Passion fruit is deceptive. The juice itself is easy to clarify, but the stream carries hard black seeds and tough fibrous sacs that destroy pumps, block plate heat exchangers and score the seats of homogeniser valves within a single season. Presses and paddle finishers leave a large share of that load in the juice. The LWS500 decanter centrifuge removes it mechanically and continuously, at a capacity of 20 to 25 tonnes per hour, before the juice reaches any downstream