Passion fruit is one of the most difficult tropical juices to clarify because the pulp carries hard black seeds, a large volume of fine fibrous tissue and a high content of suspended solids that settles slowly. The HD-DEC-360 decanter centrifuge addresses all three problems in a single continuous pass. Juice arriving from the pulper is fed into a high speed bowl, where the centrifugal field of up to 3600 G drives seed fragments and fibrous solids against the bowl wall, and