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Project Review of Pearl River Brewery (Meizhou)

2013.07

Brief Introduction

Pearl River Brewery (Meizhou) is located in High–Tech

Industry Park，Shejiang, Meizhou City, Guangdong province. It is a

project of strategic shift, whole plant relocation and long distance

transformation. Utilization of old equipment reaches more than

eighty percent. After upgrading, process optimizing, re-layout,

construction and transformation, the performance of the original old

equipment fully meet the high standard requirements of a complete

new plant. Ningbo Lehui began to dismantle the Guangzhou factory

in February 2012, then transported the equipment to Meizhou for

installation, and put it into standard production at the end of June

2013. Lehui delivered the whole factory including raw materials

handling system, Brewhouse, yeast plant, fermentation farm,

filtration plant, BBTs, and packaging line. This project created a new

mode of combining old and new equipment and pioneered the

precedent of efficiently relocating whole brewery.

Raw Materials Handling

Raw materials handling system added new malt silos and rice

silos, and eliminated the old square plate silos with frame

structure, which completely solved the problem that the raw

materials easily become mildewed. In-taking and out-taking of

warehouse system are transformed and designed by Lehui in

integration, guarantees high-efficient run in dust-free condition.

The whole process is environmentally friendly, high efficient,

time saving, and labor saving. The storage conditions of the

brewery has been improved greatly and logistics costs have been

saved also.

Raw Materials Handling

The whole raw materials system uses new steel structure platform, which

reduces costs and saves space, ventilates the air and improves the operating

environment. Reasonable layout ensures the fully utilization of equipment. We

also modified the manual dedusting system and weighing equipment, and

added the hammer mill. A comprehensive automation reform has been carried

on for the whole system, consequently, the equipment performance has been

improved twice in overall and fully meets the needs of automated production.

The modified raw materials system passed the safety license of National Security

Department only at once.

Brewhouse

The brewhouse utilizes equipment from phase 2nd brewhouse of main plant by long

distance demolition and installation. Most of the system adopts old equipment under

comprehensive reform. We beautified the appearance and re-polished the internal of

equipment after the demolition to satisfy the production condition for non-pasteurized

beer, we made the overall equipment looks brand-new after relocation and reached the

construction standard of new brewery.

Brewhouse

Lehui conducted maintenance and renovation on the control

system and hardware of this mash filter which is the main

equipment of the brewhouse, the capacity reaches 12

batches per day continuously production.

Brewhouse

The equipment changed the previous manual operation after

demolition and reconstruction. Lehui customized the entire control

system according to the conditions of equipment to realize the

automated production. The whole control system is running

smoothly and achieves high customer satisfaction.

Fermentation

The fermentation system consists of more than 30 tanks, including

fermentation tanks, bright beer tanks and de-aeration water tank. All of

them are old tanks dismantled from old plant. The whole demolition,

one-piece transportation, and integral installation retain the function of

original equipment. We also conduct comprehensive cleaning and

insulation works, strengthen and reinforce the structure of tank part. The

equipment fully meets the production requirement after installation.

Fermentation

The new installed fermentation piping

system adopts latest operation mode after

re-arrangement, which is simple to use and

no dead angle, meeting aseptic production

conditions.

Transform the old tanks and renew the

system configuration: We use single vessel

or dual vessels to make a complete new CIP

system for fermentation process. All units

including fermentation, clarification and

filtration can clean separately or clean each

other. Button start realizes time saving and

labor saving.

Fermentation

The whole filtration system is configured according to the standard of non pasteurized

beer process. All units including centrifuge, chilling, filtering, PVPP and deaeration water

preparation system etc are moved from Guangzhou head plant and installed. By effective

process combination, we have realized the combination of automatic and manual control.

As a result, the final beer has won acclaim during the beer competition of Pearl River

Breweries.

Yeast propagation and storage system is all reformed from old vessels with new configuration.

We optimized the top device and the whole control system to realize full automatic yeast

propagation and storage system, and finally ensure mass production operation.

Packaging Line

The whole canning line is provided by Lehui as a

turn-key project with capacity of 42000 CPH, its flow

meter type of electronic filling valves fully comply

with non pasteurized beer filling conditions.

Packaging Line

Packaging Line

Automatic depalletiser, empty cans conveyor and aseptic can rinser.

The can filler adopts electronic filling valves with high precise electromagnetic flow

measurement and isobaric filling technology. The filling valve can steam sterilize the empty

cans and has carbon dioxide air displacement function. The oxygen pick-up during the filling

is very low. Beer is filled and sealed after aseptic membrane filtration to keep its fresh.

Packaging Line

Bottle warmer & sterilizer with double layer tunnel design, has

two functions of bottle warming and sterilization.

Dry packaging area adopts a variety of packing form includes

shrink film pack, half tray pack and case pack.