This involves the use of the Baumer Flex-Flow sensor, which can measure the temperature of the medium as well as the flow rate. The cost reduction this could achieve in the future quickly made this a worthwhile investment, Arla said.
At its Falkenberg location, Arla Foods produces 20,000 tonnes of cottage cheese each year. Arla Foods satisfies almost the entire cottage cheese demand of the Swedish market and also exports to Finland, Denmark and Greece.
Mattias Abrahamsson, production system manager at Arla Falkenberg, said, “In recent years, we have placed an increasingly strong focus on monitoring the energy consumption of our plants. In certain areas, however, we simply didn´t know where exactly the energy was being used.”
Arla installed the FlexFlow calorimetric flow sensors from Swiss sensor company Baumer at the neuralgic points in the cooling and heating system and used the measurement results to obtain, for the first time, a clear image of the energy consumption.
Because of its commitment to sustainability, Arla said it had already made efforts to reduce energy balance when the plant was designed. It uses the low external temperatures of the Swedish climate to achieve a cooling temperature of 0.5 degrees Celsius for the cooling circuit, which cools the produced cheese from 60 to 30 degrees Celsius.
Yet energy losses that Arla had been unable to localize for some time occurred here as well.
“The potentials of the FlexFlow sensor caught our attention as soon as we heard about them. This sounded exactly like what we had been looking for,” Abrahamsson said.
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