Norit Innovates Process and Wastewater Technology Beer Breweries

Today’s brewing and beverage industries are driven by customer loyalty, cost  optimisation, and sustainability. The large number of mergers and acquisitions are changing the landscape. Regional quality standards and key performance indicators are suddenly benchmarked on a worldwide scale. More than ever, economical and/or environmental circumstances have a deep impact on investment decisions.
 
High costs for raw materials, water, energy, CO2 and logistics in certain geographical areas force breweries to change their investment philosophy and optimize their economy of scale: important brewing groups to design and construct multiple three to five million hectolitre Greenfield operations instead of enlarging existing Brownfield plants to 10 or even 15 million hectolitres.
 
Brewery of the Future
Norit’s innovative technologies such as valves, membrane technology for water utilities, CO2 systems, cold block systems and Diatomaceous Earth (DE)-free Beer Membrane Filtration are combined in the most advanced, efficient and sustainable brewery concept in the world.  
 
During the exhibition, results obtained at two Greenfield operations in Europe and China will be
presented. By introducing non-stop brewing, a continuous flow, high gravity brewing, and a maximised use of membrane filtration, significant savings are realized on raw material usage and energy consumption. The highly automated brewing and beer processing process requires minimum labor. A compact footprint with an ideal brewery layout lowers investments to an absolute minimum, still guaranteeing a high quality beer.
 
Processing
With 22 full-scale Beer Membrane Filtration plants running today, Norit is the undisputed world
market leader in DE-free filtration of beer. Norit’s High Gravity Brewing is used to increase
production. Norit Südmo is presenting its P3 sealing material for aseptic valves, which stands for
performance times three: high pressure stability, high temperature resistance, and high chemical
resistance. Norit Südmo SteriPro is a fully automated filtration unit for particle reduction and sterile filtration of bottled water and soft drinks, with automatic steaming, chilling and integrity testing.

Norit Activated Carbon developed Norit CAP SUPER-WJ to meet decolorisation requirements for
beverages and juice often combined with Norit X-Flow ultrafiltration membranes.
 
Process and Wastewater
PMore than ever re-use of wastewater is becoming a feasible and affordable solution to reduce water consumption. Norit AirliftTM MBR is a technology for treating wastewater in a clean and safe environment.  Norit’s non-breaking and non-fouling tubular membranes operate at high fluxes and require a small  footprint by keeping the membranes outside the bioreactor (side-stream). For larger capacities with a  higher solid load Norit Crossflow MBR technology is successfully applied.