Food and drink: Ducking energy costs with VSDs

摘要

A European duck meat producer wanted to save energy and reduce costs by improving the drive control of its refrigeration plants, the greatest consumers of its electrical power. Installing variable speed drives from ABB helped it accomplish this - and led to it installing drives on many other types of plant in the Lincolnshire, UK-based factory. Cherry Valley Farms is the largest producer of duck meat and duck products in the UK. It processes 45,000 ducks per day, weighing from 2 to 4 kg. Each duck is chilled, and the chilling plant is a major part of the factory's operation and accounts for a high proportion of its operating costs. Because of this, the manufacturer wanted to explore ways of reducing its energy costs.