The success story of the ECO-MATRIX piping system in the fermenting room continues.
In 2006, in the course of the expansion and modernization of Browar Dojlidy (Kompania
Piwowarska S.A., SABMiller Group) in Bialystok, Poland, Tuchenhagen Brewery Systems
GmbH equipped a complete new fermenting room with the ECO-MATRIX piping system.
Product quality and economic considerations were the decisive factors for the project requirements in all sections. The high requirements regarding system development and design, improvement of product quality and operational safety as well as reduction of product losses and lowering of investment and operating costs could be fully met with the ECO-MATRIX system.
The project included a complete new CIP plant, modification and expansion of the yeast
storage and propagation equipment, a new second wort line (600hl/h) from the brewhouse with the related officially approved measuring units, pitching, aeration and cooling as well as the process piping of the new second fermenting room (15 tanks, 4200 hl each) with the ECO-MATRIX system. To achieve optimum flexibility regarding filling of the existing and the new fermenting room, a fully automatic VARIVENT valve block was installed for optional interconnection of the wort ways.
Automation of the processes on the product side as well as on the CIP/gas side was done
fully automatically with the TBS control system OTAS 7. OTAS 7 with iFIX is based on the
Microsoft Windows XP operating system. It combines the advantages of a safe and innovative 32-bit technology with the openness of the Windows world. The existing control level in the old section was modernized with the current Siemens S7 programmable controllers. In the OTAS 7 program, operation the automatic programs in the plant can be operated and monitored. It is divided into the status overview over active programs, which allows a quick overview of the events in the plant, and the detail view for each individual program, where all relevant data and operating options for this program are available. The existing control system in the old section was also replaced by the more convenient OTAS 7.
Kompania Piwowarska was fully convinced by the solutions to the project requirements.
Thus, the brewery group is going to equip another new fermenting room at Browary Tyskie in Tychy with the ECO-MATRIX system. The success story of the ECO-MATRIX piping system will obviously continue this year.