Julia LesererBetween one and three litres per litre of beer or soft drinks, two litres per kilo of PET – during a production operation, very substantial quantities of wastewater are created. For precisely this reason, not only beverage and liquid-food producers, but also recyclers are continually seeking solutions for downsizing this wastewater incidence.
Since Krones over the course of time has already optimised its individual machines for enhanced efficacy, the complete-system vendor has now expanded the horizons of its corporate capabilities to factory level: HydroCircle has been developed, a holistically conceived concept for converting wastewater from the production operation into new process water. This covers all the process steps involved that give rise to wastewater in production.
From effluent to process water
The HydroCircle closed-circuit concept enables the water consumption in the production operation to be substantially reduced: up to 80 per cent less water is now required – which of course has a perceptible effect on both the company’s water costs and its energy utilisation as well as environmental performance balance. The system can not only be installed in new factories, it can also be retrofitted in existing plants.