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Pure steam for baby
milk powder
At DMK, three boilers from Viessmann provide pure steam
and process heat
Author: Sabrina Deininger, Viessmann Industrial Systems, Allendorf (Eder)
Around an hour's drive north of
Bremen, surrounded by green
meadows, lies an ultra-modern
dairy site: DMK Group's
new baby food plant. As Germany's
largest dairy cooperative, DMK Group
(Deutsches Milchkontor) processes milk into
baby milk powder at the Strückhausen site.
This ends up on the shelves of food and drug
stores around the world under the Humana
brand. The path from raw milk to baby milk
powder is not only a demanding one, but
also an energy-intensive one. Besides a lot of
process heat, hygienically pure steam is also
needed for sterile production. Both – process
heat and pure steam – come from a total of
three Viessmann steam boilers.
A pioneering project
The new production site for baby food
opened in 2019. The dairy plant in Strückhausen,
Lower Saxony, which has been in
operation since 1884, was expanded and
converted into a highly specialised plant for
infant milk powder. The DMK Group sees a
market with great growth opportunities in
the production of baby milk powder.
The overall contract for the complete
conversion was awarded to the technical
building supplier ETS Efficient Technical Solutions
GmbH, a subsidiary of the Elevion
16 tons of steam per hour is supplied by this custom-built boiler from Viessmann
for the production of baby milk powder at DMK in Strückhausen.
Group. The ETS team planned, built and
commissioned the entire energy generation
system in the plant: from heating, cooling
and process heat in the form of steam to
the clean steam generator. The infrastructure
that supplies the dairy plant with electricity,
high-pressure steam, hot and cooling
water, compressed air as well as drinking
and ice water also was designed by the internationally
active energy specialists. "For
(photo: Elevion Group | ETS)
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