Case Study: Crane Engineering achieves reduced downtime and cleaner process fluid with Eaton self-cleaning filtration

Co-Packer Depends On Eaton To Keep Frozen Sausage Production Flowing

Crane Engineering worked with Eaton to solve a costly contamination problem in a frozen sausage co-packing operation. The customer’s glycol/water process fluid was getting clogged by debris in the chiller system, causing over-temperature incidents, production downtime, and expensive fluid replacement and maintenance.

Eaton first proved out a self-cleaning filter approach with the DCF-800, then Crane Engineering installed an Eaton DCF-3000 automatic self-cleaning filter for the full 1,000 gpm application. The result was a far more stable filtration process with little to no maintenance: the first DCF-3000 ran 3.5 years with no maintenance or downtime, stopped the screens from plugging, and helped reduce lost product and shutdown risk.

Crane Engineering

Jeff Simpson

Fluid Process and Industrial Wastewater Engineer