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Electricity production from beer residue

Update: 6/11/2013

Turn the raw brewery producing electricity is an initiative to utilize waste and reduce production cost of a beer company in America .
 
Alaskan Brewing is a brewing company in the port city of Juneau , Alaska , USA . Like every other beer company , brewery process - including the rest of the beans and barley malt - always an issue important to the Alaskan Brewing . Elsewhere , most brewery became food for cattle farms .
But Alaska is a state with a low population density . As the world's only 680 farm statistics statewide . Particularly in the area of ​​southwest Alaska , the farm is only 37 . So the farm can not get all the residue of waste beer companies . Residue disposal problem became urgent in the context of the beer companies are expanding production scale .
 
Alaskan Brewing used to transport trash to other places to sell , but large transport costs by the topography of the city of Juneau particular . Despite being a city attractive to tourists , Juneau does not have any way to any one can enter or go out by car . All transport operations must be done by ship or plane . Also, due to wet grounds and the company have dried before transport to waste treatment costs increase significantly . In the meantime , the company virtually no profit in the sale of brewery .
 
Turn the raw brewery producing electricity is an initiative to utilize waste and reduce production cost of a beer company in America .
 
Alaskan Brewing is a brewing company in the port city of Juneau , Alaska , USA . Like every other beer company , brewery process - including the rest of the beans and barley malt - always an issue important to the Alaskan Brewing . Elsewhere , most brewery became food for cattle farms .
 
Waste produced during the rest of the beer is the malt and barley .
Waste produced during the rest of the beer is the malt and barley .
 
But Alaska is a state with a low population density . As the world's only 680 farm statistics statewide . Particularly in the area of ​​southwest Alaska , the farm is only 37 . So the farm can not get all the residue of waste beer companies . Residue disposal problem became urgent in the context of the beer companies are expanding production scale .
 
Alaskan Brewing used to transport trash to other places to sell , but large transport costs by the topography of the city of Juneau particular . Despite being a city attractive to tourists , Juneau does not have any way to any one can enter or go out by car . All transport operations must be done by ship or plane . Also, due to wet grounds and the company have dried before transport to waste treatment costs increase significantly . In the meantime , the company virtually no profit in the sale of brewery .
 
Brandon Smith engineers , managers and technical staff operating system produced by Alaskan Brewing beers .
Brandon Smith engineers , managers and technical staff operate
operating systems produced by Alaskan Brewing beers . ( Photo: AP )
 
So , 4 years ago , Alaskan Brewing leadership began finding solutions leverage brewery to produce electricity . This strategy not only helps them eliminate transportation costs and brewer's dried , but also reduce costs for electricity . They hired a company in the state of North Dakota , designed a special furnace to burn boiling brewer .
 
To own furnace system that was unique , the company spent $ 1.8 million . But Mr. Brandon Smith , who in charge of technical and operational process of the brewing system , confirmed that the oven boiled help companies save up to 70 % electricity cost (formerly the company's electricity costs up to $ 450,000 per year ) . Smith believes that in the future , his furnace will appear in many other breweries by its enormous benefits .
 
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