Amul Dairy's first successful Vapour Absorption Machine

Anand, June 4 (UNI) With Amul products now being exported to 40-odd countries, the products' prices have to be competitive across the global market. Hence, Amul is optimising cost of production deploying state of the art technology to conserve energy.

''In this direction Amul is spearheading, incidentally, the Vapour Absorption Machine (VAM), installed for variable load pattern in Amul Dairy, is the first major successful waste heat-run cooling technology in the dairy sector in India,'' said General Manager (Dairy Plant) V K Ghoda.

''Unlike conventional power-run refrigerated chillders, the vapour absorption chillers in VAM are recovering waste heat from fuel gases of Gas Engine at the dairy plant. In the process, the VAM is generating 4000 T Refrigeration everyday. The refrigeration is used as a cooling agent to produce 3.5 C chilled water for processing of milk,'' said Mr Ghoda.

''With an increased focus on conservation of energy and environment across the world, the vapour absorption cooling technology emerges as an economic and eco-friendly solution to ever-increasing power cost, declining power availability and last but not the least, increasing emission of pollutants. We owe out success to Ms Thermax for their untiring efforts to make the project a success,'' he said.

''To deploy the state of the art technology at the service of milk producers of Amul is our objective. Ultimately, such technology helps us to provide remunerative return to the under privileged rural masses of our institution,'' he added.

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