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Dipl.-Wirtschaftsing. (FH) Markus Tuffner, LOOS INTERNATIONAL Gunzenhausen
The starting situation is Steam generation for small This investment can be made most
1. crucial 2. brewery companies and cheaply with a LOOS steam boiler. This
breweries in restaurants supplies the heat consumers designed
for high-pressure steam between 2 and 6
Size, the sequence of processes, range bar via a pressure-reducing unit. A
of products and working rhythm The main components are a steam LOOS WSM-T Water Service Module
determine the size of the boiler and the generator, an unpressurized feed water for partial deaeration and a WEM-EM
system of equipment. The primary container, a water treatment system, the Water Softening Module for softening
objective of all planning and renewal is chemical dosing device and blow-down the make-up water complete the system.
to achieve maximum efficiency, or the expansion tank.
best value for money. Setting up a new
brewery offers the best preconditions
for planning as a whole, with the wide-
ranging coordination of all heat
consuming units. If breweries are only
partly renovated, the planning is more
difficult, but here too appropriate Brewing Bottle cleaning Hot water
measures can be taken to increase the kettle for high-pressure heater
steam
efficiency of equipment.
Untreated water
The new construction option (Figure 2)
High-pressure WSM-V Water WEM Water Building a new brewery offers the best
steam boiler Service Module Softening Module
preconditions for steam generation that
Fig. 2: New construction of a steam generating concept f or medium-sized and large breweries is optimized in terms of heat economy.
with closed condensate recirculation If all the steam consumers are designed
with heating surfaces for approximately
the same steam pressure in the HP
The Water Service Module combines a All regulating, control and protective range, the condensate from all heat
feed water container, deaeration, functions are computer-aided and consumers can be forwarded to a
chemicals dosing, drainage and automatically executed with pressure common HP condensate service
expansion container, boiler feed water and temperature sensors using an SPC module. No expansion steam losses
device and water sample cooler into a with text display. occur. Softened water and chemical
multifunctional unit. In the feed water dosing volumes remain very low and are
contain, the condensate and make-up The LOOS WEM-EM Water Softening only required to cover leaks and direct
water are thermally deaerated and the Module works on the ion exchange steam consumption without condensate
feed water treated with the chemicals. principle. In the lowest price version, the backflow. This system gives the
The desalting water and the blow ready-to-connect module is supplied as a maximum savings compared with open
down water passed into the expansion volume-control individual unit. condensate systems with the same
container, expanded and cooled for consumption structure.
passing into the mains drainage For the typical restaurant brewery with
recurrent long operating breaks, this Partial renewal
system.
The steam consumer units or steam
generators of many breweries are
replaced, which allows the separate
HP 50 -70 % *!LP 30 - 50 % recirculation of low-pressure and high-
pressure condensate.
Untreated water
costs mean that higher initial
investments can be profitable even with
High-pressure WSM-V Water WEM Water
smaller systems. The modular
steam boiler Service Module Softening Module technology that has become established
Fig. 4: Concepts with partial deaeration using a low-priced expansion unit
over recent years reduces the planning,
coordination and assembly work
considerably. New constructions or
modernization are absolute child's play.
operating set-up and working rhythm consequently has avoidable costs of €
without any reduction in efficiency 19,200 to € 32,040. The investment costs
(Figure 3). for the supply and installation of a high-
pressure condensate service module will
A cheaper solution is the use of a be, depending on level of equipment,
pressure-reducer for the feed and between € 40,000 and € 65,000.
expansion of the condensate from the
high-pressure steam consumers The time taken for the return on
(Figure 4). The condition here is the investment is thus between 0.9 and 5
parallel operation of low-pressure years, depending on the system size and
consumer units to feed in the utilization.
expansion steam that occurs. The
expanded condensate is forwarded to There are other advantages from:
the feed water container of the water
service module. As soon as the · reduced consumption of chemicals
expansion steam can no longer be used for water treatment
constantly, the economic efficiency of · reduced desalting and blow-down
this system declines. volumes
The illustrations shown here are given by way of example and are not binding.
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