Food & Beverage
We all need water. In the food industry, businesses’ consumption of water ensures that the food we eat is kept clean and made safe for consumption itself. It is an ingredient. It condenses, dissolves and extracts. Water washes raw materials. It heats in boilers, chills in refrigerators and cools equipment.
In fact, water is such an integral component in food production, without effective management, production and food safety can be affected.
This is a challenge, and the bigger your company, the bigger the challenge. Now, more than ever before, businesses are required to demonstrate a commitment to water sustainability – it also makes commercial sense to boost profits through efficient water use.
Whatever foodstuffs you produce, whatever type of operation you are responsible for, whether it involves industrial or kitchen wastewaters, prepared meals or in-flight catering, the chances are that Ovivo already has experience in your sector.
Managing water from source to safe disposal
Ovivo can recommend solutions that will manage the water resources at your disposal safely and effectively, from pre-treating meats, fruits and vegetables on factory processing lines, to treating wastewater for reuse or disposal.
Every business has its own particular water needs dependent on location. Ovivo understands how water sources impact on processes. Food businesses handle the very substance of human wellbeing and are regulated accordingly. We appreciate that the means of disposal will determine the processes best suited to your own business.
A suitable solution for every client site
Your plant may process meats and require technology to deal with fats, feathers and offal. It may process potatoes, corn or soya and have specific requirements for dealing with starch. The broad range of dairy products creates varying forms of wastewater which each need their own forms of treatment. It may make drinks and require water to clean fruit at the outset of a process and clean bottles for packaging at its close. As a global water specialist, Ovivo has the capability to recommend and implement end-to-end solutions that extract the full value from water resources at your disposal so that you can maximize the output of your plant.
Food production can be highly seasonal. Inputs and outputs can vary accordingly. Ovivo’s knowledge of the food and beverage industry is rooted in our successful experience of helping factory operations achieve the results they require throughout the year. Ovivo specializes in designing, constructing and providing highly technical solutions for the treatment and recycling of wastewater across industries all over the world. However you help your customers fulfil their fundamental food needs, the chances are we can help you.
Industries in which we work
- Poultry
- Meat Processing
- Dairies
- Breweries
- General Food
- Potato & Chips
- Vegetable & Fruit
Poultry
The processes
Ovivo’s preliminary treatment by primary screening removes bulk solids (i.e. feathers, offal and foreign material). Finer solids are removed after chemical balancing in a Dissolved Air Flotation system (DAF). Ovivo’s DAF system can remove more than 90% of fats and solids and 70% of the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) load and produce water of suitable quality for discharge to most municipal treatment plants.
Meat Processing
The processes
Wastewater from meat processing usually contains high levels of fat, solids, nitrogen and phosphorous. Unacceptable Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) levels require treatment too. Typically a preliminary water treatment stage involves screening to remove bulk solids, such as offal and other foreign material.
Dairies
The processes
Ovivo’s broad experience of dairy food processing helps us to anticipate the wastewater characteristics and fluctuations of dairy wash water, be it mild from fluid milk plants, or concentrated from cheese manufacturers.
Breweries
The processes
Brewing produces a wastewater stream that is high in organic loading. Most of the organic component is soluble and requires biological treatment. Brewery wastewater is highly biodegradable and reacts rapidly, so biological treatment is efficient and simple. Ovivo can recommend the most effective treatment of wastewater depending upon the outlet for disposal, be it the local sewage treatment or recycling plant, river or ocean.
General Food
The processes
Screening as a primary treatment removes gross solids and foreign material. DAF systems remove over 90% of finer fat and solids present. For sewer discharge, some coagulation, pH correction and flocculation processes are normally used.
Potato & Chips
The processes
High soil and grit volumes in raw potato processing require solids-handling when conveying and dewatering plant. Ovivo’s effective, two-stage process for treating starch reduces chemical use and the quantity of sludge for disposal. DAF systems remove starch from sludge so it can be reused. Ovivo also supplies specialist process equipment to pre-treat and handle hot caustic boil-outs and other highly concentrated streams.
Vegetable & Fruit
The processes
Wastewater characteristics will vary greatly depending upon the types and condition of fruit or vegetable used and the processing techniques deployed (e.g. washing, blanching, peeling etc). Using brine or chemicals in processing involves specialist clean-up methods
The processes
The processes
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Case Studies
Case study 97
The prestigious Australian Prime Minister’s Water Wise Award recognizes water effi ciency excellence amongst commercial and industrial water-users and was won by Ovivo’s client, Inghams Enterprises, in 2010.
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The Nigerian Breweries plc, based in Ibadan, expand their treatment plant to fi lter surface water.
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