Alfa Laval Agri

Report on Experience       February 2^nd 1994

use of ionic accellerator GAMMA 2 for water treatment in fluid circuit vacuum pumps

in order to generate underpreassure being necessary for milking purposes, there are used environmentally friendly fluid circuit vacuum pumps. The water is run in a circuit to cool the pump. So the water heats up with every passage through the pump.

A test was run with water circuit pumps with water of 65° to 95° German Harness and it became obvious that already after 4 weeks there was such a strong scaling, that the power of the pumps dropped dramatically and finally one pump even clogged totally and stopped working.

After having cleaned the pumps, the water circuit was equipped with GAMMA 2 ionic accellerators.

All the pumps are now operating since one year without any maintanance. The pumps and piping systems are totally free of calcium deposits. In the water reservoire tank there was a pouder-like sediment, which could be flushed off easily.

Based on these very positive results, ALFA LAVAL Company has decided to include these devices into their range of sales products.

Signed by ALFA LAVAL GmbH (Düsseldorf, Germany)

devision Milking processes

Dr. E. Furth