How to Size a CIP System for a Dairy or Liquid Egg Plant
CIP is the equipment most often bought too small. How to size tank volume, flow and the number of tanks from your circuits and cleaning window.
Turnkey Lines
Liquid Egg Processing Line
A liquid egg line has four jobs to get right: eggs arrive clean and dry, they are broken without shattering the shell, one bad egg never reaches the tank, and the liquid is pasteurised inside the narrow temperature window egg protein allows.
We build every stage and size them against each other, working back from your egg supply and shift pattern rather than forward from a machine rating — buying more capacity than your supply supports is the most common and most expensive mistake on a first egg line.
Process flow
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- 1 Washing, drying and candling
Sectional washing line, 10,000–15,000 eggs/h on the 2-row model.
Egg Washing Lines - 2 Grading
5 or 7 weight grades, 4,000–11,000 eggs/h, to keep the breaker in its size range.
Egg Grading Machines - 3 Breaking and separation
Chain-type breaker, 5,400–16,000 eggs/h, with per-egg inspection and separate white/yolk outlets.
Egg Breaking Machines - 4 Buffer tank
Converts the surge flow from the breaker into constant flow for the pasteuriser.
Liquid Egg Storage Tanks - 5 Pasteurisation
White 56–57 °C, whole egg 60 °C, yolk 60–61 °C, 3.5 minute hold.
Liquid Egg Pasteurizers - 6 Chilled storage
Agitated, insulated tanks until packing.
Liquid Egg Storage Tanks - 7 Filling
Bag-in-box, bucket or bottle filling integrated to your format.
- 8 CIP
Separate from any dairy circuit.
CIP Cleaning Systems
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From our workshop
From enquiry to commissioning
- You send your requirements
Raw material, target product, capacity, local voltage and frequency, heating source and destination port. If you are not sure about some of these, tell us what you do know.
- We send a process proposal
A process flow, an equipment list with specifications, a suggested layout and a quotation. If more than one configuration makes sense, we explain the trade-off instead of sending one option.
- We manufacture and test
Fabrication, welding, polishing and assembly in our own workshop. Standard machines ship in 20 days; a complete line in 40–45 days.
- Installation and training
Our engineers travel to site — typically 4 days for installation, commissioning and operator training. Travel and accommodation are covered by the buyer.
Questions buyers ask
What is the smallest egg line that makes sense?
Our smallest breaker is rated at 5,400 eggs per hour. Below a few thousand eggs a day, manual breaking is usually still cheaper than a machine. Use the egg line calculator on this site, or send us your daily supply, and we will tell you honestly whether a machine pays.
Can the egg line share a building with a dairy line?
Yes, but not the same product circuits or CIP. Egg is an allergen and the two products have different cleaning requirements. We can design both lines to share utilities — steam, water, chilled water — while keeping product contact separate.
Engineering guides
Starting a Liquid Egg Plant: Capacity, Yield and the First Equipment List
Work back from your egg supply, not forward from a machine rating. How to size a first liquid egg line and which stages buyers most often forget.
Tell us about your process
About three minutes. An engineer reads every request and replies with questions or a process proposal — not an automatic price list.