Safe pH Water revolutionizes CIP technology

Clean-in-place (CIP) technology is relatively new. Until the 1950, there was only one way to clean piping in manufacturing plants: dissemble all the pipes, wash them with hands or through machines, and then put them back together. Needless to say that the process was time-consuming and expensive. It posed a big problem in industries where piping needed to be cleaned often, such as milk processing plants; until the CIP technology was invented.

CIP offered a new way to wash the innards of pipes. In this method, a combination of chemicals was used to clear the inside surface of pipes off unwanted particles, known as soil. Although the chemicals used in plants varied between industries, a common thread linked them all. That common thread was how CIP cleaners were used.

Today, caustic soda, peracetic acid, nitric acid, phosphoric acid, and sodium hypochlorite are five commonly used CIP cleaners. They are made to run through the piping of a plant at high pressure where they react will soil. The reaction can be either form a new product or mixture. Either way, soil gets attached to chemicals. A second round of high pressure liquids flushes the chemicals and the soil together — leaving the inner sides of pipes adequately clean for reuse. This technology is faster and less costly than traditional methods. There is no need to dismantle an entire plant only to clean it. Unsurprisingly it has come to dominate many industries.

Despite all the success that CIP technology has seen, many industries use them out of necessity than love. It is because the technology has a low rate of return. The amount of chemicals used in each cleaning is massive and so is the money spent on CIP cleaners. Fortunately there are ways in which plants can save money and make their process more efficient. Safe pH Water is working on just such techniques.

Innovation never stops. When CIP came along, it was a revolutionary new technology. After half a century, it is just another tried and tested industrial technology that is used to clean pipes from inside. An American company, Safe pH Water, intends to change it. It has come up with a newer set of techniques and machines that help industries using CIP become more efficient in its use. These techniques help industry save water, energy, time, and reduce the CIP cycle time for better cleaning. More information on the Safe pH Water technology is available on the website.

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