Dairy Manufacturing & Water

David Barr

AWA Innovation Forum18 March 2015

[Public Domain]

A challenge

[digireads.com]

An opinion

[www.uts.edu.au/staff/stuart.white]

A mass balance

Whole Milk @ 88% H2O

0.88 L water / L milk

Town Water

0.80 L water / L milk

Effluent

1.18 – 1.64 L water / L milk

Non-fluid Dairy @ 4 -50% H2O

0.04 – 0.50 L water / L milk

Closing the loop … sort of

Whole Milk @ 88% H2O

0.88 L / L milk

Non-fluid Dairy @ 4 -50% H2O

0.04 – 0.50 L / L milk

Effluent

0.18 – 0.64 L / L milk

Town Water

0.30 L / L milk

… plus 0.5L / L for beneficial reuse

Recovering on-farm

[TetraPak / Smart Water Fund]

Purging the pipes

Measuring the losses

Seeing the benefits

[Ovivo / Inghams]

But …

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Advanced Water Treatment plants

Brine and waste

Mains Water top up

AWTP

Water Storage

Factory

… how to reap the harvest ?

[Copyright © 2014 Rio Tinto]

We don’t know – but you might

Thank you