Variable-flow ejectors for heat recovery
Enhance your steam system efficiency by upgrading low-pressure steam to higher pressure levels, ensuring optimal heat recovery and reduced waste in your processes.

Compresses and Upgrades Low-Pressure Steam
The Variable-Flow Ejector from GEA, based on advanced jet pump technology, is engineered to optimize heat recovery and steam pressure in various industrial processes. This equipment excels in efficiently compressing low-pressure steam to higher pressure, enhancing energy utilization without the need for rotating parts, thus minimizing maintenance. It’s ideal for applications in chemical production, food and beverage processing, and pharmaceutical manufacturing, particularly in heat recovery systems.
The ejector’s operation is driven by medium- to high-pressure steam, making it suitable for continuous and manual operations across diverse industries. GEA’s Variable-Flow Ejectors are distinguished by their adaptability to varying mass flow and pressure requirements through a motive nozzle needle, allowing precise process control. Available in materials like stainless steel or other corrosion-resistant alloys, they offer longevity even in harsh operating environments.
These ejectors provide seamless integration into existing production lines, supporting processes such as evaporator and hot condensate heating. Their design ensures low acquisition and operational costs, complemented by GEA’s engineering support for tailored configurations to meet specific plant needs.
Benefits
- Enhances energy efficiency by optimizing low-pressure steam usage.
- Minimizes maintenance costs due to its non-rotating parts design.
- Easily integrates into diverse industrial systems for improved process control.
- Offers material flexibility for enhanced corrosion resistance and long service life.
- Reduces operational costs with precision in adapting to varying flow and pressure conditions.
- Applications
- Hot condensate heating,Waste steam upgrading,Low-pressure steam applications,Evaporator heating,Heat recovery systems
- End products
- Steps before
- Waste steam generation,Low-pressure steam production
- Steps after
- Heating of evaporators,Heat recovery,Heating recovery from hot condensate
- Input ingredients
- low pressure steam,medium-pressure steam,high-pressure steam
- Output ingredients
- compressed steam,higher pressure steam
- 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.
- Mode of Operation
- Low pressure steam compressed to higher pressure
- Material of Construction
- Various materials available
- Pressure Adaptation
- Motive nozzle needle adjustment
- Application
- Heat recovery,waste steam upgrading
- Operation Initiation
- Quick and easy
- Maintenance Requirement
- Low
- Lifetime
- Decades when suitable material is chosen
- Working Mechanism
- Steam Compression
- Flow Control
- Precise adaption via motive nozzle needle
- Operation Mode
- Varying mass flow and pressure requirements
- Startup Time
- Quick and easy
- Maintenance Requirement
- Low maintenance
- Material Compatibility
- Various materials of construction
- Lifespan
- Decades when suitable materials are chosen
- Corrosive resistance
- High
- Cleanability
- Easy
- Abrasion resistance
- Good
- Biological compatibility
- N/A
- Chemical resistance
- Acids,Alkalis
- Metallic materials
- Stainless Steel,Graphite
- Steam compression capability
- Medium to high-pressure steam