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CIP, Pasteurisation & Packaging-Line Energy
Clean-in-place cycles and pasteurisation are hidden hot-water heavyweights; the packaging line's own electrical and compressed-air demand.
10 min read · Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead
Ask someone to name a brewery's energy uses and they'll say the boiler and the fridges. Few mention cleaning — yet CIP (clean-in-place) and pasteurisation are genuine, substantial, and easy-to-overlook hot-water demands, hiding in plain sight between the processes everyone does think of.