Cooler cheese
15 Mar 2011
Cheshire-based cheesemaker Joseph Heler Cheese has installed two new custom-designed cooling towers manufactured by Carter Environmental Engineers of Birmingham, UK.
The units replaced two problematic old cooling towers at the Joseph Heler creamery in Hatherton, near Nantwich, and prompted the need for a far more efficient and hygienic system at the plant.
The installation included adapting Carter’s Sandringham B cooling towers to utilise Joseph Heler’s preference for stainless steel dairy pipe fittings and stainless steel air-actuated float valves - instead of standard screwed fittings and copper ball floats. This configuration was combined with ABB electronic controls.
Carter’s custom-built Sandringham cooling tower is a forced-draught, counter-flow design covering water flow rates from 6-600m3/hr.
Incorporating a direct drive, axial fan-set located on the side of the tower at low level, the Sandringham unit is said to offer ultra-high efficiency, interlocking drift eliminators and a multi-sloping base tank with bottom located drain.
The design also features a removable, pack access door and a non-aerosol-forming, self-draining, trough-and-weir water distribution system.
