Patent ID: 9561513
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: B04B,C11B

Claim:
1. A method for the continuous processing of a product such as a vegetable or animal oil or fat, the processing occurring via a separation into two liquid phases and a solids phase, the method steps comprising: processing the product, the processing occurring in a centrifuge arranged as a separator, the separator including a rotatable drum, a disk stack having risers arranged in the drum, a product feed having a feed tube, a first separator disk to discharge a lighter liquid phase from the drum, a second separator disk to discharge a heavier liquid phase from the drum, a solids discharge opening to discharge a solids phase from the drum, and a separator zone formed between the lighter phase and the heavier phase in the separator; and adjusting a discharge radius for discharging the heavier liquid phase when a viscosity of the heavier liquid phase exceeds a limit value; wherein when the viscosity of the heavier liquid phase increases, an inlet of the second separator disk for discharging the heavier liquid phase is moved from a smaller radius to a larger radius in the drum, and after the discharge of the heavier liquid phase up to a radius that is reached with the second separator disk, the second separator disk is set back to the smaller radius in the drum.