Cooling, storage & testing
DeLaval closed milk cooling tanks
These tanks are available in sizes from 1100 litres up to 32000 litres, encompassing the world’s biggest selection of milk tanks for the agro sector. Our DX range is strongly manufactured to safeguard a long lifetime and offer a high trade-in value. We invite you to move one step further towards full control of your tank cleaning process by seeing our wide range of closed cooling tank types and sizes on the following pages.
DeLaval energy recovery systems
DeLaval heat recovery system generates warm water using a milk cooling process. This solution can recover up to 60 percent of the heat extracted from cooling milk and convert it to hot water for use in all your pipeline and parlour cleaning. Milk cooling to a low storage temperature is an essential part of your daily routine. The environmentally-friendly DeLaval heat recovery system generates warm water from the milk cooling process. The energy removed from this process generates warm water rather than hot air. In fact for every litre of milk cooled, 0.7 litres of warm water is produced.
DeLaval plate coolers and water distribution
Milk is refrigerated to maintain its quality for as long as possible, and to reduce the growth of bacteria. You can achieve more cost-efficiency in on-farm milk cooling if the milk is pre-cooled – using well water through a heat exchanger – before it enters the milk tank for cooling by refrigeration. Both these cooling stages must work efficiently to maintain maximum milk quality. Making sure you have the correct waterto- milk flow rate to pre-cool the milk before it enters the bulk tank will optimize pre-cooling efficiency. We recommend 1.5:1 or 1:1 water-tomilk flow rate.
