Effective and efficient water and wastewater management in distilling is crucial as large volumes of complex wastewater are produced, that need proper treatment prior to discharge. Not only this, but water plays a key role in the development process, for cleaning, heating, cooling, washing, disinfecting and the actual end product.
With over three decades experience providing both project-based solutions and outsourced operational management for water and wastewater applications, Alpheus deliver the following benefits.
Compliance assurance
Through our experience across multiple industries and operations, we can help ensure effective treatment processes and ongoing monitoring to ensure safe discharge.
Achieve environmental objectives
Environmental credentials are increasingly influencing consumer choices. Tap into our extensive experience in efficiency improvement, water recycling and energy recovery to help achieve sustainability goals.
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Lower operating costs
We review and analyse existing systems and processes to swiftly identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, such as process changes to make specific tasks simpler, faster, safer, or more cost-effective.
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Limit downtime
We employ industry leading on-site optimisation and monitoring practices and processes to prevent issues occurring and to ensure continued operation. We can also support planned downtime and re-start activities, to minimise impact to production.
Enhanced safety
Process safety is of high importance in distilling, so you can rest assured that as part of our commitment to providing industry leading service and safety, our team have been IOSH Process Safety trained.
Partnering with Alpheus will allow you to concentrate to delivering performance in your core business with the knowledge that your water and waste water operations are optimised and running efficiently and economically.
In 2020, we took over management of the Anaerobic Digestion based effluent plant at The Glenmorangie Company Distillery in Scotland. Within months of our appointment we were able to deliver significant efficiency and safety improvements, and cost savings, alongside managing a large scale hibernation of the Anaerobic Digestion plant during the COVID lockdown. This hibernation and re-start was an industry first - implemented with 100% compliance. We’re proud to have won Best AD and Biogas Support at the AD & Biogas Industry Awards in 2020.
As water, heat and steam are factors in the distilling process, this offers significant opportunity for resource recovery from waste water. This not only delivers environmental benefits, it can reduce operating costs.
Our talented engineering team can design and implement bespoke solutions to enable water re-use on site for:
Organic wastewater from the distilling process can enable heat and energy to be generated from waste through techniques such as Anaerobic Digestion, where microorganisms break down organic matter to produce biogas in the treatment process. This biogas can be converted to heat and power, thus reducing operating costs.
Combined heat and power: Heat and power created can be reused in the distilling process, as the energy created can be used to power the treatment plant or distillery.
Gas to boilers: Cleaned gas can be supplied to on-site steam boiler. We manage wastewater treatment operations for The Glenmorangie Distillery, and they do just this. The raw biogas created by the Anaerobic Digester is cleaned and fed directly to a steam boiler than runs on the gas to supply a proportion of their energy demand.
Gas to grid: Where it is not possible to reuse the gas on site, cleaned gas can be sold back to the grid to generate income.
