Spray heads increase creamery efficiency
June 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 have also
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