Guaranteed Pumpability: SEEPEX FlowShred Conditions Fibrous and Bulky Waste for Smooth, Stable Conveying

SEEPEX expands its portfolio with FlowShred, a compact system that grinds organic food waste into pumpable material, combining size reduction and pumping for stable, continuous operation and reduced downtime.

SEEPEX expands its portfolio with FlowShred, a solid conditioning system featuring a twin-shaft grinder that efficiently reduces heterogeneous organic waste from food production and converts it into a pumpable medium. The compact, pre-assembled system combines mechanical size reduction with conveying via an integrated progressive cavity pump, ensuring stable processes, continuous throughput, and minimal downtime.

Technical Key Parameters

• Target particle size: 10–20 mm, optimized for pumpability
• Cutting tools: hardened, corrosion-resistant martensitic stainless steel
• Cutting geometry: snail geometry with varying radius and tooth profile for optimized material intake
• Drive: high torque at low speed for reduced energy consumption
• Conveying: progressive cavity pump with open hopper, installed directly below the grinder
• Optional: Smart Air Injection for extended conveying distances

The coordinated interaction of twin-shaft grinder and progressive cavity pump produces a consistently homogeneous medium, even with widely varying material consistencies. The snail geometry ensures continuous intake of bulky or fibrous materials, preventing bridging at the inlet and maintaining a stable material flow.

Operation and Process Flexibility

FlowShred supports both continuous and intermittent feeding, allowing flexible integration into different production processes. Hardened stainless steel cutting tools reduce wear, minimize downtime, and lower maintenance requirements. At the same time, the enclosed system design ensures clean operation with minimal odor emissions.

Applications and Benefits

• Food production: fruit and vegetable processing, frozen products
• Slaughterhouses and meat processing: efficient handling of by-products
• Fish processing: reliable shredding and homogenization with reduced odor and handling issues
• Biogas plants: increased surface area for faster degradation and improved gas yield

The integrated design ensures reliable transfer of material to collection containers for pickup by external disposal providers or on-site storage systems. Its modular design enables fast and straightforward integration into existing production or waste handling environments.

Conclusion

SEEPEX FlowShred combines process reliability, energy efficiency, and mechanical robustness in a single system. It converts a wide range of food waste into a stable, uniformly conditioned, pumpable medium, reducing operating costs and downtime while enabling flexible integration across industrial applications.

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About SEEPEX

SEEPEX is one of the world’s leading specialists in the field of pump technology. The product portfolio includes progressive cavity pumps, pump systems and digital solutions. SEEPEX also offers innovative solutions for conveying aggressive or abrasive media with low to high viscosities. Since 2021, SEEPEX has been part of the Ingersoll Rand Group, a global supplier of mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions, consisting of more than 40 renowned brands. Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com