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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
May 11, 2006
Lorien Engineering Solutions has recently completed a GBP 2.1 million project for leading UK brewer Coors Brewers at its Tadcaster site.
Lorien Engineering Solutions has recently completed a GBP 2.1 million project for leading UK brewer Coors Brewers at its Tadcaster site.
The project involved replacing the entire keg in-feed system with new automated equipment.
Lichfield-based Lorien managed the engineering design, procurement, installation and commissioning of the new system.
The new line is capable of handling 11, 18, 22 and 36 gallon kegs at output speeds of between 420 and 910 kegs per hour.
Lorien Project Manager John Vakis said: "The project required careful planning to ensure production was maintained throughout the majority of the construction works".
"This was achieved by splitting the work into three discrete phases over a nine-month period, with line outages limited to three extended weekends only".
Full height screens were erected for each phase by building contractor J Tomlinson to segregate the civil works from adjacent production areas.
New floors and drains were constructed including a bunded area with tiling to accommodate the new external washer and new, high-level access walkways.
A key feature of the new development is a Schaefer keg depalletiser with automated locator board removal.
Vakis explains: "The main challenge was to engineer a clamping head capable of lifting the 36-gallon kegs in a layer pattern of four".
"For this purpose, a multi-pack clamping head was designed, capable of lifting a layer weight of up to 800kg".
"The kegs are depalletised layer by layer together with the locator boards".
"During the layer transfer, a special device removes the locator boards and places them into stillages".
"Due to the different keg sizes, there are also different locator boards, which are distributed automatically onto the respective stillages".
"In order to handle the heavy loads, conveyors with 10 chain strings are required".
Another key feature is a heavy duty KHS Till external keg washer.
The washer incorporates two high pressure pumps to ensure effective removal of labels, and three cleaning baths to cut down caustic contact time.
A plastic belt discharge conveyor and fleece is used for filtration of cleaning liquids.
Other features of the new system include KHS Till upside down keg detection and transfer to selective turner, Pelican controls foreign keg detection, Moody Fastpack heavy duty keg conveyors and a Rockwell Automation ControlNet network for interconnection of PLCs, remote I/O and inverter drives.
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