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The Great Northern Distillery in Ireland upgrades its cooling systems with ICS Cool Energy


system is tuned to our requirements and would also allow us to increase production. ICS Cool Energy proved to be experts for the job.” The distillery’s cooling system consisted of a cooling tower and an underground tank. The distillery was originally founded on the site of the former Great Northern Brewery in Dundalk, and the site inspection revealed that the fermenters had been bespoke built, with no design data available. The fact that the incoming water temperature is dependent on the ambient temperature, and that there was little operational data available, caused an additional challenge to estimate the cooling demand. Following the on-site inspection and calculations for the system’s requirements, ICS Cool Energy installed a hire Chiller 375 with pump and tank, connecting it to an incumbent heat exchanger installed in the common flow from the cooling tower to the fermenters. The hire installation gave the Great Northern Distillery the chance to diagnose and adapt the system to their requirements.


Great Northern Distillery in Dundalk, Co. Louth in Ireland has chosen ICS Cool Energy to supply its cooling systems. The project involved a tailored approach with temporary cooling installations proceeding the permanent, high-efficiency and low global warming potential (GWP) system.


“Producing high-quality single-malt whiskey requires precise temperature control throughout the entire process. The quality of our products and sustainability of our operations is very important to us,” said Brian Watts, distillery manager at the Great Northern Distillery. “We were looking for a partner that could help us modernise the existing cooling of our distillery fermenters. We wanted to make sure the new


“Throughout the following months, we made several modifications to the pumps, on both the chilled water and product sides of the fermenters, adjusting the chilled water setpoint until we finally achieved the required result,” said Anthony Duff, maintenance manager at the Great Northern Distillery. “The temporary, hire system from ICS Cool Energy gave us the flexibility to keep our production running, while monitoring and adjusting all the system’s parameters to determine the most efficient option for a permanent solution.”


Following the hire period, the Great Northern Distillery decided to install a permanent Imperium air-cooled chiller designed specifically for process applications. The Imperium chiller delivers high performance and reliability thanks to its inverter screw compressor technology and works with low GWP R1234ze refrigerant for reduced environmental footprint.


NCC research proves that recycled composites can be used in various new industry applications


for mechanical performance, before being used to manufacture a wheelchair ramp for the rail sector.


Demonstrators like these aim to show the cross-sector application possibilities in many other products in sectors including construction, rail, automotive and more.


The railways can benefit from end-of- life, recycled composites


Ground-breaking research conducted by the National Composites Centre (NCC) has shown that composites can be recycled at their end of life for use in new industry applications, providing solutions for the challenge of composite waste and reducing the environmental impact of advanced materials.


The innovative project is in collaboration with industry-leading organisations, including Network Rail, Airbus, Shell and Gen 2 Carbon as part of the NCC’s Core Research Programme.


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The project’s results are likely to increase industry confidence in the use of the non-virgin materials in second-life applications. The project has already successfully extracted carbon fibre using a pyrolysis process from two Airbus A320 vertical tail planes that had reached the end of their service lives. The reclaimed fibres will now be processed and configured into fabric that can be used with liquid resin composite manufacturing processes. The new material combination will be assessed and characterised


“The diverse consortia involved in this project highlights the near-term challenges being faced across a number of industries and the importance of our work to find sustainable solutions for end-of-life composites. This initiative is successfully developing the technologies required to overcome these challenges, paving the way for a new supply chain of recycled composites, allowing more industries to make use of their unique, beneficial properties at a lower cost,” said Dr Enrique Garcia, NCC Chief Technology Officer.


The Core Research programme is a cross- sector initiative involving the NCC’s Member organisations that identifies the biggest challenges currently being faced by industry and solves them through collaborative research and development. In partnership with the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), the NCC also leads the Sustainable Composites initiative. Through this programme, the NCC works with companies of all sizes to create a more sustainable future utilising the benefits of composite materials and applications.


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