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no whey! dairy factory in mossel bay goes drought-friendly by extracting water from milk

by:Yufengling     2020-07-05
Nestlé dairy plant, located in Garden Road Town, moselbay, has found a way to reduce dependence on municipal water by extracting moisture from milk.
By using an evaporation process at a new wastewater treatment plant on site, about 47 cans of water will now be recovered from milk every week.
Water is reused for various purposes in the facility.
The factory puts about 400 liters of fresh milk every day to produce milk powder, condensed milk and other dairy products.
Milk contains an average of 88% of water.
Waste treatment plants follow Nestlé\'s factories in Mexico, India and China, which have fully implemented the \"zero water\" technology.
With the severe drought in West Cape and the rest of the country, the Minister of Water and Health, Gugile Nkwinti, mentioned that he wanted to turn the factory into a \"big story\" with President Cyril ramafusa \".
An apparently impressive Nkwinti unveiled the plant on Tuesday.
Read: News 24 reader\'s water crisis ideas and tips \"The first thing I want to say to him when I meet him in Pretoria next week is, please check out what is being done there in the Bay of Mosell, \"he said at the launch site.
\"He is looking for these stories because we have always wanted to make South Africa better.
\"He said the organization actively responded to the drought and took positive measures instead of negative responses.
The Gulf of Mosell and its surrounding areas suffered severe drought between 2008 and 2010, after which the area was declared a disaster area.
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Since 2009, water restrictions have decreased by 65%, which has become the norm for residents of Cape Town and some Western Cape town, and must be implemented.
As a result, Nestlé has started a project dedicated to environmental sustainability and responsible water use.
In 2009, it studied ways to reduce water consumption.
In 2010, the next stage is to find a way to reuse water, followed by the last stage of recycling water.
Since 2009, the amount of water used in the project has decreased by 65%.
According to Nestlé, the site will continue to use municipal water as a fire protection system and backup facilityWater supply.
The factory opened in 1958 is open 24 hours a day.
Nestle el Bay Nestlé factory model, new waste water treatment plant. (
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Nkwinti visited the locally manufactured and installed wastewater treatment plant, which is several meters away from the main plant and is under the responsibility of local employee Fred Huysen.
The whole process is not done by hand, but is operated in the control room with a bird\'s eye view of the shiny machine.
Huysen explained that milk is stored in a large tank under the factory and then moved to a fully enclosed large blue tank at the right temperature, called a biogas digester for two days
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Conscious restaurant owners and chefThe 100 l cans contain good bacteria.
\"Milk contains milk solids and fat,\" Huysen said . \".
\"The bacteria we use to break down fat like milk solids and proteins.
\"Bacteria pass-
Products of gas and waste.
Water and Health Minister Gugile Nkwinti unveiled a waste water treatment plant that extracts water from milk. (
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In the spirit of reuse and recycling, methane gas is pumped out to make steam and power the boiler.
These wastes are reused on farmland as fertilizers.
After \"digesting\", filter the wastewater and remove the Brown and slight odor.
Plants use Micro
Filter for removing particles and reverse osmosis for removing dissolved solids.
The mineral must then be put back in 100% of pure water before it can be re-createdused.
An example of how wastewater is used (left)
And what it looks like after (right). (
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\"So nothing is going to be wasted, and there\'s nothing that the municipal authorities will do as wastewater in the wastewater treatment plant,\" Huysen said proudly . \".
The mayor of mozel Bay, Harry levindal, welcomed enkewendy to the area and thanked his department for providing the funds to build the desalination plant a few years ago.
He noted that Nestlé received milk from rural communities and negotiations were in progress, so the company could do its part for corporate social investment in these areas.
Nkwinti said it is very important to get more young people from villages and towns to work and participate in this technological space because \"this is their time \".
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