Black Malt Extraction Project

This was a continuous evaporation process which concentrated wort for black malt beer into a liquor for distribution to other breweries. This saved shipping costs and the liquor was diluted into a wort at each destination brewery. The existing controls were modified to accommodate the new grain with process changes throughout the brewhouse.

There was sophisticated evaporator temperature control and centrifuge control. Also included batch scheduling modifications to allow integration of the new wort production into the existing brewhouse production schedule. The new installation had to be integrated while the existing brewhouse was in production.

The PLC 5 equipment was used during the PLC programming phase at Emerson Process Management. The Factory Link GUI programming was done on NT computers at Emerson Process Management. These components were set up to communicate for simulation before shipping to the site.

Emerson Process Management specified the Process Operation before detailed programming, as well as the description of Operation documents.

Emerson Process Management also interfaced to a new Brewhouse scheduling software that was being implemented by another company in parallel.

The project was very successful with product quality exceeding specifications and the project being completed ahead of schedule.

The client was well pleased with the outcome.

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