Cost Effective Treatment of Dairy Processing Residues

Renewable Energy from Anaerobic Systems

For dairy processing companies under pressure to reduce costs and environmental impact, Clearfleau anaerobic plants supply on-site renewable energy – you can convert your process residues into valuable biogas. Save site costs, cut your carbon footprint and generate extra revenue by:

• Reducing your fossil fuel costs by up to 25%

• Cutting your treatment costs by at least 50%

• Free energy once plant is paid for: <5 years

Proven Technology

Clearfleau’s proven on-site anaerobic system adds value to your liquid effluents, residues, by-products (including whey or fats) and reject product. On-site anaerobic digestion (AD) technology will pay for itself in under 5 years, replacing costs with a new source of revenue.

Post digestion, wastewaters can be cleaned so thoroughly that the water can be discharged into rivers or further polished for re-use on-site. We also deliver:

• Renewable energy from your residues

• Revenue from FIT and RHI incentives

• Lower process residue disposal costs

• Smaller energy (electricity & heat) bills

• Tax savings for lower carbon emissions

• Environmentally sustainable production

Benefits for Your Site

Do you need to control costs, reduce carbon emissions and limit your environmental impact? Our on-site digestion system enhances food processing efficiency, helping reduce your disposal charges and escalating fossil fuel bills. We add value to your residues, including:

• Trade and process effluent (white water)

• Wash down residues and effluents

• Reject products and excess dairy fats

• By-products, such as whey or permeate

Our processes are designed to meet your specific needs. We are working with UK dairy processing companies to make their sites more sustainable, with an attractive return on investment. To learn how your site can benefit from reduced disposal and energy costs, contact us.

On-site AD Projects

Dorset based BV Dairy’s AD facility, operating since 2010, produces over 20% of site energy needs, from materials previously discharged to sewer or removed from site. AD is reducing costs and cutting annual CO₂ emissions by 1,200 tonnes.

At First Milk’s Aspatria creamery in Cumbria a new AD plant will deliver significant disposal/ treatment savings. Funded by independent developer, Lake District Biogas (www.lakedistrictbiogas.com), the plant feeds bio-methane (upgraded biogas) to the gas grid – the first dairy site to do so, based entirely on its own production residues.

Chris Gooderham, of First Milk commented:

Clearfleau will reduce the cost of handling the creamery’s production residues, while generating renewable energy for use on site. It produces lower greenhouse gas emissions, while reducing off-site transport of residues and making better use of the whey permeate.