Filtration Systems That Ensure Pure Water
Sartorius filtration systems stand for high throughput, durability, and error-free operation, as well as the highest quality and microbiological purity of your products. Specifically designed for water, our dedicated product ranges provide an optimal solution for every filtration step all the way to final filtration.
Along with our products' intelligent design combining manual and automatic systems, we ensure safe, reliable, and optimized water production. This means water and energy savings, an important improvement of sustainability in the water process.
Benefit from Sartorius' expertise and experience to obtain the best quality and throughput rates in your production and filling processes.
Water Production Process Steps - Why use our filtration consumables?
Water needs to be filtered to ensure safe drinking and to conform to stringent health regulations around the world. In the case of process water, filtration is used to assure uncontaminated water. Even if there is pollution upstream, our filtration products help to ensure safe water.
Applications
Venting with our Sartofluor® GA cartridges to protect your water from microbiological contamination at the well. Sartofluor® GA, sterile air filter also protects iron and manganese sand filters. Jumbo Star Sartopure® GA is the ideal large cartridge to prevent contamination in your water storage/buffer tanks during filling and emptying at high flowrate.
Cartridges that are completely traceable
Filters that comply with EU regulations No 21/2011 and No 1935/2004
Robust design with high resistance to both mechanical and chemical stress
Inert filter media
Fully sanitized and re-usable filters
Intense filtration areas that enable a high throughput
Learn more why venting filter size matters in food and beverage production
Sartofluor® GA Cartridges for Filtration of Air & Gas
Gas filtration using Sartofluor® GA filters eliminates the risk of contamination. Our Sartofluor® GA filters ensure no risk of air contamination, sterile air filtration which conforms with standards, high flow rate and technical support for filter sizing and no risk of collapsing tanks.
Jumbo Star Sartopure® GA, the Giant Sized Venting Cartridge
The Jumbo Star Sartopure® GA cartridge is designed for all venting applications that do not necessarily require an integrity testable membrane filter cartridge. Featuring a retention of 0.2 μm for gas, Jumbo Star Sartopure® GA efficiently protects stored products in special reservoirs and storage tanks with a high capacity in the food & beverage industry.
Water treatment is the next step, incorporating pre-filter and final filter processes using our Sartopure® IND, Sartopure® PP3, Sartopure® GF+, Aquasart® PS, Aquasart® Plus cartridge filters. The sterile filtration ensures optimum retention of microorganisms before bottling.
- Lower cost pre-filtration filters that remove contaminants, thereby protecting and increasing the life span of final filtration filters
- Benefit from several polypropylene filtration layers
- Have finer, less bonded fibres and provide higher porosity
- Have unequalled filtration capacity
- Reduce particles that clog water
- Improve clarification
- Deliver more precise particle retention
Sartopure® IND Particle Reduction Filter Cartridges
Sartopure® IND cartridges are developed for a wide range of industrial prefiltration. They combine a high dirt holding capacity, protective abilities and extremely high flow rates. Sartopure® IND cartridges are easy to clean for an efficient regeneration if necessary.
Sartopure® PP Particle Reduction Filter Elements for F&B Applications
Sartopure® PP3 filter elements are high performance polypropylene fleece based pre-filters that improve your product quality. Advanced fleece materials and composition not only extend service life of your downstream membrane but also reduce filter consumption in total.
Sartopure® GF Adsorptive High Capacity Filter Cartridges for Food & Beverage
Sartopure® GF Plus cartridges are optimized for the protection of downstream membrane filter systems and clarification in food and beverage applications. Due to their high adsorptive power by glass fiber fleeces, they are the ideal solution for removal of colloids from beverages.
Jumbo Star Sartopure® PP filters with pleated surfaces
Jumbo Star Sartopure® PP cartridges combine the highest filtration area on the smallest footprint on the market. Particle-rich beverages can be filtered with Jumbo Star cartridges that are easily and efficiently backwashed with water. This allows for a significant reduction of filtration area, filter consumption and overall costs for filtration.
