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At Alfa Laval, we know the choices we make for our business and our customers shape
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reveal something special Sustainable solutions are our core business. Solutions that are more energy efficient,
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Solutions that optimize your processes while contributing to the UN Global Goals.

In this e-book you can explore how Alfa Laval helps optimize dairy, food and beverage
processes with:
Catarina Paulson • Pumps that save up to 30% in energy costs
Vice President Sustainability, • Valves that deliver up to 90% savings in water and cleaning media
Alfa Laval
• Tank cleaning systems that use up to 70% less water and cleaning media
• Agitators that cut energy consumption by up to 80%

Introducing solutions like these to your Cleaning-in-Place processes can help your company
achieve or exceed both your business and climate ambitions while fostering responsible,
sustainable growth.

To us, sustainability is a matter of trust. Every single one of our actions is guided by our
commitment to business integrity, human rights, optimizing the use of natural resources,
and full transparency. Alfa Laval is committed to the Sustainable Development goals, to
becoming carbon neutral by 2030 and to creating circular business models.

Optimizing your processes with Alfa Laval’s sustainable technologies is good for your
business, good for the environment and good for the planet.

Join us on our quest to making our world better, every day.

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A typical beverage system

offers many opportunities for
sustainability improvements.
Alfa Laval targets improved
efficiency through pump and
agitator optimization and by
reducing water and wastewater
during the CIP process.

From soft drink production

to dairy plants, Alfa Laval
is ready to help.

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Did you know that, on average, 20% of a plant’s energy use is required
forCleaning-in-Place (CIP)? Upgrading to Alfa Laval equipment reduces
your consumption of energy, water and cleaning media.

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Customer success

“Byrne Dairy is now able

Optimizing to get a better, more consistent
return flow while using 30%
pumps delivers less energy.”
– Mike Sima, Senior Process Engineer, Byrne Dairy

up to 30% in New York-based dairy producer Byrne

Dairy discovered the superior performance
of the Alfa Laval LHK Prime. By installing
energy savings a variable frequency drive motor, the motor
speed was reduced by 70-75% of its full-
speed power, making it ideal for the process.
Studies show that 90% of all installed pumps are incorrectly sized. In addition to superior performance, Byrne
Many of these can be optimized to save up to 30% of their power achieved about 30% in energy savings
consumption. Because the purchase price of a pump is a minor using the Alfa Laval LKH Prime.
cost compared to the running costs – the payback time for required
modifications often is less than a year.

Optimizing your pump’s energy use starts with fitting a correctly

sized impeller or installing a variable speed drive (VSD). Choose a
pump that operates as closely as possible to the best efficiency point.
In our analysis, it is assumed that low-hanging fruit such as using
pumps with VSD to regulate flow rather than control valves has already Product spotlight
been implemented across the beverage industry.

Optimizing pump performance allows you to realize up to 30%

Alfa Laval LKH Prime
in energy savings. Using the combination of advanced air-screw
technology, optimized impeller and casing
geometry, the Alfa Laval LKH Prime exceeds
industry expectations for quiet, efficient
operation, reduced energy consumption
Graph: Best efficiency point > and CO2 footprint. The Alfa Laval LKH Prime
is engineered to meet the most stringent
standards and hygienic requirements.

Learn more >

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Minimize your annual Customer success

“With potential annual

Product spotlight

Alfa Laval
water consumption savings of one million
litres of water, the dairy ThinkTop V70
customer was quick to
The Alfa Laval ThinkTop V70 is the
implement the seat lift next generation of our leading sensing and
and seat push cleaning control units for hygienic valves. Designed
method with Alfa Laval for mounting on our Unique mixproof valve
Drastically reduce water usage and improve re-use of valuable resources by optimizing Unique mixproof valves range, it delivers the fastest-ever burst seat
the seat lift for double block-and-bleed mixproof valves. The improved seat lift and seat cleaning in the industry. A single ‘burst
in its raw milk reception.” seat clean’ (one fast seat lift takes place
push cleaning method involves quick and repetitive opening and closing of the seat,
– Allan Bruun, Industry Manager,
rather than exposing valve surfaces to the flow of Cleaning-in-Place (CIP) media for a Dairy, Market Unit Food, Alfa Laval
in less than a second) sufficiently cleans
given duration of time. A processing plant with hundreds of valves that requires frequent the valve of product with low-fat content.
seat lift and seat push cleaning can expect to reduce water use by up to 90% and see Alfa Laval worked with a major Its unrivalled performance can reduce
a 25% return on investment. You can also cut cleaning media costs by 90% with optimized European dairy to verify the benefits of water and wastewater consumption
valve cleaning processes. reprogramming their valve Cleaning-in-Place by up to 90%.
(CIP) program. The results confirmed
higher cleaning efficiency and 70%
savings in water consumption.

