22 BREWING & BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES BUSINESS When Pillars Brewery, craft lager producers based in Walthamstow, London, was looking for the most efficient glycol product for use in cooling the brewery’s fermentation tanks, it found the answer with ALV Plus fluid from Kilfrost. The brewery needed a less viscous product than that which is generally used in brewing in order to crash cool its beer more quickly. Doing this means not only a reduction in electricity costs but means the brewery can stay true to its values by having a smaller carbon footprint, keeping innovation and quality at the heart of what they stand for. Pillars turned to Kilfrost’s new ALV Plus fluid, not only certified as safe for incidental contact with food and drink, but a fluid that offers an premium performance over alternatives. Kilfrost ALV Plus is a low viscosity heat transfer fluid formulated with organic, approved inhibitors and viscosity modifiers. It offers a viable alternative to monoeth- ylene glycol (MEG) and monopropylene glycol (MPG) as it is certified as FDA/NSF accredited for incidental contact with food, and offers premium performance. It has been developed to reduce pressure drops across the system, as well as to reduce pumping costs and increase hydraulic efficiency. The Kilfrost ALV Plus fluid has an operational temperature range from -40°C to +40°C and outperforms MEG, MPG, Bio-PDO and ethanol-based heat transfer fluids. It also protects against corrosion and scaling, and is free from nitrates, nitrites, borates, heavy metals, and phosphates which are typical in many other standard industry products. Kilfrost is a recognised global leader in safety critical frost protection chemistry and rheology. Now it has launched a first-of-its-kind heat transfer fluid it believes is set to revolutionise processing and manufacture globally, and which for the first time provides a commercial solution to the long-standing efficiency- versus-toxicity challenge. Continued on page 24 Efficient cooling solution for Pillars News INGREDIENTS Muntons says it is the first maltster in the UK to invest in a colour sorter to help overcome contamination issues with malting barley deliveries. It has invested £600,000 in purchasing and installing a state-of-the-art colour sorter. This device is able to detect and remove contaminants from cereal deliveries and will significantly reduce wasted lorry journeys through rejections at its maltings. Colour sorters use LED lighting and special cameras to detect any foreign material (see illustration) and the data is quickly analysed by dedicated software and the rejected material is ejected and collected separately from the cereals. The colour sorting process will enable Muntons to process and clean deliveries of malting barley which would otherwise have been simply rejected. This not only reduces truck movements but means that the farmer will still be able to sell their load as premium quality malting barley instead of having to find alternative used for the contaminated material. Last year was one of the worst on record for cereals contaminated with ergot, a fungus poisonous to humans, which can grow on cereals and is difficult to remove using traditional methods, as it is often the same shape and size as the cereal grain itself. Mike Norfolk, Muntons Supply Chain General Manager, said: “In the past, farmers who had deliveries rejected because of ergot contamination would have had to take the load to be cleaned by a specialist company, which would have involved additional haulage as well as the cleaning cost itself. Now we are able to clean the load on-site for the farmer, saving them wasted haulage costs and wasted time.” This is a bold and innovative move for the malting industry, yet is one which looks set to bring benefits both now and for the future. Had Muntons had this technology in place last year, the company estimates it could have saved over 340 wasted truck movements. New colour sorter installed at Muntons www.muntons.com For more information visit: 22_Layout 1 15/08/2017 11:21 Page 1