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Littelfuse products deliver protection, safe control and distribution of electrical power to optimize your food and beverage processing operations. The comprehensive line of industrial fuses, relays, surge protective devices, sensors, capacitors, contactors and transformers help minimize electrical safety hazards, limit equipment damage, improve productivity and safeguard personnel. From dairies to wineries and meat processing to bakeries, Littelfuse products can help protect your equipment and people.

Littelfuse Food and Beverage Capabilities

Product Categories for Food and Beverage

Field Success Story

Littelfuse Arc-Flash Relays are the Main Ingredient in Safety and Reduced Downtime A major beer manufacturer saw a need to reduce hign incident energy for a 480 V DS style switchgear application to a PPE category below 8 cal/cm2. They were considering ARMS (Arc Flash Maintenance System Breakers) but chose the Littelfuse AF0500 arc-flash relay instead. The AF0500 proved to be more cost effective than installing ARMS breakers throughout the facility. The AF0500 was installed and the substation was back online in 4.5 hours. Cheers!

Equipment Application

Use this guide to understand what Littelfuse protection products can be used in the equipment found in food and beverage operations.

Equipment Application
Boilers
Chillers
Cooling Towers
Conveyers
Drying Equipment
Feeders
Grain Silos
Heat Exchangers
Mixers
Process Piping
Refrigeration Equipment
Steam Cooking
Transformers
UPS & Conditioning

Littelfuse Technology
Arc-Flash Relays	Current Monitoring Relays	Feeder Protection	Ground-Fault Relays	Shock-Block GFCI	Motor & Pump Protection	NGRs & NGR Monitors	Timers	Voltage Monitors	Surge Protective Devices	UL Class Fuses	Midget Fuses	High-Speed Fuses	Capacitors	Contactors	Transformers

Sizing a Neutral Grounding Resistor

One of the most critical decisions when designing stable and safe electrical systems is system grounding. The key parameter that determines the neutral grounding resistor’s affect on the circuit is the let-through current. This video will focus on how to determine what level of let-through current to specify when designing a resistance-grounded system.

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White Paper: Ground Fault Protection and VFDs

Death and injuries make ground (earth) faults one of the most essential hazards to mitigate. High-resistance grounding provides significant protection for equipment and personnel. Unfortunately, when variable frequency drives (VFDs) are used in resistance-grounded systems, the system may not be able to effectively detect low-level ground faults unless the equipment is adjusted accordingly. This paper explains why using VFDs in high-resistance grounding systems can be problematic and provides an in-depth discussion of how they can be overcome.

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Whitepaper: Achieving Electrical Safety by Design

Typically the first line of defense is PPE, but that doesn't mean it's the most effective. It's become clear that there is a need for greater controls to reduce both the risk and incidence of electrical hazards. Both prevention and elimination are far more effective and there are certain safety control points where components can be used to design safety into plant electrical systems.

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Electrical Safety Infographic

A Littelfuse, we value safety for people as well as protection for equipment. We created this infographic to help close some electrical safety knowledge gaps that our recent poll uncovered. Because, at the heart of it all, nothing is more important than safety.

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Shock Safety Report

The flashier something is, the greater its power to captivate our attention-and hazards are not an exception. Maybe this is why the industry tends to forget how dangerous electrical shock is, even though electrical shock accounts for more than 90 % of electrical fatalities-100% in 2018-among US workers. Or, maybe it is because we don't have a full understanding of how many fatalities were due to electrical shock each year because many are categorized under a different cause of death, or that the "steadily declining trend" of electrical fatalities among us workers is in fact, a myth.

Shock Safety Report

Whitepaper: What's Your Relay Telling You

Smart motor protection relays provide the ultimate combination of protection and troubleshooting. By accessing information on a built-in screen or through the loT, smart relays give real-time data that helps you detect problems plus understand the causes that contribute to them.

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Food and Beverage

Littelfuse products deliver protection, safe control and distribution of electrical power to optimize your food and beverage operations and keep people safe. The comprehensive line of industrial fuses and relays help minimize electrical safety hazards, limit equipment damage, improve processing productivity, and safeguard personnel.