Project description
Optimising milk cooling systems for dairy farms
Milk has a relatively short shelf life due to bacterial growth between the collection and cooling stages. Conventional milk cooling systems take 90–120 minutes to reach optimal temperatures and can account for high energy costs. The EU-funded KUBBI project will perform a feasibility study for its innovative rapid milk cooling system based on slurry ice and natural CO2 as a refrigerant. KUBBI COOLING takes less than one minute and can chill up to 10 000 litres of milk per day. An added bonus is that this technology meets EU directives of halogen-free refrigeration. The project will provide dairy farmers with better milk quality, competitive prices and increased energy efficiency.
Objective
KUBBI COOLING is a milk cooling technology for dairy farmers based on slurry ice as the active cooling ingredient and
natural CO2 as refrigerant. The main advantages for the end users (dairy farmers) are superior milk quality, higher raw milk
prices and significantly lower energy costs for milk cooling and storage. KUBBI COOLING enables unprecedented rapid
cooling of the fresh milk (30-60 sec. vs. 90-120 min.), being 120-180-fold faster than conventional milk cooling systems; this
in turn enables much better preservation of valuable proteins in the fresh milk and inhibits bacterial spoilage. The
advantages for the milk quality are decreased microorganism growth and slower rancidification (degradation) of the milk fat,
directly and positively impacting the taste and the smell and extending the shelf life by 1-3 days. The timing of KUBBI
COOLING technology is ideal since recent EU regulation encourages adoption of halogen-free refrigerant solutions which
have none to insignificant Ozone Depletion and Global Warming Potentials (ODP and GWP). By supporting Commissions’
efforts to phase out and ban conventional refrigerants, we bring forward a solution working 24/7 for farms with 50-350
milking cows, using milk machines or robotic milking systems (estimated target 30,000 farms in Northern Europe alone).
LogPh Ltd.’s ambition is to introduce resource-efficient and cost-effective solutions for healthy and high-quality food. KUBBI
COOLING is produced as a size-customable module (as opposed to several separate parts of the conventional milk cooling
systems) and comes in 4 different sizes with the highest capacity cooling up to 10,000 l milk per day. In a branch which has
an acute shortage of cooling technicians, KUBBI COOLING is designed to be easy to install and support, without the
demand for a specialized technician.
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- agricultural sciences animal and dairy science dairy
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences ozone depletion
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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