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Stillage Screens and Modular Boiler Installation

Hgostling — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:51:20 +0000

C&I performed a front-end study and detail design for this project. The project required installation of a new water treatment and new boiler building in an operational distillery. Integration of systems must occur during a planned summer distillery outage and coincide with a major plant expansion.

The stillage from the stills is separated in new screeners and the thick stillage is pumped a considerable distance across a road and railroad track to an Anerobic Digestion facility, designed by others. After processing, the C&I team piped the RNG back to the distillery and blended it with an existing natural gas feed to power the new modular boilers. The team has navigated the challenges of working with multiple vendors, permitting entities, and engineering firms to coordinate the design and installation of this project.

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Distillery Tank Farm and Processing Unit Design

Hgostling — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:42:32 +0000

The objective of this project was to design high-yield processing units and a tank farm for whiskey production, capable of handling variable batch volumes ranging from single barrel products to large-scale distilled spirits. The scope included designing flexible systems that allow for the efficient transfer of liquids between the tank farm and various processing tanks, as well as accommodating specific processes such as double-barreled products, chill filtration, and direct access to bottling lines.

The processing and bottling facility will be located in Shelbyville, KY, near the distillery, and will be constructed with phased production expansions in mind to support future growth. The design and layout will be reflected in the process description and P&IDs, ensuring the facility’s ability to meet both current and future production demands.

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Distillery Equipment Relocation

Abarmore — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:28:32 +0000

For this project, our team was able to facilitate the distillery’s expansion of their touring facilities by relocating the fermenter pump. By tucking it behind a column, we achieved optimal tour route that provided the most aesthetically pleasing result for tourist experience. Our challenge was to ensure easy access for maintenance of the pump while providing adequate space to pull the mash cooler bundle for cleaning.

In order to take advantage of a planned outage, we produced a quick retrofit design that addressed all concerns and required considerations. Our comprehensive design allowed the relocation to be conducted efficiently during the outage, avoiding delays.

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Hydraulic Improvements and Capacity Increase

Abarmore — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:07:53 +0000

Our team upgraded the equipment pumps and piping in the cistern room to support the barreling capacity increase. The existing piping system required reconfiguration to fix hydraulic issues with the existing pumps and integration of an additional product storage tank. To support the distillery’s addition of four barrel filling stations, we also replaced three barrel filling pumps, replaced and relocated current truck loading pump, and upsized the piping to increase flow rate through the system. And finally, we installed new plate packs in the two existing plate and frame whiskey coolers, upgraded tank instrumentation, and audited the system.

C&I was able to achieve all of this while incorporating client’s specific requests and staying flexible with changes in scope.

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Mash House Expansion

Abarmore — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:41:25 +0000

Our team provided engineering design to expand the Mash Cookers, Drop Tubs, and ancillary equipment to handle an increased capacity of more than double. To achieve this, the drop system was converted from gravity feed to a pumping system and the traveling scale hopper system was replaced with a milled grain transfer system to the Mash Cookers. A new cooling tower was installed to support the expanded process demands.

Preservation of the historic building and maintaining tour aesthetics were key factors in this project. Our engineers embraced these challenges and provided a functional design that created impressive results. C&I also managed geographical obstacles, navigating complex government permitting and incorporation of flood design to maintain slope integrity for this project.

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