Case Studies

North British Distillery is hoping to generate a significant amount of the site’s electricity consumption with a new AD system. Established in 1885, North British Distillery is one of the largest Scotch Grain Whisky producers in Scotland, using up to 150,000 tonnes of cereal per year, with a capacity to produce approximately 10 bottles of whisky per second.

BV Dairy is hoping to generate more than 75% of the site’s electricity consumption with a new Anaerobic Digestion (AD) system. The high-rate liquid AD digester has been designed and built by Clearfleau Ltd. Ylem Energy has designed, supplied, commissioned and is operating the Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system that currently converts the biogas into renewable electrical energy for utilisation at the production facility.

Along the river Spey at Diageo’s Dailuaine Distillery, the company invested £6million to create a new bioenergy plant which used an aerobic digestion technology to treat waste water. The use of AD technology to produce electricity for use on site was a first in malt distilling, putting Dailuaine at the cutting edge of renewable energy innovation.