Alfa Laval Free Rotating Retractor
Efficient and adaptable, the Alfa Laval Free Rotating Retractor eliminates residues from inaccessible vessel surfaces, maintaining pristine ducts and tanks to optimize productivity. Streamlined installation, operation, and maintenance reduce overall ownership costs.
Tailored for the dairy, food, beverage, home, personal care, and other hygiene-critical industries, this retractable spray device boasts food-compliant materials (FDA, EU, and China regulations). An optional version includes the Alfa Laval Q-doc documentation package and 3.1 material certificate for metal parts, offering comprehensive compliance assurance.
Complete cleaning assurance using less water, chemicals, and time
Spotless tanks and ducts are crucial to secure product quality, prevent contamination, and meet strict standards
for hygienic processing. Cleaning-in-Place (CIP) equipment should get your vessels ready for production as quickly and economically as possible, without interfering with the product
or processing equipment.
The answer is a high-efficiency retractable cleaning device:
Alfa Laval Free Rotating Retractor. During cleaning, the free-rotating spray head emits cleaning liquid in all directions inside the duct or tank. After completing the CIP cycle, the spray head is retracted, leaving a smooth surface in the vessel wall.
Easy to install and maintain, Alfa Laval Free Rotating Retractor
can save up to 35% in cleaning time, water, and cleaning
media compared to static spray ball systems, making it a truly
resource-efficient solution.
How it works
The Alfa Laval Free Rotating Retractor functions as a pneumatically opened and spring-closed seat valve to clean the interior surfaces of vessels used to manufacture hygienic products. In the closed position, the installation forms a flush design with the vessel wall, and the spray head is not exposed to the product zone. The spray head rotates between the two hydro bearings due to the reaction forces of the cleaning media expelled from the orifices. The spray head expels cleaning media in a swirling 310°-up spray pattern throughout the compartment, generating complete coverage through a vibrating impact and cascading flow.
The actuator can remain extended during a draining or purging phase. The device is completely self-cleaning except for the product-facing part of the plug. This surface is normally cleaned by pairing it with another tank cleaning device. When properly installed the device is self-draining.
Free rotating retractor design
- Design based on SSV valve and SaniMidget SB (using existing Alfa Laval Components).
- Retrofit to existing process connections 3 inch RJT(RML), 2 inch Clamp (TetraPak), 3 inch Clamp (Alfa Laval) and DN80 Clamp (Alfa Laval).
- Modularity: Reduce number of variants.
- ThinkTop ready.