Brewcraft Wine Filter & Pump

INTRODUCTION

The following manual contains the absolutely necessary information for correct use and maintenance for the filters.

INSTRUCTIONS / WARNINGS

The user must follow the accident prevention measures in force in their respective country.

During maintenance or repair of the filter always UNPLUG the machine from the electrical supply whatever maintenance, installation, and when moving the filter . Any electrical equipment with an applied voltage might cause a serious accident.

During functioning do not move nor shift the machine.

Before using the machine, always check that power cable and all electric al devices are not damaged.

Before connecting the plug to the electrical power supply or turning on the machine with the switch, the user must be sure of:

•not being barefoot

•not having foot/feet immersed in the water

•not having wet hands

The user must not execute on his own initiative operations that are not reported in this manual.

The filter has been designed in order that all the moving parts are safe with appropriate protection. Brewcraft & GRIFO DO NOT ACCEPT ANY responsibility in the case of damages caused by tampering with the filter and its protections. Brewcraft & GRIFO snc company are not responsible for any accident, consequential damage or injury due to a not proper use of the filter.

USE OF THE FILTER

The Brewcraft Filter can be used to filter:

•Wine

•Other liquids of a low volume of alcohol

With the Brewcraft Filter you actually get two products- a filter & a wine pump.

By disconnecting the hose which links the pump to the filtering unit, you can use the electric pump only for the transferring of wine without filtering.

INSTRUCTION FOR FILTRATION

•Connect the pipes as shown in the figure, tightening them with suitable hose clamp ( do not over

tighten as you may strip the thread or even break the hose tail)

STERILISE the pump, hose & plates with any Brewcraft sterilising agent prior to use.

•Select the type of filter paper suitable to the kind of job to execute (see table below).

•Wet the paper filters with wine or water

Insertion of Filter Sheets

• Filter Sheets should be inserted with one sheet between each set of plates. The sheets have a rough and a smooth side. The “smooth” side appears to have a very fine crosshatch pattern to it while the “rough” side appears similar to frothy milk. The sheets need to be inserted into the machine in a rough-smooth-smooth-rough pattern, starting with a rough side facing the endplate at the pump side.

• Each of the plates has a barb which accepts a rubber gasket to seal the system. Once everything is in place, tighten the hand wheel so that there is sufficient pressure to seal the system while it is running – this will need to be pretty tight.

• *Note: Do not leave any spaces between the plates empty. If you run short of pads, remove the appropriate number of plates so that the filtering set up runs sheet-plate-sheet-plate all the way through. Failure to “fill” the filter with sheets will result in leakage during use.

•Fill the pump housing FIRST with wine BEFORE starting the pump – remove one of the hose tails from the pump housing to fill. NOTE the operating pressure per the filter paper chart below.

•When the maximum pressure for the carton filters has been reached on the pressure guage you will also note the flow of wine has slowed & the pads begin to leak more wine from the filter frame shut down the pump and loosen the clamping hand-wheel remove the dirty paper filters.

•To start a new filtration repeat the operation.

•Never shut down the pump during the filtration.

•WARNING: filter performances can vary depending on the characteristics of the wine to filter. A very cloudy and young wines reduces can limit the capacity of the filter papers . It is strongly recommended that you use a clearing agent to flock the wine prior to a final filtration. Not only will this reduce the cost of pads but it will in most cases be of benefit for the stability of the wine in the long term.

Visit your local Brewcraft stockist for a complete range of wine stabilising and fining agents to be used PRIOR to filtration

•WARNING: solids as, seeds, fillets, peels, leaves must NOT be in the wine to filter. Warranty can be suspended in case of failure due to the presence of solid parts in the wine to be filtered. The filter is supplied with a suction cage which must be attached to the suction hose to prevent any solids being sucked into the pump. Most solids will be eliminated with careful winemaking procedures & racking of the wine prior to filtering.

CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE

Any kind of maintenance operation has to be carried out with the electric plug removed from its power source.

•When the filtration is terminated place both inlet & outlet hoses into a clean 20lt bucket of water with Brewcraft “COLD WATER ECD” to wash both pipes and plates. Drain the water from the pump housing and remove all the nylon filter plates and seals for proper cleaning – DO NOT REPLACE THE SEALS ON THE FILTER PLATES AFTER CLEANING – they will stretch with time and not seat properly for a complete seal next time the filter is used.

•The filter has to placed in a dry place, protected from dust and humidity.

Characteristics of carton filters

TYPE	USE	PRESSURE [Kg/cm2]	FLOW RATE [litre/hour] (10 filtering paperboards)	PURPOSE
FOR NEW WINES PARTICULARLY CLOUDY
CKP V.8	FINE-SHAPING	2.5	650
CKP V.12	MIDDLE POLISHING	2.5	500	FOR WINES COMPLETELY FERMENTED
CKP V.16	POLISHING	2.0	350	FOR RED WINES POLISHING
CKP V.18	PRE-STERILIZING	2.0	300	FOR WHITE WINES POLISHING

Characteristics of filtering layers

CLARIFICATION POWER	SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS OF THE FILTERING LAYERS
TYPE	ROUGH MIDDLE FINE STERILE
V18/ V20	Polishing filtration to sterilize wine with sugary residual not fermented, filtering with protection of micro-porous membranes. Recommended flow rate: 220 litres of wine/hour Operating pressure: 1-1.5Bar (Values referred to 10 filtering layers)
V16	Perfect polishing of wines with scarce bacterial rate, polishing of distillates, polishing of cosmetic solution. Recommended flow rate: 350 litres of wine/hour Operating pressure: 1.5-2.5Bar (Values referred to 10 filtering layers)
V12	Polishing of completely fermented red wines, polishing of dry spirits, for all the polishing process which can de considered as semi-fine. Recommended flow rate: 500 litres of wine/hour Operating pressure: 1.5-2.5Bar (Values referred to 10 filtering layers)
V8	Filtration of new wines even with high turbidity, clarification of sugary spirits, polishing of alimentary oils. Recommended flow rate: 650 litres of wine/hour Operating pressure: 2-2.5Bar (Values referred to 10 filtering layers)

( Note : the operating pressure listed will vary for the 6 plate filter by 0.4 to 0.6 BAR )

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