Spray bars for food manufacturing

Spay bars are used extensively in the food manufacturing industry. They enable the positioning of nozzles along an axis, increasing the coverage area of the spray where it would otherwise be impractical for a single nozzle to cover a wide areas.

While spray bars are most commonly used with hydraulic nozzles, they can be used with all nozzle types including air actuated nozzles, air atomising (see diagram below) and electric nozzles such as the EHP series.

SNP offers easy-to-configure spray bars for applications such as coating, cooling, moistening, lubricating, cleaning, disinfecting and washing. As well as designing new spray bars from scratch according to customer specifications, we also offer a complete swap-in service for customers that want to replace existing spray bars.

Nozzles wear over time, impacting product quality. Our spray bars are designed with future maintenance in mind. Whether a new bar or a swap-in replacement, we retain your design specifications, allowing you to request a complete replacement bar. This enables you to perform scheduled maintenance with minimal downtime and confidence in maintaining the intended spray performance. Our fabrication processes are compliant with requirements of food manufacture and other industries as we and our partners operate under ISO 9001 certification.

One-stop-shop design and fabrication ensures precision

Nozzle placement across a spray bar's horizontal axis is a design specification that requires careful consideration of the nozzle spray characteristics and the intended spray target. The number of nozzles and the spacing between them are key parameters that determine the precision and accuracy of the spray. A lack of proper consideration can lead to inefficient use of the spray liquid. In food industry applications, efficient spray bar design impacts the following:

• Achievement of ingredient tolerances
• Manufactured product quality
• Reduction of water consumption
• Sprayed ingredient cost reduction

Currently, process engineers rely on multiple suppliers to deliver a functional spray bar. This adds significant project risk in the form of delays, spray bar quality issues, increased costs, and uncertainty regarding the accuracy and precision of the spray. Often, process and operational managers are left to deal with inefficiency costs post-installation.

The go-to people for successful spray engineering

At SNP, we apply our four decades of experience, expertise and technical knowledge in spray engineering to the design and production of spray bars. In line with our mission to deliver hassle reduction, optimise efficiencies and give our customers peace of mind, the benefits of using SNP to design your spray bar are:

Hassle reduction

• Reduce design burden
  Using our expertise, we transform your spray application needs and tailored nozzle selections and spray bar design
  
• System integration
  Our spray bars can adapt to your existing setup. Reducing the need to make changes to your setup
  
  
• Fast turnaround time
  
  We aim to deliver a complete spray bar in 4-5 weeks* from initial enquiry.
  * Time estimates exclude delays from customer end

Improved efficiency

• Product production cost
  Our expertise enables us to design a full spray bar system that efficiently delivers the required amount of liquid to the target area. Enabling you control over production costs
• Low downtime
  Following initial order, we can supply an exact swap replacement for both spray bar and nozzles
• Low maintenance
  Our spray bar and nozzle systems do not require any special maintenance. They are designed specifically to enable low down time replacement ensuring low downtime
• Efficient water consumption
  Whether it's coating, washing, cooling our high-quality nozzles and expert teams help us enable our clients to successfully reduce water consumption

Peace of Mind

• Improve process quality as well as food production quality
• Remain within ingredient tolerances
  Our primary focus is helping you achieve your spray goals. Employing our nozzle expertise to ensure you can achieve the desired spray quality and remain within process ingredient tolerances
• Standard compliant
  We operate to Iso 9001 certification
• Reputable trusted suppliers
  Our dedication to supplying customer needs over the ----years has earnt us trust in food manufacture and other vital industries

Request a quote for spray bars

Please click on the attached form to fill in and submit our Spray Bar Specification Sheet.