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Sustainability in the beverage industrial sector: decarbonisation of a Scotch whisky distillery.
Rel. Pierluigi Leone, Sonja Sechi. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Energy And Nuclear Engineering, 2022
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Abstract
The importance of sustainability is nowadays well known worldwide and taken in consideration in every aspect of people’s lives. In this context, since energetically speaking industry is one of the most consuming and thus pollutant fields, the scope of this study is to analyse the beverage industrial sector, in order to individuate the options for a decarbonisation of facilities in this area. At first, a brief description of production processes of some alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages is made: soft drinks, brandy and whisky manufacturing are presented. Then, focusing on a Scotch whisky distillery, a variety of decarbonisation options that are applicable to each step of the whole production chain are listed and explained.
Considering that one promising option is represented by anaerobic digestion of by-products, with consequent production of biogas, the energetic potential of waste materials resulting from the three aforementioned beverages production is investigated in this sense
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