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Sanitary Stainless Steel Rotary Lobe Pump for High Viscosity Cheese Transfer

Bonve specializes in high-precision, low-shear pumping solutions for the global dairy industry, addressing the complex fluid-handling challenges of cheese curd, cream cheese, melted cheese, and viscous cheese sauces.

As a leading factory manufacturer, Bonve sanitary rotary lobe pumps are engineered for exceptionally gentle transfer. Our technology is designed to protect the delicate texture of cheese curds and preserve the consistent quality of processed dairy products throughout the entire production cycle. This food-grade positive displacement pump ensures steady media flow from fermentation and curdling through to drainage, mixing, and final packaging.


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Sanitary Cheese Transfer Rotary Lobe Pump


Cheese transportation involves managing non-Newtonian fluids that are often highly viscous, sticky, or extremely shear-sensitive.


Production lines must overcome several critical hurdles:

 

Preserving Curd Integrity: In natural cheese production, the pump must transfer cheese curds without crushing or damaging the fragile solids. Mechanical damage during pumping leads to high fines in the whey, reducing overall yield and affecting the final product's texture.


Managing High Viscosity & Stickiness: Materials like cream cheese or melted cheese mass exhibit extreme viscosity and adhesive properties. Conventional pumps often suffer from cavitation, low suction efficiency, or complete pipeline blockages.


Shear Sensitivity & Texture Protection: Processed cheese products are sensitive to mechanical shear. High-speed rotation can cause fat separation (oiling out) or loss of the desired creamy consistency, degrading the consumer experience.


Why Choose Bonve Cheese Transfer Solutions?


Bonve provides a reliable, hygienic, and efficient solution to the specific demands of cheese processing:


Gentle Low-Shear Transfer: Our large-volume rotor design and low-speed operation provide a "soft" pumping action. This ensures that cheese curds remain intact and processed cheese maintains its smooth, uniform texture without degradation.


Superior Viscous Handling with Heating Jackets: Bonve pumps feature powerful self-priming capabilities. For temperature-sensitive cheese products, we offer optional Heating Jackets to maintain consistent temperature, preventing the product from solidifying and ensuring smooth flow.


Ultimate Hygienic Compliance: With a dead-zone free internal design and polished SS316L surfaces, Bonve pumps eliminate bacterial growth risks. The robust mechanical seal system prevents product leakage and protects the high-value dairy media from external contamination.


Operational Reliability & Less Downtime: Engineered for 24/7 heavy-duty operation, our pumps reduce unplanned maintenance, improving the overall efficiency of your dairy production line.

 

Interchangeable
1.Interchangeable rotors, one pump multi-purpose.

2.Targeted seal for specific application, ensure zero leakage.

Easy maintenance
1.Compact structure, easy assembling and disassembling.
2.Maintenance in place, easy cleaning. CIP able and SIP able.
3.Few wearing parts, low maintenance.

Long life
1.All main parts proceed by CNC, high precision fabrication.
2.No contact between the rotors, rotors and pump chamber.
3.six bearings with separate arrangement, high balance.
4.Adjustable seal ring extends the shaft life.
5.Axis key synchronous adjustment, no rotor collision problem.


Food Grade Cheese Transfer Pump


Bonve has an advantage over lobe pump that no other company can match.


1.Rotor:The error of the rotors processed by CNC is extremely small. The unique rotor perfectly seals the inlet and outlet of the pump. The vacuum degree of the pump is up to -0.095MPA. The rotor material and type can be selected according to the characteristics of the pumped product.

 

2.Shaft: The transmission shaft is processed by CNC machining center, which has characteristics of high precision, high bending strength and strong wear resistance.

 

3.Pump cavityThe pump cavity is sealed by a pump cover that can be opened quickly, enabling quick maintenance of the pump. The pump body is processed by CNC machining.

 

4.Gears:High-precision, High-Standard synchronous gears have good meshing, smooth transmission, low noise, and excellent bearing capacity.

 

5.Mechanical seal:The seal material and type are selected according to the characteristices of the pumped product, to ensure zero leakage, no pollution, and more environmental production.

 

6.Bearings: Six bearings arranged in a separate arrangement increase the concentricity of the pump operation, enhance the bearing capacity of the shaft and make the pump running more stable, thereby increasing the service life of the shaft and the mechanical seal.

