WineWorks, Marlborough
Nitrogen and compressed air solution helps a busy wine facility meet their targets.
Issue
WineWorks provides wine bottling and warehousing services for many of New Zealand’s top wineries. Their Marlborough facility was facing some major issues with the nitrogen and compressed air supply on their five bottling lines, so they reached out to PSL Total Air Nelson for help.
Data analysis showed that their older nitrogen generators, compressors, and other pneumatic equipment were using significantly more power than was efficient. As a recently accredited Toitū Carbon Reduce business, this was a key place to start.
On top of this, the equipment was at the maximum capacity, as well as becoming old and unreliable, and WineWorks were facing frequent faults and breakdowns. With their former service provider being based outside of their area, they were often having to use their own engineers or subcontractors to fix these faults.
They needed a nitrogen/compressed air solution which would allow them to operate to their full capacity and more efficiently.
Action
PSL Total Air Nelson installed three brand new SYSadvance NitroGEN N325 nitrogen generators and two new Kaeser ASD60 screw compressors to go along with the two existing compressors. This system created a pool from which compressed air would be supplied to the production lines and nitrogen generators, reducing the load on each compressor.
There was also a range of other equipment installed to replace the old equipment, including a Kaeser SAM supervisory control unit, a Kaeser TE174 refrigeration dryer, Kaeser filters, receivers, and more.
The Nelson team installed the new equipment on a mezzanine so as to not take up any extra floor space and they were able to complete the installation without any disruption to WineWorks’ production.
Result
The equipment supplied by PSL Total Air Nelson went above and beyond what Wineworks were hoping to achieve.
They saw a massive improvement in their energy consumption, with the electrical energy component of production services costs dropping by almost 50%, helping towards their Toitū goals, having recently stepped up to being Carbon zero accredited. While energy costs only make up a fraction of production costs, every little bit helps at a time when all expenses are skyrocketing.
They were also able to achieve increased reliability across both the nitrogen and compressed air supplies with 100% redundancy achieved, meaning no more downtime and lower maintenance costs.
Additionally, their quality of air supply was improved to reach food grade standards and the purity of nitrogen produced was also increased.
They were also able to achieve increased reliability across both the nitrogen and compressed air supplies with 100% redundancy achieved, meaning no more downtime and lower maintenance costs.
