary rotary crossflow filter, with innovative back wash system, works with rotary discs, for a self-cleaning process. Its maximum versatility permits to filter not only lees but also wines, juices, beers, etc., with superior results.
• Nitor: medium solids crossflow filter with organic capillary membranes, suitable for filtering grape juice, wine, sparkling wine and vinegar. Smart, XL and XXL models can go from 20 m2 to 400 m2 of nominal filtering surface. The CER models take advantage of the ceramic membranes: more resistant and with a longer period of validity.
• Greenfilter: horizontal plate D.E. filter, assures the lack of the drainage grid. It is equipped with a special inlet flow distributor, in order to avoid vortexes and abnormal flows. Suitable for beer, wine, oil, fruit juices and more.
• Other filtration equipment are: Master, Microfiltration, Victoria, Taylo, Ultrafiltration, and much more!
   

In order to preserve the beverage characteristics, it is necessary to inactivate, through pasteurization, the existing microorganisms and enzymes.

This process is possible thanks to plate or tubular pasteurization plants, that assure maximum security and minimum alterations of products, according to HTST principle (high temperature short time).

Competitive advantages are:

• High thermal exchange coefficient;
• Low dirtying rate;
• Easy and speedy cleaning and maintenance;
• Enlargement or transformation possibility.

Complementary equipment:

• Automatic control of pasteurization and outlet temperature;
• Heating through hot water in counter-current;
• Automatic recycling device;
• Automatic recorder of main process variables;
• Feed pump, centrifugal, or progressive cavity, or lobe type, controlled by frequency converter (inverter);
• High sanitary type tubular holder;
• CIP;
• PLC for PU control.
   

Premix units are designed to assure carbonated soft beverages and non-carbonated soft beverages preparation by process water deaeration, mixing with aromatized syrup and carbonation with CO2 injection.

Our plants flexibility permits, by choosing different production recipes, the following processing phases:

• CSD: Deaerated Water + Aromatized Syrup + CO2
• Non CSD: Deaerated Water + Aromatized Syrup
• Sparkling Water: Deaerated Water + CO2
• Natural Water: Deaerated Water

 
Plants consisting of:

• Deaeration group vacuum type to extract process water dissolved oxygen. Deaeration tank and vacuum pump are included in the system.
• Aromatized Syrup / Process water mixing zone assured with magnetic or mass flow meters, according to the configuration and related feeding pumps.
• Static Mixer system downstream flow meters.
• Carbonation group by CO2 Injector and magnetic or mass flow meter, according to the configuration. Carbonation tank and holding zone.
• Existing Filler & CIP interface by digital or BUS & NET signals.
• Integrated filler delivery and CIP return pump.
   

Victoria’s filtration chamber is designed and manufactured according to European Directive PED to filter beverages in presence of CO2 and inject compressed gases into the filter during the processing phases. The filtering discs, from an original Padovan design, are flat and crushproof; they allow a high drainage flow in the filtration phase and during the pre-panel formation and a complete and accurate cleaning in the washing phase, even below the filtration cloth. The filtering elements are made up of a sheet in AISI 304 stainless steel provided with a series of projections obtained thanks to a drawing process on which the filtration cloth in AISI 316L lays with 65 micron meshes. The qualifying feature is the lacking of a drainage grid which is a potential source of pollution for the product. The available models have surfaces from 5 to 80 square meters.

Operation principles:

• Pre-panel formation;
• Filtration;
• Filtration of the residual liquid after filtration;
• Panel drainage and filter washing.