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Low Impact Manufacturing- Assignment

   

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Low Impact Manufacturing 1Research Paper on the Low Impact ManufacturingA Research Paper on Energy ByStudent’s NameName of the ProfessorInstitutional AffiliationCity/StateYear/Month/Day

Low Impact Manufacturing 2Executive SummaryThis report paper is about the analysis of Brewery plant by considering the energy output such as waste energy, the efficiency of the conversion of the energy, and the energy input to the industrial system. There is need of the owner of the brewing company to carry out an audit on the energy performance so as to improve the efficiency of the energy. Energy is carried out around the brewing factory in numerous forms such as steam, electricity, gas, air, compressed air, and hot water. The processes that take place during brewing process use heat fed by steam and hot water from oil fired boilers. The major technique of reducing energy consumption by the industry is to enhance technologies for electricity system operation through system upgrades, operational modification, and implementation of new technologies.

Low Impact Manufacturing 3INTRODUCTIONThis report paper is about the analysis of different detail levels of an industrial systemby considering the energy output such as waste energy, the efficiency of the conversion of theenergy, and the energy input to the industrial system. Energy within the industrial system can be transmitted within the system in numerous forms such as steam, electricity, gas, compressed air, and hot water. The flow of industrial energy can be complex like device for conversion of energy such as boiler may be utilized in the industry for the purposes of conversion of energy from chemical energy to heat energy. The waste energy from the system may be re-used through the process of exportation to heating system or converting it into electricity. The descriptions of the industry that have been discussed in this paper include the description of the industry, identification of the processes that require significant energy, the illustration of the major energy flow within the factory, as well as suitability of technologies of energy conversion[ CITATION Aga13 \l 2057 ]. Factory DescriptionFor this industrial system, the type of product that the industry is dealing with is smallbeer manufacturing industry with 150 employees. There is need by the owner of the brewing company to carry out an audit on the energy performance so as to improve the efficiency of the energy. The beer manufacturing company was constructed in the 1970s and serious modification have not been done since then. The heating system of the company, as well as the processes that use heat, are fed by hot water and steam from old oil boilers that are fired and all the machinery such as conveyor, pumps, compressors, and chillers are powered using electricity[ CITATION Ahl12 \l 2057 ]. The processes that are involved in the brewing process areas shown in the figure below:

Low Impact Manufacturing 4Figure 1: Brewing process[ CITATION Noe14 \l 2057 ]The processes that are involved in the beer brewing process include milling, mashing, lautering, boiling, whirlpooling, cooling, fermenting, maturing, filtering, and packaging. The process of mashing involves mixing milled grain followed by heating at a specific temperature to enable the enzymes in the malt to break down the grains’ starches into maltose. Boiling is done to ensure sterility which involved in the prevention of contaminationwith the microbes that are undesirable. The fermentation process starts immediately the yeast is added to the wort that is cooled[ CITATION Cas11 \l 2057 ]. The most significant energy usingprocesses within the brewing factory together with the energy they use is explained below:MashingThe process of milling takes when malt grains are conveyed from the facility of storage and then milled in a wet process to make sure that high yield can be gotten. The mixture of water, gelatinized adjunct, and malt is known as mash. The major reason for mashing process is to acquire extract of high yield from the malt grist and also to attain uniformity of the product. This process requires the hot water temperature between 71oC to 82oC which is gotten from hot water or steam from oil fired boilers. The temperature of

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