TY - JOUR
T1 - An examination of water quality entering Irish dairy processors
AU - O'Connor, E.
AU - Ryan, A.
AU - Cronin, P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Agriculture plays an important role in the Irish economy. It provides food and employment and has strong linkages with the agri-food and other sectors. The abolition of EU milk quotas in April 2015 provided a platform for agriculture to grow significantly and thus scope to improve existing processing practices emerged. The nature of the dairy industry makes it extremely water intensive, this research indicates on average 2.44 m3 of water are required to process 1 m3 of milk. The long term sustainability issues surrounding water supply require make it imperative that alternative sources are investigated. However, for these alternative sources to be acceptable the current cleanliness of water entering the process must be analysed closely, to provide a datum level of acceptable cleanliness. This study reviews the current Potable Water Standards in detail and investigates the level of compliance being achieved by 6 internationally trading dairy co-operatives within the Republic of Ireland. Results from this detailed study illustrate that current cleanliness levels far surpass the EU standards recommendations thus providing a tangible target for waste water recovery systems with the objective of satisfying customer concerns regarding reusing process water.
AB - Agriculture plays an important role in the Irish economy. It provides food and employment and has strong linkages with the agri-food and other sectors. The abolition of EU milk quotas in April 2015 provided a platform for agriculture to grow significantly and thus scope to improve existing processing practices emerged. The nature of the dairy industry makes it extremely water intensive, this research indicates on average 2.44 m3 of water are required to process 1 m3 of milk. The long term sustainability issues surrounding water supply require make it imperative that alternative sources are investigated. However, for these alternative sources to be acceptable the current cleanliness of water entering the process must be analysed closely, to provide a datum level of acceptable cleanliness. This study reviews the current Potable Water Standards in detail and investigates the level of compliance being achieved by 6 internationally trading dairy co-operatives within the Republic of Ireland. Results from this detailed study illustrate that current cleanliness levels far surpass the EU standards recommendations thus providing a tangible target for waste water recovery systems with the objective of satisfying customer concerns regarding reusing process water.
KW - Cleanliness
KW - Dairy Processing
KW - Water Quality
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U2 - 10.1016/j.promfg.2020.01.186
DO - 10.1016/j.promfg.2020.01.186
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85083534339
SN - 2351-9789
VL - 38
SP - 1008
EP - 1016
JO - Procedia Manufacturing
JF - Procedia Manufacturing
T2 - 29th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, FAIM 2019
Y2 - 24 June 2019 through 28 June 2019
ER -
