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Tackling CIP
Automation
with S88
S88 can aid in automating a clean-in-place system. CHRISTIE DEITZ,
YOGESH RATHI,
EMERSON LIFE SCIENCES
INDUSTRY CENTER
C
lean-in-place (CIP) is a method of cleaning vessels and
lines without disassembling them. It involves delivering
solutions of chemical detergents and rinses at specified
flow rates and temperatures. Typically, a CIP skid
creates the cleaning solutions and routes them to a user skid that
requires cleaning.
CIP is commonly used in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and
cosmetics industries. Originating in the 1950s, early CIP systems
were manually operated. Today, most CIP operations are automated.
However, there are still some common challenges to automating a
CIP system and these are:
• Managing resources
Commonly, a single CIP skid will, at different times, clean several user
skids. There is a need to supply solution to the different user skids
and return to it. If the supply and return paths are not dedicated,
there is a need to ensure that there is no conflict among the paths.
There are two most common physical layouts for CIP systems:
CIP has grown over the last 50 years to be very important in the • Fixed CIP systems connected to multiple user skids by transfer
food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics industries. panels and/or distribution headers. (Fig. 1)
Automating CIP effectively is a key factor in the plant This is the most common approach. Cleaning solutions are routed
running smoothly.
Fig. 4: A physical model for fixed CIP. Fig. 5: A physical model for portable CIP.
user skid. When it requires cleaning, the user skid unit acquires • Minimizing time required for CIP cycle
the portable CIP skid equipment module (EM). Since the user skid If the physical equipment supports it, as in the case of the fixed
unit acquires and drives the CIP skid EM directly, there is no CIP system, the procedural model can be defined so that different
coordination between phases on two different units. phases can run in parallel. This approach can minimize cleaning
Similar to the fixed CIP skid, phases can be modularized in time and allow the user skid more time for making product.
order to increase consistency and decrease the cost of software
development and maintenance. For example, the pre-rinse, acid
wash, post-acid rinse, alkali wash, post-alkali rinse, final rinse,
and air blow can be modularized into one phase with recipe
parameters to handle thedifferences. This modular approach helps
to ensure consistency and also decreases software development
and maintenance costs.
Conclusion
CIP has grown over the last 50 years to be very important in the
food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics industries.
Automating CIP effectively is a key factor in the plant running
smoothly.
Using an S88 approach helps to effectively address the challenges
of CIP automation by driving modularity, which is the key to
making batch logic work efficiently and consistently.
The two most common equipment architectures are fixed CIP skids
that use distribution headers and portable CIP skids. Although
the S88 physical and procedural models are different for each,
applying the S88 modular approach helps tackle the challenges
for either architecture:
• Modularizing software
Using a modular approach makes automation more efficient and
more consistent. Drawing unit and equipment module boundaries
can make it possible to create classes of equipment modules and
units. It can also help to combine sequences into a smaller number
of more modular phases. This approach increases consistency and
decreases development and maintenance costs.
• Managing resources
Drawing unit and equipment module boundaries appropriately
makes it possible to better manage the resources in the plant. CIP
Fig. 9: Minimize CIP cycle time through parallel operations.
distribution headers can be defined and managed as independent
equipment modules in order to avoid resource conflicts. In the case
of the portable CIP skid, the entire CIP system can be managed as www.emersonprocess.com/LifeSciences
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