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Efficient Energy Use in a Slaughter and Meat Processing Plant—opportunities for Process Integration by Anna Fritzson; Thore Berntsson is a Agricultural and Biological Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Efficient Energy Use in a Slaughter and Meat Processing Plant—opportunities for Process Integration about?
In this paper, process integration methods are used to investigate the potential to decrease the energy usage in the slaughtering and meat processing industry. Above ambient temperatures, heating of water with different target temperatures is a large heat demand in a plant, while at subambient temperatures the refrigeration plant needs almost all of the shaftwork used at the site. Interaction between, on one hand, energy demands above ambient temperature and, on the other, cooling needs below ambient temperature can take place with freezing compressors or heat pumps. By using process integration methods above and below ambient temperatures, potentials for saving both shaftwork and external heat demand in food plants can be identified. A case study at a modern plant illustrates that even though many energy-saving measures have been taken there is still a technical potential for saving 30% of the external heat demand and more than 10% of the shaftwork used in the plant. The economic potential for the savings is dependent on the conditions at the plant.
Who reads Efficient Energy Use in a Slaughter and Meat Processing Plant—opportunities for Process Integration?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Agricultural and Biological Sciences.
- Author
- Anna Fritzson; Thore Berntsson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0260-8774)
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)