Next Generation Clean-In-Place
| The vision: | Find a place for reduced-temperature cleaning. |
More than half of a milk processing facility’s fuel is used to clean the lines and equipment. Emerging clean-in-place (CIP) technologies that allow for reduced temperature cleaning, such as catalyzed alkaline peroxide solutions, can reduce fuel demands and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by an estimated 15%. These new systems are relatively easy to install, require no changes to the monitoring and verification system, use less rinse water and produce a less alkaline effluent.
Not only would these systems help reduce our carbon footprint, but the cost savings would be significant; an average plant processing 25 million gallons of milk annually and using 27,500 MMBTUs annually would see a reduction of 4,125 MMBTUs and a fuel cost savings of nearly $40,000 a year, based on national average natural gas prices as calculated in 2008.
| The bottom line: |
$12 million in estimated energy savings annually industry-wide assuming 75% adoption. 3% reduction in carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions. |
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