Heated Strainer tank 125kg

01 · THE WAX FLOATS, SO IT DOES NOT CLOG

Continuous filtering without stopping to clean

Inside go the 0.35 mm conical nylon filter held by its ring, and the perforated stainless steel cone. The honey comes in, the wax impurities rise to the surface instead of packing against the mesh, and the flow stays steady.

The lower tap is left shut at the start so the level climbs to the upper one; from there you draw the already filtered honey off through the upper tap, straight into settling tanks or drums, while the tank keeps working.

02 · THE THERMOSTAT IS NOT THE HONEY

Work at the minimum that lets the honey through

The maker indicates 60-65 °C on the heater so the honey flows easily through the mesh. That figure describes the appliance, not what suits the product: above 40 °C the HMF rises and the diastase falls, and the honey around the element is hotter than the setpoint.

What does work in your favour is time: thermal load is temperature times time, and here the honey passes the element and moves on. Taking advantage of that means setting the minimum at which the honey still flows, not the maximum the appliance allows, and not leaving the tank hot with honey standing in it.

03 · 125 KG OF TANK, 500 A DAY

Two figures that are not the same thing

The tank holds about 125 kg — 43 cm of internal diameter and 78 of height — and the maker gives a throughput of up to 500 kg of honey a day. One is what fits inside; the other is what goes through it in a shift if you keep feeding it.

That is the scale of someone running fifty hives upwards. The bottom slopes to the lower tap, welded flush, so it empties without residue; and the steel is welded seamless, which is what makes it genuinely cleanable.

04 · TWO OUTLETS, TWO THREADS

And they are worth checking before connecting anything

The bottom outlet is a 1½ inch tap — the DN40 of the honey line — welded level with the floor. The upper one, for the filtered honey, is a DN 50 dairy thread with a 2 inch tap.

That dairy thread is the DIN 11851 standard, the same as the sanitary valves and fittings in the catalogue; it does not connect to Clamp fittings without an adapter. The DANA api THERMA heater, 1,000 W at 230 V, is included, and so is the lid.

05 · BEFORE YOU BUY

Commercial filtering, with the thermostat under control.