food Marketing - Technology 4/2023
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<strong>Marketing</strong><br />
for Krones came quickly and easily,”<br />
explains the project manager. “It was<br />
especially important to us to get all the<br />
kit from a single source, quite simply<br />
because we lacked the experience to<br />
handle such a project.” The first items<br />
of equipment had arrived on site in June<br />
2022, and the dairy was put in operation<br />
just under a year later, in May <strong>2023</strong>,<br />
following successful acceptance-testing.<br />
The official inauguration ceremony took<br />
place in the presence of the Mauritanian<br />
Prime Minister and the German<br />
ambassador.<br />
The new dairy in detail<br />
• The recombination system is the<br />
core of the new dairy. It consists of<br />
a powder dissolver for the imported<br />
milk powder with an output of five<br />
tons per hour and a butter-melting<br />
unit for fat standardization.<br />
• The milk is then processed at ultrahigh<br />
temperature in the VarioAsept<br />
M. That is an indirect product-UHT<br />
system featuring a shell-and-tube<br />
heat exchanger, in which the product<br />
flows through the inner tube and is<br />
heated up by hot water in the outer<br />
tube. The UHT system guarantees the<br />
requisite flexibility for working with<br />
different temperature/time programs.<br />
It also handles protein stabilization.<br />
To this end, whey protein is denatured<br />
at 92-95°C for 300 seconds. That<br />
results in a longer continuous running<br />
time of the UHT system, which was<br />
engineered to suit this specific aspect.<br />
Two aseptic buffer tanks holding 25,000 and 20,000 liters respectively were also installed.<br />
• The dairy products are processed<br />
in a homogenizer with an electrical<br />
power of 90 kilowatt. This two-stage<br />
homogenizer achieves pressures of<br />
up to 250 bar and is able to process<br />
the products either in the standard<br />
way or aseptically.<br />
• Krones’ subsidiary Evoguard supplied<br />
all of the valves and pumps: aseptic,<br />
double-seat and disk valves (butterfly<br />
valves), and centrifugal pumps.<br />
Utilities supplied and installed<br />
Needless to say, Krones’ scope of supply<br />
for the turnkey dairy also included<br />
the utilities, such as steam boilers,<br />
refrigeration system, compressor and<br />
A shell-and-tube heat exchanger serves to turn a VarioAsept M into an indirect product-UHT system<br />
a Hydronomic water treatment system<br />
rated at 35 m 3 per hour. The latter<br />
processes municipal water that has<br />
already been treated.<br />
A Scada system handles system control<br />
and also collects and records operational<br />
data, thus enabling batch tracking. That<br />
means the entire process-technology<br />
kit can be run fully automatically by only<br />
two or three operators.<br />
The new dairy already runs in multi-shift<br />
operation. Krones designed it so as to<br />
ensure it can be expanded to achieve<br />
double the output at need. According<br />
to estimates, annual demand for milk in<br />
Mauritania comes to roughly 200,000<br />
tons. Operating at capacity, the new<br />
dairy can produce about 40,000 to<br />
50,000 tons per year, that is around<br />
one quarter of the country’s demand.<br />
“As soon as we’ve reached this, we<br />
will expand the system,” emphasises<br />
Cheikh Ahmed Mohamed El Moustapha.<br />
“Enazaha has hit the bull’s eye”<br />
The project manager is very satisfied<br />
overall with how the new greenfield dairy<br />
was planned and implemented: “The<br />
project proceeded very smoothly. Our<br />
employees feel right at home with their<br />
new line, which has been up and running<br />
for several months now. There haven’t<br />
been any problems so far. What’s more,<br />
we can always directly contact Krones in<br />
an emergency. Mauritania and Enazaha<br />
have hit the bull’s eye here.”<br />
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