Cleaning In Place
The industrial environment is a very demanding place when it comes to cleaning. The need for the correct standards in hygiene has never been higher and in maintaining these standards there is a push for efficiency and cost containment. There are many machines on the market to assist in achieving the maximum productivity from the cleaning process.
Cleaning in Place Analysis.
Cleaning in Place is usually abbreviated to CIP and it used to describe any cleaning system that cleans apparatus automatically in situ. The system uses a solution of chemicals usually heated which is introduced into pipework or vessel under pressure to clean the surface. It is a calculation to ascertain the correct quantities of the variables in use for this process to ensure that the surface has been cleaned to an acceptable standard. On the face of it this seems like an expensive exercise but it is possible to recover and reuse the chemical. The ability to reuse the entire cleaning agent is known as total recovery, to be able to reuse some of the chemical would be partial recovery and if nothing was reused then it is known as a total loss.
Cleaning in Place Typical Applications
Because of the nature of cleaning in place systems, there is very little human intervention so there is an inherent safety advantage in that there is less handling of potentially hazardous chemicals. The equipment being cleaned does not need dismantling which saves a great deal of time. CIP is used in a variety of industries such as Food, Pharmaceuticals, Dairy and Brewing etc. Although the system is known as cleaning in place the cleaning machinery itself can sometimes be portable and moved to the equipment requiring cleaning. This might be used for tanks vessels or pipework where it is not necessary or possible to have a static cleaning system. The nature of cleaning in place systems is that it is built or adapted to the specific job requirement and so the best advice is required when looking at cleaning in place equipment
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