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Benchmarking and Energy management Schemes in SMEs

 

Measure List Breweries

 

Process-related Improvement Opportunities

 

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Energy Efficiency Measure

Stage of productivity/ Short description

  1. Use of compression filter

Mashing: Replacement of existing plate filter with a compression one.
  1. Usage of vapour condenser

 

Boiling/ Cooling: Energy efficiency method to recover the heat losses.

  1. Energy efficient boiler plant

 

Boiling/ Cooling: New technology of boilers aiming at meeting current and future needs.
  1. Improvement of boiler efficiency

Boiling/ Cooling: A list of measures to improve the efficiency of existing boilers.
  1. Blow down economizer/preheating of the feed water

Boiling/ Cooling:  New technology to reclaim heat from excess boiler water.
  1. Steam recovery in the boiling phase

Boiling/ Cooling: Re-usage of steam of low grade.
  1. Steam taps

Boiling/Cooling: Method to remove the condensed steam.
  1. Deaerator

 

Boiling/ Cooling: Energy saving method improving the efficiency of the system.
  1. Boiler efficiency tracking program

 

Boiling/ Cooling: With the application of the Boiler Efficiency Tracking program, breweries check boiler efficiency quarterly, using standardized measurement methods.

  1. Thermal/ Mechanical  vapor recompression

Boiling/ Cooling: Vapour recompression is an established technology for reducing energy costs in evaporation. It is divided in two main technologies.

  1. Merlin system

Boiling/ Cooling: A mechanical system limiting the required evaporation.
  1. Brewing at high specific gravity

Boiling/ Cooling: An amount of energy saving methods is accomplished.
  1. CO2 recovery system

Fermentation: A well-designed plant is installed to recover CO2 from fermentation
  1. Filtration for the pasteurization process

 

Sterilization/ Pasteurization: Usage of filtration systems for the pasteurization process.
  1. Dealcoholization process

 

Sterilization/ Pasteurization: Energy efficiency method as the non-alcoholic beer is becoming more and more popular.
  1. Heat recovery in the pasteurization procedure

Sterilization/ Pasteurization: Usage of heat pumps and heat exchangers to recover heat.
  1. Flash pasteurization

 

 

Sterilization/ Pasteurization: Flash pasteurization requires less space, steam, electricity and coolant
  1. Heat recovery in the bottle washing procedure

 

 

Packaging: The water is passed through a heat exchanger, where heat is captured to pre-heat incoming wash water with the estimation that the heat exchanger reduces steam consumption.
  1. Cleaning efficiency improvements

 

 

Packaging: A new cleaning and label removal process that incorporates several caustic bath cycles and heat recovery with using fewer chemicals.
  1. Recycling of bottles

Packaging: Effective measure in reducing the total amount of glass and other packaging materials used by consumers.
  1. Saving energy with Cogeneration

Process in general: For industries such as breweries that have process heat/steam or cooling and electricity requirements, the use of combined heat and power systems can be an important energy efficiency measure as well as a measure for reducing the environmental pollution.

  1. Water reuse

 

 

Process in general: Like heat recovery and reuse, water conservation and reuse approaches seek to best match
  1. Ultrasonic separation

 

Process in general: Modern Technology in the process stage.

 

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