Graph: Water per seat lift at various CIP pressures > Learn more >
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Optimizing tank Tank cleaning can result in high water consumption, especially in food and
beverage processing systems where the nature of product demands frequent,
thorough tank cleaning.

cleaning boosts Switching from static spray balls to Alfa Laval rotary jet heads leads to
70% in cost savings from reduced use of water and cleaning media and

yield and up to 60% savings in time, which translates into more production time.

environmental Graph: Benefits of Alfa Laval TJ20G / TJ40G >

efficiencies
Customer success

“Retrofitting our tanks with Alfa Laval rotary jet heads

helps ensure food hygiene and safety while saving water,
time and money.”
– Process engineer at the global food and beverage manufacturer

The subsidiary of a global food and beverage manufacturer wanted to improve tank
cleaning operations. The manufacturer installed Alfa Laval rotary jet heads in eight of its
tanks at the plant to reduce the cleaning cycle times by 50% and to deliver savings in
water, energy, cleaning media and wastewater.

Product spotlight

Alfa Laval TJ Rotary Jet Head Learn more >

The Alfa Laval rotary jet head range of tank-cleaning devices
provides exceptional cleanability, better end-product quality, greater
overall output and up to 70% reduction in water and cleaning media.
Avoid contamination with a 360° repeatable cleaning pattern and
reduce water and cleaning media requirements.
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Increase energy
savings by including
next-generation agitators Product spotlight

Alfa Laval
Agitators are used for different beverage applications such as mixing beverages
containing fruit pulp, dissolving flavour additives, aspartame and other powders as Rotary Jet Mixer
well as accelerating fermentation.
The Alfa Laval Rotary Jet Mixer does
Alfa Laval Rotary Jet Mixers not only ensure fast and efficient mixing of liquids, double duty. A single unit can handle
gases and powder, but can also be used as a rotary jet cleaner which reduces liquid mixing, gas dispersion and powder
both water and wastewater when cleaning the tank. Alfa Laval agitators with dispersion applications without requiring
patented energy-saving airfoil (EnSaFoil) impellers as well as specially designed separate equipment for each process,
EnSaFerm impellers for fermentation use provide up to 400% greater efficiencies thereby delivering significant savings.
due to their unique shape. Compared to a conventional impeller, the impellers After completion of the mixing process,
deliver up to 80% in energy savings. the mixer’s jet nozzles can be used to
spray cleaning media in the tank to
effectively clean tank surfaces.

Table: Compare standard and energy efficient agitators > Learn more >

Customer success

“Alfa Laval agitators are specifically designed for extra-low

energy consumption. This enables customers to reduce
the energy cost from agitators by up to 80%.”
– Jeff Surmon, Hygienic Fluid Handling Manager, South East Asia, Alfa Laval

A Danish dairy producer achieved payback from energy savings in just over eight months
by replacing its direct-drive agitators with energy-saving agitators from Alfa Laval.
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Contact us for sustainability improvements >

How much an average

processing plant can save
Small changes can make a big difference in reducing costs and improving the
environmental footprint of your plant.

For water savings, burst cleaning of your valves and rotary jet head cleaning
will have the biggest impact, with a 25% reduction in water used for each litre of
product. The calculations are based on an average milk condensing plant.

To calculate achievable energy savings, more factors must be taken into

consideration. Pump optimization, rotary jet tank cleaning, energy-efficient
agitators and burst cleaning valves contribute to significant savings in energy
and wastewater treatment

These calculations assume that the basics for plant operations such as replacing
throttling control valves with flow control using a variable speed drive pump and Graphs: Specific energy and water consumption >
heat recovery for pasteurizers have already been implemented.
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Book an Alfa Laval

equipment audit
Depending on the nature of your company, we are able
to deploy a sustainability expert to do an equipment audit
on your processes and suggest efficiency upgrades.

Alfa Laval has developed Joules, an online sustainability

tool, to compare fluid handling equipment and verify savings
on water, energy and cleaning media.

Contact us today to get started.

Book an Equipment Audit >

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Our contribution
to the United Nations’
Sustainable
Development Goals
The United Nations has adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals
for 2030, known as the Global Goals, that world leaders have pledged
to achieve. Cross-sector collaboration between civil society, academia
This is Alfa Laval
Alfa Laval is active in the areas of Energy, Food, Water and Marine,
and the business community is key to achieving these goals.
offering its expertise, products and service to a wide range of
industries in some 100 countries. The company is committed to
Alfa Laval’s business strongly contributes to the achievement optimizing processes and creating responsible growth. We drive
of 15 of these Global Goals. progress, always going the extra mile to support customers in
achieving their business goals and sustainability targets.

Alfa Laval’s innovative technologies are dedicated to purifying,

refining and recycling material. They contribute to enhanced
Our contribution to the UN Global Goals > energy efficiency, improved heat recovery, responsible use of
natural resources, better water treatment, and reduced emissions.
Thereby not only accelerating success for our customers, but also
for people and our planet. Making the world better, every day.

It’s all about Advancing better ™.

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