50% faster, 100% performance

Fast Instant Coffee extractor FIC

In the race to process instant coffee, youve got to be swift and

skilled to succeed. And since winning it takes a huge investment,
its crucial to make sure you get your moneys worth.

Move your business into a higher gear

The FIC performs 50% faster than conventional manual extraction

methods, with a high yield and level of quality other equipment just
cant match. Considering the best finished product starts with the
best extraction and the best extraction is closely tied to extraction
time the FIC ensures youre always up to speed.

GEA Niro is a world leader in industrial drying, with spray drying, spray
cooling/congealing, flash drying, freeze drying, granulation and fluid
bed processing as core technologies. Having installed more than 10,000
plants around the globe, GEA Niro is known for delivering solutions that
meet customers exact requirements. The GEA Niro companies are part

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Unparalleled
flexibility, the
highest obtainable
yield, premium
quality . . . the FIC
is designed to put
your business into
a higher gear.

GEA Niro has contracted and

installed more than 10,000
plants worldwide

GEA Process Engineering

GEA Niro
Gladsaxevej 305 PO Box 45 DK-2860 Soeborg Denmark
Tel +45 39 54 54 54 Fax +45 39 54 58 00
E-mail: foda@niro.dk Website: www.niro.com

BNA 958/GB 1210 CBC

A fully automated, continuous extraction system, the FIC is made

up of eight percolator vessels that operate in a flowing battery design.
Whats more, it can perform in a variety of different modes for a
variety of coffee types. Unparalleled flexibility, the highest obtainable
yield, premium quality . . . its designed to put your business into a
higher gear.

Experience

GEA Process Engineering

GEA Niro

Examples of FIC performance

Coffee type
Extraction yield*
* Based on dry matter

For manufacturers with good taste

The taste of quality
While hydrolysis is the fraction of the extract necessary for effective processing
and a high yield, aroma is the motor of great-tasting coffee. And as you well
know, the more aroma you can extract, contain and preserve in the process, the
better your final product.

Yield here
The coffee beans themselves are obviously your greatest expense. Thats why it is
crucial to ensure your extraction process gets the most out of your valuable beans.

What you might not know, however, is that both time and temperature play a
huge role in determining the quality of the aroma. A short extraction time at
moderate/low temperatures is one key to a high-quality aroma extract. The
FIC speeds up the water flow, ensuring a turbulent flow around the coffee
particles to enhance the extraction rate at the desired temperature.
Having delivered more than 200 instant coffee plants around the world since
our start decades ago, GEA Niro is at the forefront of coffee processing
technology and good taste.

3 modes of
operation

Designing high performance

These days, you dont want to be dependent on a manual process. The FIC,
with its fully automated control, ensures precision processing that meets the
worlds highest standards. Fully integrated with a PC/PLC (Programmable Logic
Controller) system, the FIC offers easy operation and uniform extract quality.

The FIC gives an extremely efficient, high yield with better quality than you can
get from any other equipment a yield of up to 53% or more, with excellent quality.

Steering the process

1. Prior to the extraction process, the roasted coffee must be ground to a
carefully selected particle size to achieve the right water flow and extraction
yield without hindering the flow in the vessels. The grinding is done in two
stages with a screening between to obtain a controlled and narrow particle
distribution.

Turns on a dime
Youre in full control with the FIC. Choose between one, two or all three modes
of operation to create a finished product that is the right match with your market
and your aspirations. And change easily from one to another mode at your
discretion. The FIC can do it all.

2. Effective extraction requires that all coffee particles come into contact with
the extraction water. The roasted and ground coffee is therefore pre-wetted in
a mixer that ensures uniform wetting. Pre-wetting actually has two purposes:
to avoid channelling of the extraction water and to help de-gas the coffee
particles to avoid foam formation.

The traditional instant

coffee mode

from 125 kg/h up to

Roast coffee
receiving hopper
Rotary valve
Magnetic
separator
Granulizer

Sifter
Granulizer

3. The pre-wetted coffee is filled into the extractors; at the same time air is
removed from the extractor to ensure correct packing of the coffee. Then a
high vacuum removes all remaining gas in the coffee.

High velocity single/split: for quality coffee

Feed water

Available capacities

4. The actual extraction is a high-speed, double extraction process. Double

extraction means that extraction of the aroma compounds at temperatures
below 120C takes place separately in as quickly as 15-20 minutes. The resulting
aroma extract is of extremely high quality. And the speed makes it a very
efficient process.

single/split

1,500 kg/h solids in

the extract. Pilot plant
available as well.

A compact design also reduces space requirements compared to standard

battery extraction units. In fact, every FIC component is designed to the
highest manufacturing standards for efficient, long-lasting performance.

100% robusta 100% arabica

%53 %47

Premoistening

Multi-way
distributor
Percolators

Hydrolysis
extract flow

The most common mode for

instant coffee production

High velocity dual/split: for high-quality coffee

Steam

Feed water

Soaking water

6. The design of the extractors and the preparation of the roasted and ground
coffee make the higher liquid velocity and shorter extraction time possible.
The FIC decreases overall extraction time from the conventional 200-240
minutes to roughly 120 minutes.

dual/split

Aroma
extract flow

Spent grounds

The mode for premium

instant coffee production

5. Aroma extraction is followed by extraction of the hydrolysed compounds in

the coffee. This also takes place at water speeds up to twice that of conventional
extraction, resulting in a much shorter extraction time and a turbulent flow.
Again, the shorter extraction time gives better extract quality, and the
turbulent flow increases extraction efficiency.

High velocity dual/dual: for premium coffee

Steam

Feed water

Soaking water

Book a test drive

If youre interested in learning more about the FIC, please contact

FIC extractor
bottom view.

GEA Niro at +45 3954 5454 or foda@niro.dk. Were happy to answer

dual/dual

your questions on the phone or via email, or to arrange a completely

no-obligation meeting at your facility.

Producing the highest

quality of coffee requires
the greatest water usage.
Spent grounds

Hydrolysis
extract flow

The FIC can be sold as a

separate unit or as part of
an entire coffee processing
solution from GEA Niro.