ERIKS UK & Ireland - Grundfos Case Study - William Grant & Sons’ distillery in Girvan, Scotland

There’s steam and there’s high-quality steam. There are pump solutions and intelligent pump solutions. ERIKS and Grundfos proved the difference at a distillery.
Do you take water with your whisky? At the whisky distilleries themselves, there’s no doubt about the answer. Steam: yes; water: not so much.

At William Grant & Sons’ distillery in Girvan, Scotland, steam plays a crucial role in production. Any water required in the process is preheated by steam. Direct injection steam is used when cooking the 5,000 tonnes of grain treated at the distillery every week. Steam is also used to heat the cooked malt or grain when it reaches the distillation columns – to remove the vapours that contain the all-important alcohol.

In other words, there’s a huge demand for a great deal of steam. But not just any steam.
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