Aquasart® PS Membrane Filter Cartridge
Aquasart® PS filter cartridges are integrity testable membrane filters especially developed for filtration of water in the Food & Beverage Industry. They are highly asymmetrical and characterised by a unique hydrophilic Polyethersulfone (PESU) membrane offering a broad chemical compatibility, exceptional high flow rates, total throughputs and highest microbiological safety.
Water Sterile filtration before filling into bottles is done through our Aquasart® Plus and Aquasart® PS cartridge filters for 0.2µm sterile filtration but also with Sartobev® for 1µm membrane filtration of bottled water. The air at the filler must be sterile by filtration through Sartofluor® GA and the steam used for the sterilisation has to be cleaned with particle retention through Sartosteel® filters.
Asymmetric membranes that deliver high throughput
High chemical compatibility
Correlation studies between challenge bacterial with Brevundimonas diminuta.
Integrity testability
Filters that comply with EU regulations No 21/2011 and No 1935/2004
Filters which guarantee consistent quality
Filters produced with lot numbers to enable complete traceability
Aquasart® Plus Membrane Filter Cartridge
Aquasart® Plus filter cartridges feature a high-performance, double-layer pleated hydrophilic polyethersulfone membrane. Aquasart® Plus membrane filter cartridges are used for final filtration prior to bottling of water and non-carbonated drinks.
Sartosteel Stainless Steel Depth Filter Cartridge
Sartosteel filters are used for removing particles from liquids and gases (steam) and applied in process such as steam filtration, condensate filtration and water filtration. Sartosteel filter cartridges offer the user maximum security along with low filtration costs.
FAQ´s
The potential risks associated with bottled water include the presence of microorganisms, chemicals, and particulates in the water to be drinken. In the event of contamination, the affected batch would need to be recalled. The presence of microbiological and chemical contaminants can significantly endanger consumer health.
The key factors that influence the quality of bottled water include the source of the water, the bottling process, and the filtration methods used. The source can introduce contaminants such as microorganisms and chemicals, while the bottling process can introduce particulates. Filtration methods are crucial in removing these contaminants and ensuring the safety and quality of the bottled water.
For sterile filtration before water bottling, Sartorius recommends using the Aquasart® familly filter cartridges. These cartridges are designed to provide high filtration efficiency, effectively removing particulates, bacteria, and other contaminants from water. They are suitable for use in the final stages of the water production process, ensuring the delivery of safe and high-quality bottled water. Please note that the specific filtration needs may vary depending on the quality of the source water and the specific requirements of the bottling process.
Water filtration is crucial in the food and beverage industry because water is a critical ingredient in many products. The quality of water can significantly impact the taste, shelf life, and safety of these products.
Jumbo Star cartridges can support regeneration by intensive back wash. The regeneration process, which involves backflushing with filtered water can increase the filtration capacity of the Jumbo Star filter. This process prevents the formation of an inorganic film on the filter's surface, thereby extending its life and reducing production costs.
Resources
Application Notes
Use of Sartopore®2, 0.2μm, 30" MaxiCaps® for Water Filtration Upstream of the Washing Hose Used to Clean and Rinse the Bottle-Filler Exterior
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Utilisation de la Maxicaps 30˝ Sartopore 2 0.2 µm pour la filtration stérilisante de l’eau juste en amont du flexible de lavage de l’extérieur des machines d’embouteillage d’eau
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Data Sheets
Aquasart® PS 1μm - Membrane Filter Cartridge for the Food & Beverage Industry
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JumboStar Sartopure®: High Capacity Particle & Bioburden Reduction Filter Cartridges for Beverage Applications
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Sartofluor® - Cartridges GA, Cartridges LG, Mini Cartridges, Junior, Maxicaps®, Midicaps® & Capsules
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