Pharmaceutical centrifuge for particle separation
Effortlessly upscale your biopharmaceutical processes with a compact centrifuge that handles demanding separation tasks, ensuring precise particle separation and product consistency across varying batch sizes.
The GEA pathfinder GMP, from the renowned GEA Group, is a pharmaceutical separator skid engineered for biopharmaceutical applications including cell harvesting and clarification of monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, and recombinant proteins. Its compact design fits seamlessly into your existing production lines, offering plug-and-play convenience with fully integrated connections and controls. Utilizing a hydrohermetic feed system, it ensures gentle treatment of shear-sensitive microorganisms, while the GEA hydrostop system allows for controlled partial ejections. With a processing capacity ranging from 15 l/h to 300 l/h, it maintains high throughput in both batch and pilot operations. Fabricated from high-alloy stainless steel 316L, it offers excellent corrosion resistance and complies with GMP and FDA standards, ensuring product safety and quality. The system comes with full documentation, including material and surface quality certificates, and supports easy bowl exchange to adapt to varying batch sizes. Additionally, its CIP capability and low-maintenance design streamline cleaning and reduce downtime, making it a versatile and efficient solution for pharmaceutical manufacturers, CMOs, and biotech companies.
Benefits
- Enhances product quality with precise separation of challenging biopharmaceutical materials.
- Streamlines setup with plug-and-play integration, reducing installation time.
- Minimizes maintenance efforts through CIP capability and low-maintenance components.
- Ensures regulatory compliance with GMP and FDA standards.
- Facilitates quick adaptation to varying production demands with easy bowl exchange.
- Applications
- Biopharmaceuticals,Pharmaceutical applications,Cell harvesting
- End products
- Recombinant proteins,Vaccines,Insulin,Monoclonal antibodies,Cell culture media
- Steps before
- Formulation Preparation,Dissolution,Feeding
- Steps after
- CIP (Clean-in-Place) Operations,Sanitization,Quality Inspection,Documentation,Storage
- Input ingredients
- pharmaceutical slurry,liquid with shear-sensitive microorganisms,fine particles with slight density differences
- Output ingredients
- clarified liquid,separated particles,concentrated microorganisms
- Automation
- Plug,play
- Capacity
- 15 l/h – 300 l/h
- Separation force
- 20,000 g
- Bowl sizes
- Three bowl sizes
- Material quality
- 316L stainless steel
- Surface quality
- 0.8 μm
- Temperature tolerance
- up to 100 °C
- Pressure tolerance for cooling system
- up to 1.5 bar overpressure
- Bowl exchange adaptability
- 3 in 1
- Noise level
- Low running noise
- Belt drive type
- Low-maintenance flat belt
- Pre-installation
- On a frame including piping and control cabinet
- Vibration monitoring
- Available option
- Turbidity meter
- Available option
- Pumps available
- Feed and solids pump
- Control system
- Siemens or Alan-Bradley
- CIP capability
- Included (spray nozzles)
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch / Inline Continuous
- Automation level
- Manual / PLC / SCADA
- Cleaning method
- CIP / Manual
- Energy efficiency
- Not specified
- Plug,play installation
- Yes
- Changeover time
- Not specified
- Hydrohermetic feed system
- Yes
- Controlled partial ejections
- Through GEA hydrostop system
- Sound level
- Low running noise
- All-in-one unit installation
- Yes
- Cleanability
- Optimal Cleanability
- Density
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³
- Particle size
- 50–1000 µm
- Machine footprint
- Compact
- Skid format
- Sophisticated compact
- Door size requirement
- 900 mm
- Bowl sizes
- Three sizes available
- Flow rate
- 15 l/h – 300 l/h
- Control panel type
- Alan-Bradley / Siemens
- Discharge method
- GEA hydrostop system
- Compact footprint
- Fits through a 900-mm door
- Integration possibilities
- Pre-installed connections and control modules
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.