Clean-in-Place (CIP) Tanks

From design and fabrication to installation and start-up, we offer a wide range of sanitary and industrial Clean-in-Place (CIP) tanks and CIP units to reduce cleaning time and costs. We maximize functional hygiene and cleaning efficiency with reliable and reproducible cleaning methods. Our CIP tanks ensure a safer solution for pollution reduction and recycling of water with cleaning elements.We offer custom designed tanks based on our customer’s specific needs, as well as standard tanks in multiple sizes.  

Features & Benefits

  • Improved operational hygiene and cleaning efficiency due to reproducible cleaning processes
  • Increased product quality, recovery and purity due to enhanced plant hygiene
  • Reduced expenditure of time and personnel for manually performing the cleaning tasks
  • Decreased pollution and production costs through the effective use and reuse of water, cleaning chemicals and boiler condensate
  • A safer, more consistent method of plant sanitation

Details

  • Our CIP design criteria is based on present 3-A, USDA, cGMP, ASME (U&R), BPE, FDA and API standards. Process control can be achieved through existing PLCs, self-supporting control systems or manual operations.

Options & Models

  • Single pass
  • Single use
  • Multi-tank reuse systems
  • Educator-assisted CIP return designs
  • Dual and simultaneous solution supply

Flavor Vats & Tanks

We custom design, fabricate and install flavor vats for adding flavoring or coloring to a variety of tasty foods. Our flavor vats, including ice cream flavor vats, are built to size. Utilizing a variety of flowmeter and load cell technologies and agitation and low to high-shear mixing options, flavor vats can be customized to accommodate extracts, purees and powdered flavor enhancement systems. Our A&B flavor vats and custom agitators can be skidded for specific applications. A Clean-in-Place (CIP) system can also be integrated in order to facilitate cleaning between batches.

Features & Benefits

  • Ergonomic, efficient, and sanitary
  • Flexibility with tank size and number of compartments ranging from one to four

Details

  • For mixing a base ice-cream mix to a variety of flavored mixes via the addition of flavorings, purees and extracts.

Industrial Tanks

We offer the experience, capabilities and equipment needed to handle any custom stainless steel fabrication need. We will custom fabricate the products to your specifications or will custom fabricate a new process system based on your engineering drawings and unique requirements.We fabricate a wide variety of ASME shell and tube heat exchangers for high-pressure applications in the chemical, petroleum, pulp/paper, renewable energy and water treatment industries.

Features & Benefits

  • Custom made
  • Automated surface finishing
  • Semi-automated welding of highest quality
  • Lifting capacity of 70 tons with 31 feet under the hook
  • Highly advanced engineering and fabrication technologies

Details

  • We can custom fabricate many products including:
  • Control enclosures
  • Stainless steel desks and tables
  • Ductwork
  • Flo-vertors
  • Hoppers
  • Platforms
  • Pump mount plates
  • Tube/pipe hangers

Melt Tanks

We craft ergonomically-designed, self-contained industrial and sanitary melt tanks to reduce manual lifting and dumping, and improve employee safety, via the unique integration of product delivery (conveyor systems), melt stations and use stations. Our melt tanks are ideal for melting butter, lard, chocolate, gums and other solid products. As well, we produce reclaim and rework applications. All of our A&B Process Systems melt tanks undergo rigid testing and meet all 3-A, USDA, cGMP, ASME (U&R) and FDA standards.

Options & Models

  • Two-stage melt systems for applications where a fully-melted product reservoir is desired; in select applications, the reservoir agitation systems can be eliminated
  • Industrial and sanitary designs with or without Clean-in-Place (CIP) integration
  • Custom scrape surface agitators

Mix Tanks

We design, fabricate and install batching and blending mix tanks and kettles used for the dosing of liquids, slurries, gases and bulk solids via loss-in-weight and gain-in-weight designs. We utilize a variety of flowmeter and load cell technologies, and can customize a variety of blending tank systems from agitation to low and high-shear mixing. Our batching and blending tanks can be designed and fabricated in conformance with 3-A, USDA, cGMP, ASME, BPE, FDA and API standards.

