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The combine’s production pattern is manly presented by skim milk powder, with its share of 43.3% of the total production. Therefore, a great attention is paid to skim milk powder manufacture update, technical reequipment, cost optimization, energy saving, drying process automation.

With this purpose two heat generators were mounted near the skim milk powder workshop. The generators are fueled by natural gas; they provide the drying units with heat energy in the form of high-temperature organic oil. This gave an opportunity to stabilise the temperature of drying air and increase operating temperature range from 165°C to 270°C above zero, minimize heat losses, reduce specific gas flow rate per tonnes of products, avoid purchased steam use.

An important moment in skim milk powder production development at the enterprise is the update of the two sprayer type drying units. The period of 2006-2007 saw implementation of works to switch to a two-stage milk drying, replacement of filters by two stage ones, which conform to the EU7 air purification grade applied in food industry of the EU countries,replacement of filters used in collection and filling bunkers, a complete replacement of pneumatic transport, mixing feeder turnstiles placed under main cyclones, replacement of skim milk powder filling lines and complete replacement of electric equipment for computer aided automated drying process. The implementation of the above arrangements helped improve the product quality, its solubility, bacterial indicators; increase production capacity, reduce losses of products exhausted with outgoing air. We became able to carry out monitoring, operational analysis for a specified period and quick control.

Provision of the production with cooling facilities is one of the principal tasks to store and process milk and milk ingredients as well as storage of finished products. 2006 saw the enterprise conduct work at the reconstruction of refrigeration supplies with a partial replacement of ammonia refrigerating plants by single-packaged refrigerating systems operated on freon gas. Three centrals were mounted near the storage chambers for end products of butter (capacity of 200 tonnes each), whole-milk products and also near three new cooling facilities at the curd section. Solving the problem of end product storage we repaired the chambers themselves by conducting the complete replacement of heat-insulation and doorways, carrying out floor repair.

Direct cooling and storage of end products processes are entirely automated. Temperature monitoring, operation control and, if necessary, remote control is implemented by a compressor section operator. Available is the data archiving for implementation of a proper equipment operational analysis.