Heaters raise productivity at Moy Park
23 May 2012
Craigavon, UK – Food company Moy Park has installed two additional thermal fluid heaters at its poultry products operation in Craigavon, Northern Ireland.
As part of its plans to increase processing capacity at the Craigavon site, the company has installed a new, substantial-capacity spiral oven. The Babcock Wanson TPC1000B thermal fluid heaters, each rated at 1163kW output, provide heat for the new oven.
Babcock Wanson helped in the design of the heating system with Moy Park. The system can be adapted for use with three of the existing thermal fluid heaters on the site, which currently feed existing ovens.
This coupling of the systems is planned to provide an increased level of flexibility and operational standby capacity, according to the equipment supplier.
Babcock Wanson said it had to complete the heater installation and integration into Moy Park’s production system to a tight schedule, with downtime for the start up of the new systems kept to an absolute minimum.
Moy Park now operates nine TPC1000B heaters at the site. All are in daily operation as prime equipment for high temperature process – fryer and oven – heating.
The automatic coil type, multi-pass thermal fluid heater complete is claimed to provide optimal distribution of the heat, high fluid velocity in the exchange tubes and continuous flow monitoring.