 

7.Gear boxThe gear box is processed by CNC, with high precision, high concentricity and strong versatility.

 

8.Spindle:We use splines the bearings and spindle, makes the pump less likely to slip. The high-precision spline makes the pump run more smoothly, and the service life is much higher than that of its peers.


More applications


In addition to chocolate transfer applications,Bonve stainless steel lobe pumps are widely used in the food, dairy, confectionery, beverage, and wine industries.  Typical transfer media include: condensed milk, cheese, mayonnaise, yogurt, honey, syrup, sucrose, ketchup, tomato paste, butter, concentrated juice, jam, ice cream,  yeast slurry, meat paste, jelly, condiments, soy protein, various beverages, and wine.




 Working Principle  


Food Grade Rotary Lobe Pumps

 

Bonve lobe pumps basically consist of two lobe rotors, which rotate synchronously driven by a pair of synchronous gears in the gearbox. The rotors are driven by the main shaft and sub-shaft to rotate in a synchronous reverse direction, which changes the pump capacity, builds up high vacuum and discharge pressure, thus an efficient pumping is formed. Gap is kept between the rotors and between the pump casing, no friction, long life, no damage, no physical and chemical reaction to the pumped products.


Bi-wing rotor diagram

 

 

Tri-lobe rotors diagram

 

 

 

Main Parts of the Complete Pump


Bonve complete pumps are usually composed of bare shaft pump, coupling and its guard, geared motor and baseplae. With your order, bare shaft pump or complete pump is supplied.

 

 

 

Bare Shaft Pump Structure


Based on the port direction, we have the pump with horizontal port and vertical port to meet your site installation.

 

 

Structure Details

 

 

 

Complete Pump Types

 

Sanitary Rotary Lobe Pump for Yogurt


 Technical Parameters


Model

Displace

-ment

RPM

Flow

Dis. Pre.

Power

Vacuum

Port size

Max

viscosity

 

(L/r)

(r/min)

(m³/h)

(Mpa)

(kW)

(Mpa)

(mm)

(cp)

25BV12-05

0.06

10-1000

0-0.5

0-1.2

0.37-1.1

-0.080

25

1,500,000

40BV12-2

0.15

10-1000

0-2

0-1.2

0.75-2.2

-0.080

40

1,500,000

50BV12-5

0.32

10-800

0-5

0-1.2

1.5-4

-0.085

50

1,500,000

65BV12-10

0.65

10-600

0-10

0-1.2

2.2-7.5

-0.085

65

1,500,000

80BV12-20

1.74

10-500

0-20

0-1.2

4-15

-0.095

80

1,500,000

90BV12-30

2.60

10-500

0-30

0-1.2

5.5-22

-0.095

100

1,500,000

100BV12-40

3.65

10-500

0-40

0-1.2

7.5-30

-0.095

100

1,500,000

125BV12-50

4.60

10-500

0-50

0-1.2

7.5-37

-0.095

125

1,500,000

140BV12-70

6.10

10-500

0-70

0-1.2

11-45

-0.095

150

1,500,000

150BV12-80

7.63

10-500

0-80

0-1.2

11-55

-0.095

150

1,500,000

200BV12-120

11.56

10-400

0-120

0-1.2

15-75

-0.095

200

1,500,000

250BV12-150

14.22

10-400

0-150

0-1.2

18.5-90

-0.095

250

1,500,000

300BV12-200

20.80

10-300

0-200

0-1.2

22-110

-0.095

300

1,500,000

350BV12-300

32.60

10-250

0-300

0-1.2

45-160

-0.095

350

1,500,000

400BV12-400

50.40

10-250

0-400

0-1.2

55-200

-0.095

400

1,500,000

Note:
1. Tested medium: water. 
2. Speed, flow rate, electrical power and pressure will be varified according to different product properties.


