Lysine-HCl

Lysine, one of the essential amino acids, is industrially produced by fermentation. Beginning with the clear filtrated fermentation liquors, GEA Messo PT has designed several plants including the pre-concentration, the ammonia stripping, the conversion to Lysine-HCl and the continuous Lysine-HCl dihydrate crystallization. The normal quality reached is of animal grade, whereas the re-crystallization of the animal grade will result in a white and pure product of food grade quality.

Our plants are characterized by:

• High energy efficiency due to the integration of evaporation, crystallization and stripping.
• High yield due to the use of a 2^nd crop crystallization.
• Optimum purity due to the integration of first and second crop (purge) crystallization together with food grade re-crystallization.
• Compared to batch systems the continuous crystallization is able to provide improved constant quality in particle size and purity.
• Excellent crystal size due to the use of DTB crystallizer technology.
  

For Lysine GEA Messo PT (crystallization) cooperates with GEA Wiegand in the field of evaporation.