With over 20 years experience supporting customers big and small, across Scotland, you can rely on us for your Sales, Hire and Service needs. Our team is always here to support 24/7, and ready to help you make great things happen!
Keeping operational costs low whilst maximising production capacity are key considerations for clients within the food & beverage sector. One of Scotland’s largest, independent dairy farms, invited Aqua to propose a new, energy efficient, cooling system that would support their expanding product range.
Situation
The dairy had installed a new ultrafiltration (UF) plant to facilitate in production of their protein yoghurt product. Ultrafiltration is one of four different membrane filtration processes used within the industry. There were two legacy chiller units on site, along with heat exchangers. One heat exchanger was being upgraded with a new scrape surface version. As a result of these changes, cooling capacity needed to increase to ensure -3°C glycol could be supplied to the process tanks, UF plant and heat exchangers.
Solution
Aqua designed and supplied a custom designed solution, comprising two air cooled Aqua Pro Plus packaged chiller units, and a stand-alone free cooler.
Aqua Pro Plus Chillers
Our Aqua Pro Plus chiller units incorporate high efficiency scroll compressors, giving ultimate capacity control when compared to large screw compressors. Each unit has two independent circuits, with 3 scroll compressors on each.
Whilst the chillers are efficient just by themselves, the ability to add free cooling to the system boosted potential energy savings even further.
The dairy process was able to be configured to include a separated return from the ultrafiltration plant and heat exchangers. This resulted in an average return temperature of 18°C, making free cooling a possibility.
John Lowe heads up our Sales, Hire and Service teams in Scotland. Based in Nerston, near East Kilbride, John has a passion for both his homeland and the world of temperature control!
Growing up, John spent many family holidays exploring the North of Scotland, with fond memories of Grannie’s Heilan Hame Holiday Park up at Dornoch. The unspoilt beaches of Scotland are still a firm favourite and John continues to explore the area, taking his own family more recently on trips to Arran.
Our process cooling specialists are on hand to support you from initial product selection through to delivery, installation & commissioning. Whether you’re looking for a single, supply only unit or a completely bespoke system, we’re here to help.
We have a comprehensive fleet of temperature control equipment, available for immediate hire across the UK. From process chillers and air conditioning systems to boilers and heating equipment, our technically led hire experts will keep your business operational 24/7.
Aqua’s Service team offers 24/7 after sales support, 365 days of the year. Our Engineers are specialist trained experts, based across the UK, meaning we’re never far away when you need us. Aqua are F-Gas and Safe Contractor accredited.
Our dedicated team, based out of Glasgow, are on hand to support you with all aspects of temperature control. We’ve 20+ years of experience helping customers big and small, across the UK and we’d love to work with you on your next requirement!
For more information call our Scotland team direct on 0141 212 1528 or email sales@aquacooling.co.uk
A few examples of what the team’s been up to recently, include providing an Aqua Pro chiller from our rental fleet on a 2-year hire. Our customer, an artisan butter producer based in Edinburgh will use the chiller to cool a mixing vessel.
We’ve supplied a Temperature Control Unit (TCU) to a confectionary client in Uddingston. We hold TCU and our Aqua Pro chiller units in stock, so delivery is quick, normally next day. This unit will work on a chocolate line, preventing the chocolate from solidifying during production.
Our Scotland Service engineers have been busy supporting customers with Planned Preventative Maintenance agreements across the region, working at a major Glasgow event space and with a civil engineering contractor. Our Engineers are highly experienced individuals, qualified to work on all main chiller brands, so even if your equipment wasn’t purchased from Aqua we can still look after you, 24/7, 365 days a year!
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