 Selection Guidelines


Your Industry

 

About pump medium

Name:

Density (g/m³):

Viscosity (mPa.s):

Temperature (℃):

PH value:

Solid content (%):

Solid size (mm):

Suction side

Pressure: Positive (    ) bar; Negtive (    ) bar

How high (m):

Suction pipe length (m):

Diameter (mm):

Bends (Pcs):

T-piece (Pcs):

Valves (Pcs):

Discharge side

Pressure (Mpa):

Vertical delivery pipe length (m):

Total delivery pipe length (m):

Diameter (mm):

Bends (Pcs):

T-piece (Pcs):

Valves (Pcs):

Required flow rate (L/H)

Operating flow:

Max. flow:

Pump material required

SS304 (    )  SS316 (    )  SS316L (    )  Duplex stainless steel (    )

Motor required

Phase: Single (    )

Three (    )

Voltage (V):

Frequency (Hz):

IP grade:

Energy efficiency:

Anti-explosive:

Installation type

Fixed (    )

Movable (    )

Fixed with adjusting feet (    )

Others

 


8 steps for your guideline to select Bonve pump
1. Your product name
2. Product viscosity in pump, line and at rest

3. Are there any solids present, if so what are they and percentage concentration
4. Specific gravity

5. Capacity required

6. Pumping temperature

7. Discharge pressure or sketch of pipework system
8. Suction pressure or sketch of pipework system


About us


Direct Source Food Grade Pumps

 

BONVE is a Chinese leading manufacturer in ROTARY LOBE PUMPS and HOMOGENIZER MIXERS. Providing its customers with customized pumping and mixing solutions and solving their problems during the production.

Bonve pumps and mixers are widely used in food, dairy, beverages, chemical, pulp&paper, soaps&detergents, pharmaceuticals, pesticide, coatings etc. By 2024, Bonve served 8,000+ customers in various industries and 100,000+ pumps running in the worldwide.

Time and again companies specify Bonve pumps as the "standard" equipment for  their manufacturing processed. We are looking forward to be partner with you.


Certificate


Bonve ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO45001 certificates ensure quality consistency, compliance reliability, environmental responsibility, and operational efficiency, delivering trustworthy and sustainable partnerships for our clients.

With CE and FDA certificates,Bonve pumps are globally recognized. These certificates open doors to major markets, and they're a testament to our pumps excellence for you.




How customers' comments on Bonve Lobe pump 


Comment on the pumps surface finish

We worked with are-seller in food industry and they are very happy withBonve lobe pump surface smooth finish and price.

If your team is dealing with similar pain points—whether it's subpar materials, inconsistent finishes, or non-compliant equipment—let's connect. We're here to deliver the same peace of mind and performance to your operations.


 

Feedback on Bonve lobe pump inner structure and running

We worked withthecompanies in chemical industry and they are satisfied with our pump silent and smooth running. If you want to get rid of such usage troubles of yourexisting pumps, we are ready to provide you with the same high-value solution.




FAQ


1. Warranty Policy
Standard: 15 months from manufacturing date.
Service: Free replacement parts within 3 workdays for non-human quality issues.
Extended warranty: Available upon request (e.g., for projects).
2. Operation Guidance
Provided with full English manual (installation, operation) and training files (maintenance, troubleshooting).
Remote technical support available if needed.
3. Shipping Arrangement
Partner with reliable forwarders; support sea (standard) or air freight.
Share your nearest port/airport for CIF quotes (cost + insurance + freight).
4. Payment Terms
TT (Telegraphic Transfer) or LC (Letter of Credit).
5. Delivery Time
Bare shaft pumps: 7 workdays (standard).
Complete pumps with motor: 20 workdays (standard).
6. Packaging
Solid fumigation-free plywood cases.
7. Pre-Order Spec Confirmation
We send a spec form (flow rate, head, etc.) for confirmation; technical drawings/photos available if needed.
8. Post-Warranty Support
Paid parts (preferential prices, 3-5 workdays delivery).
Paid on-site/remote technical help; customized annual maintenance plans for long-term clients.
9. Custom Solutions
Supported: Adjust material (stainless steel/cast iron), parameters (flow rate/head), or design (vertical/mobile).
Lead time: 20-30 workdays (varies by complexity); progress updates provided.


Contact Us


We welcome you to contact us for a Cheese Transfer Pump solution if have any demand.  

Contact person: Anna Chang

Tel: +86-574-87769810 Fax: +86-574-62962898

Mobile/Whatsapp/Wechat: 0086-13375846933

Email:bvsales1@bonvepumps.com 






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