Dairy cuts water use
March 1st 2008 Llandymog Creamery,
owned by Dairy Farmers of
Britain, has increased the
efficiency of its raw milk
tank cleaning operations by
35% and cut water usage
by 30% since replacing
static spray balls in six raw
milk storage silos with Alfa
Laval's Toftejorg Sani-Mega
rotary spray heads.
Brian Emmerson, chief
engineer, says the creamery
quickly reached optimum
cleaning efficiency once the
Toftejorg Sani Megas were
set up. "For a start, we
noticed that the pre-rinse
phase went from opaque to
clear running much more
quickly than before, which
indicated we were using
much smaller volumes of
water. Then, the same
happened with the caustic
phase and the intermediate
rinse, and so on. Basically,
it was a cumulative process
with a good reduction in
chemical and water at each
phase of the CIP cycle that
resulted in less energy and
water use and greater
cleaning efficiency."
Hygiene levels too have
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