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Malteries Franco-Suisses (Boortmalt Group)
Key Figures
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Commissioning date
March 2021
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Solar thermal collector area on trackers
14,252 m²
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Hot water storage volume
3,000 m³
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Expected annual production
About 8,000 MWh
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CO2 emission avoided per year
2,200 Tons
Heat customer introduction
- Boortmalt Malthouse Group, Europe’s second largest malt producer
- 160,000 tonnes of malt produced in a year
- Operating 24/24 365d/year
Principle of solar thermal integration
- Preheating of air for malt drying
- Integration of water/air exchangers in one of the site’s kiln
- Fossil fuel saved: gas
Key innovation
- Solar heat integration into an already energy-optimized industrial drying production line
- Project complementarity with the heat recovery systems already in place and the biomass boiler installed in 2012
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