FOOD & Drink PrOCEssing 33
Bottling plant cuts compressed air
generation costs and emissions
An energy efficiency
improvement programme
at a bottling plant has
resulted in substantial
energy savings and a
positive impact on carbon
emissions.
Dans une usine
d’embouteillage, un
programme
d’amélioration de
l’efficacité énergétique a
permis de réaliser des
économies d’énergie
considérables, avec un
impact positif sur les
rejets de carbone.
Ein Programm
zur Erhöhung der
Energieeffizienz bei
einem Flaschenabfüll-
unternehmen hat
zu wesentlichen
ith great brands like Pepsi, Fig. 1. PET bottling plants tend to work on
Energieeinsparungen
Robinsons, Tango and of course far higher pressures than normal automated
sowie einem positiven
the Britvic brand, Britvic Soft production lines, typically 40bar as opposed to
Einfluss auf die CO
W
2
-
Drinks is one of the two leading ~7bar, requiring more power and often providing
Emissionen geführt. soft drinks businesses in Great Britain. Dedicated a greater opportunity for energy saving.
to creating and building brands that delight
consumers, always, the company also has a site. The recommendations resulted in a new
strong track record in innovation. Successful new EnergAir control system for each existing piston
products developments, such as J2O and Fruit compressor, the integration of a new compressor
Shoot, have helped Britvic become the largest and the installation of an overall management,
supplier of branded still soft drinks, the faster control and PC visualisation package from
growing category in the soft drinks market, while EnergAir that provides integrated live control
remaining the number two supplier of branded and reporting functions for the entire system,
carbonates. including the cooling, air preparation and
In 2006, Britvic sold 1.4 billion litres of soft building ventilation systems.
drinks in hundreds of different flavours, shapes Kevin Cunningham, on the Britvic site
and sizes and delivers to over 4000 customers management team comments: “Minimising
and about 200 000 points of distribution; the environmental impact of our operations
A recently completed energy efficiency is important to Britvic and reducing Energy
improvement programme at the Britvic Beckton Consumption is a key aspect of that policy.
bottling plant has resulted in substantial energy We were aware that a large part of our
savings and a positive impact on the company’s energy expenditure is in compressed air and
carbon emissions allocation. commissioned energy auditors Air Compression
The programme employed auditors, Air Technology (ACT) to benchmark and audit the
Compression Technology Ltd to review and high-pressure compressed air system during
make recommendations on improvements to October 2004. ACT collated all the operational
the high-pressure air generation system on data, analysed it and then met with us to discuss
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