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In commercial brewing — as with other food, chemical, or industrial processes — control over steam heating can have significant influence on process costs and consistent quality in the final product. But its measurement and control can also be impacted by unique circumstances of those applications. Here is how changing just one aspect of steam measurement brought economy and consistency to multiple aspects of a brewer’s overall process.
Large fabricating machines such as those found in Power, Chemical, Steel, Pulp & Paper, Food and Beverage, and other manufacturing industries have bearings that require a constant supply of clean, uncontaminated oil. Lubricant oils are used to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, which ultimately reduces the heat generated when the surfaces move. The property of reducing friction is known as lubricity.
The global consumption of soft drinks, including fruit juices, is at an all-time high with demand expected to continue to rise as new markets are developed and new products introduced. To meet this ever increasing demand, major soft drink producers are being constantly challenged to reduce waste, increase throughput, minimise raw material inventories and improve quality.
Steam being used in breweries had always been overlooked as a source of “reusable” or “capturable” energy. Typically used for steam flow measurement (usage), orifice plates and averaging Pitot tubes proved to be inaccurate, required costly, extended pipe runs and regular maintenance and replacement. In generating steam, thermal mass meters had been used but presented some of the same problems. Brewers looking to improve their efficiency needed a new method to obtain and measure a thermal mass balance around the plant for steam generation and usage.
One of the world’s leading suppliers of collagen casings for food, used by its customers in the production of a wide variety of sausages and other meat products, is investing £50m in a new manufacturing plant in Nantong, near Shanghai, China.
Faccenda Chicken, one of the UK’s largest poultry processors are discovering the benefits of using the Besta float level switches from ABLE Instruments & Controls. Product quality is the overriding concern of Faccenda and care for the quality of its farm fresh chickens starts even before the chickens are hatched.