Features & Benefits

  • Run trials available at A&B’s test center
  • Skidded for the customer’s specific application
  • Customizable: provide a variety of blending from gentle agitation to low and high shear mixing
  • Filter, meters, weighs, melts, mixes, modifies viscosity, reacts shear heat cool hold and dispenses resultant liquid slurry product

Details

  • The blending and mix tanks and custom agitators can be skidded for most specific applications. For hard-to-handle, powder-to-slurry applications, A&B Process Systems offer the popular VacuShear blending systems
  • The custom agitators can process fruit drinks, sugar solutions, milk and whey powder, sauces, pet foods, creams, stews, soups, chocolate, confections, etc….

Pressure Vessels

A&B Process Systems is a quality manufacturer of a variety of industrial and sanitary ASME stainless-steel pressure vessels and process vessels. We specialize in pressure and vacuum vessels made from stainless-steel, standard carbon steel, Hastelloy® alloys, Monel® alloys, C20 alloy steel, Inconel® alloys and other exotic high-nickel alloys. We are an ASME board-certified designer, fabricator and installer with ASME Section XIII, Division 1 U and R stamps.Our engineering team utilizes the latest software to develop pressure vessel design and data sheet preparation based on your specific requirements. Based on these designs, our in-house detailers prepare shop drawings and general arrangements. During production, our quality control department implements in-house and customer-required hold points, and initiates in-process and final inspections so that all requirements of the code are met. We work with a number of third party inspectors as required by the stringent requirements of the ASME code.

Features & Benefits

  • Ergonomic, efficient, and sanitary
  • Engineered to order
  • ASME stamped

R&D Vessels

Our R&D vessels are ideal for your R&D center.  We offer vessels with availability in numerous sizes with multiple customized agitation options. Additionally, our systems deliver turbulence and keep solids in suspension. We feature an extensive range of mixing solutions per vessel. 

Features & Benefits

  • Triple mix processor provides a broad range of mixing solutions in a single vessel
  • Axial turbine to provide turbulence and keep solids in suspension
  • High shear mixer to create emulsions and disperse particles/solids
  • Scrape Surface to prevent fouling of heat transfer surface during cooling and heating applications

READYGo LIQUIFUSION™

We custom design and fabricate our READYGo LIQUIFUSION tanks to your exacting requirements. Our tank has a bottom entry mix system and is ideal for mixing of soups, sauces and dressings. From its complete hydration feature to its scraped surface agitation, our LiquiFusion offers a great solution to dissolve and disperse semisolids and solids.

Features & Benefits

  • Square or round tanks
  • High shear and high speed
  • Batch or continuous applications
  • Disperse and dissolve solids & semisolids
  • Bottom entry mix system
  • Efficient mixing and shredding for reduced batch times
  • Complete hydration and product liquefaction
  • Scrape surface agitation for applications when heating or cooling

Steritank

For intermediate storage of sterile products, we supply an aseptic tank, designed for full vacuum with volumes of 10,000, 15,000, 20,000, 30,000, 40,000 and 50,000 liters (2,640, 3,960, 5,280, 7,920, 10,560, and 13,200 gallons).

Our Steritank is connected between the process installation and the filling machine, resulting in maximum production efficiency for both machines. From its low maintenance costs to its versatile operations, this tank equips you for excellent and hygienic processing of liquid products. The Steritank is best-in-class for aseptic tanks for juices and soups to purees.

Features & Benefits

  • Low maintenance costs
  • Equipped with Sterilization-in-Place and Clean-in-Place systems
  • Fully self-regulating with automatic operating programs
  • Versatile and flexible operations
  • Equipped with an automatic system that maintains constant overpressure
  • Product can be nitrogen blanketed

Details

  • The flexible Steritank can contain up to 50,000 liters (13,200 gallons) of liquid at almost any viscosity level

Options & Models

  • Steritank 10,000 L (2 640 gallons)
  • Steritank 15,000 L (3 960 gallons)
  • Steritank 20,000 L (5 280 gallons)
  • Steritank 30,000 L (7 920 gallons)
  • Steritank 40,000 L (10 560 gallons)
  • Steritank 50,000 L (13 200 gallons)