As part of a project to increase production capacity at their Burton site, Soufflet Malt UK, in addition to building two new germinating vessels, tasked DVE with converting the existing germinating-kilning vessels to operate in tandem. The phased sharing air allowing greater plant throughput from the existing fans and heaters. In order to utilise the full capacity of their new germination vessels, Soufflet Malt needed to reduce the time between batches off the kilns. DVE was contracted to modify the system to allow the kilns to run at phased intervals so that air off the leading kiln could be shared by the lagging kiln. The project required the installation of significant amounts of new ducts, control dampers and instruments in a very narrow installation window. The control dampers were all DVE standard low leakage models fully manufactured from 304 stainless steel.
DVE and their controls contractor March, developed the complex software to control the system safely and efficiently.