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This paper presents the work carried out to improve the clean-in-place (CIP) performance of a product fill valve used
extensively for the bag in box (BIB) packaging of wine. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models were developed
in an attempt to improve the CIP, remove areas of cavitation and increase the flow through the valve. Food processing
industries rely on high product throughput as well as excellent CIP ability of equipment used to package foods and
beverages.