CIP and Innovative cleaning techniques
2-day Cleaning in Place course for producers and equipment suppliers in Food, Feed and Pharma.
Attention is paid to types and nature of soil, the processes involved in its removal, and to the CIP system, which pumps all cleaning fluids throughout the factory. How can you be sure this system can - and will continue to - fulfill its purpose, and how do you validate it? Open cleaning systems and new designs are also addressed. Preceding the EHEDG Advanced Course of 1-4 December 2026.
The course covers all new automatic cleaning systems, not only pipes and tanks, but also automatic cleaning of open systems such as conveyor belts, filling machines or other equipment. Robot-CIP or r-CIP is the future. In this way you can not only save on the total cleaning costs (and down-time), but it is also the only way to guarantee that you can start with clean equipment.
Experienced trainer
Burggraaf & Partners has been specialized since 1993 in advising the food industry and pharmacy, and machine builders in this area. In practically all sectors (bakery, fruit and vegetables, dairy, meat, beverages, biotechnology), the agency is active and together with various organisations it has provided dozens of training courses in this area.
Practical info
Location: Aristo, Amsterdam
Date: Monday 30 November & Tuesday 1 December 2026
Time: Mo 08.30 – 17.30, Tu 08.30 - 12.30
Costs: € 1.475,- (excl. VAT). When also signing up for the Advanced course Hygienic Design or before 1 September 2026: Euro 1200.
Trainer: Ir. Wouter Burggraaf, member EHEDG, authorised trainer
Topics to be covered:
Introduction Cleaning in Place
- History of CIP; developments in the various sectors (food, pharma, other)
Principles of Cleaning:
- Types of soil, formation of soil layer
- Sinner circle, cleaning mechanisms
- Flow behaviour (Reynolds, boundary layer theory)
Detergents and disinfectants
- Types and selection
- Foam cleaning
- Disinfectants (type, legislation)
- Effect on materials (plastics, rubbers)
Criteria for Hygienic design of process equipment
- Conditions for cleaning of equipment
- EHEDG criteria of hygienic design
- Geometry
- Surface roughness
- Welding quality
Principles of SIP
- Chemical, thermal
- Accessibility, bacterial density, aseptic
- Biosafety
Design of CIP installation
- Lost cleaning, circulation with / without recovery
- CIP process steps
- CIP parts & measuring instruments
- Determination / calculation design CIP / SIP installation
CIP piping systems
- Valve and pump selection
- Pipe system
- Thermic expansion
- Pressure drop calculation
Spraying systems
- Principles
- Impact
- Requirements, selection, different types (advantages and disadvantages)
- Shadow fields
- Determination / calculation of spraying systems
Special techniques
- Mole systems,
- Emptying with air,
- Water hammer measurement,
- CIP robot,
- Air / water cleaning
Validation CIP/SIP system
- Determination / calculation of CIP times (tank, pipes, heat exchanger)
- Validation and verification techniques
- GMP (OK, IK, BK, PK, qualifications)
- Revalidation
- Check of changes
- Cleaning Validation Protocol
- Monitoring
Examples from practice
- Disinfection of rooms (clean room; insulator; packaging machine)
- WIP-CW cleaning / Cleaning of dry processes
- CIP cleaning of conveyor systems
- CIP cleaning of trucks and tankers
With (a lot of) video material:
- Cleaning agents and disinfectants
- EHEDG testing: cleanability, steam sterilisability
- CIP systems
- Spraying systems
- Valves
- CIP return pump
- Emptying pipe systems
- Foam cleaning
- Carbonic cleaning
