Hocheifel Pronsfeld Dairy

Each year, the Germany-based Milch-Union Hocheifel eG, a dairy syndicate, processes some 830 million litres of milk into long-life dairy products like long-life milk, condensed milk and cream. To cope with the increasing volumes, the cooperative has extended its dairy facilities in recent years. Axima Refrigeration was commissioned to modernise the refrigeration facility.

Requirements

Additional plants were to be added to the existing central refrigeration facility, to deliver reliable and environmentally friendly refrigeration to the production plants.

Solution

Axima Refrigeration enlarged the refrigeration facility by adding another, ammonia-run iced water tank including pre-cooling. The expansion increased the ice chiller's capacity to over twelve megawatts per hour. The iced water returned from production is cooled to 2 °C using the new iced water pre-cooling facility. The pre-cooled iced water then flows into the ice chiller, where it is cooled to 1 °C. The iced-water pumps then pump it back to the various cold consumers in production. The iced-water pre-cooling facility has the same refrigeration capacity as the central (ammonia) refrigeration unit, i.e. nearly two megawatts.