A bourbon producer opened its first carbon neutral distillery in Lebanon, Kentucky. The 72,000 square-foot facility has begun distilling Bourbon using electrode boilers that are powered by 100% renewable electricity throughout the cooking, distillation, and dry house processes. Dedert’s partnering efforts with the beverage leader are contributing to its longstanding commitment to sustainability. For this project, Dedert supplied a mechanical vapor recompression (MVR) evaporator with a finisher. In this case, the finisher was forced circulation with steam. More recently, distilleries have been focusing on replacing old steam-driven evaporators with newer technologies such as the MVR evaporator. The MVR evaporator is powered by a fan and is electricity-driven, thus making it the most energy-efficient technology.
Dedert’s MVR evaporators are electricity driven. Relying on renewable energy sources like wind and solar was necessary for the beverage leader to achieve their goal of a carbon neutral distillery, and for continued efforts to create a low carbon future. The beverage leader relies on Dedert’s advanced designs to achieve energy optimization and efficiency. Dedert extends the time between boil outs which minimizes the amount of chemicals and allows them to run longer between cleanings. Additionally, the byproduct of the distillation process mentioned above is high in protein and can be reused and sold as animal feed, making the process very sustainable.
The first Bourbon plant that Dedert was involved with was in Shelbyville, Kentucky. The second project that Dedert helped with is the carbon neutral distillery that was built in Lebanon, Kentucky in 2021. Both plants used the same MVR evaporator design, but the carbon neutral distillery required a bigger scale. Since then, Dedert has supplied another evaporator in ValleyField, Quebec. This was an already existing plant, but Dedert replaced old inefficient evaporators with a new MVR evaporator. Throughout the three different plants, the evaporator concept was the same but the sizes or configurations of each were different.
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Dedert Corporation is a global process technology company specializing in custom-design drying and evaporation systems. Dedert has been at the forefront of process innovations in drying and evaporation since 1968, successfully integrating a complete range of advanced liquid and powder processing solutions. Across our Chicago, Montreal, London, Copenhagen and Shanghai offices, Dedert's innovative team creates flexible, energy-efficient designs that can be developed for a wide range of applications. Visit our website to learn more: www.dedert.com.
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