Africa Beverage Industry Water Saving Initiaitve
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AFRICAN BEVERAGES INDUSTRIES WATER SAVINGS INITIATIVE (ABIWSI) Background Although Africa is endowed industrial and agricultural surface water or groundwater w i t h a b u n d a n t w a t e r pollution; disposal of sewage and polluted water. As much resource, distribution and and municipal solid waste into as the type of water that is availability for use varies s t o r m d r a i n s ; a n d being used differs within the widely. The African Water uncontrolled leaching of toxic region, the impacts of goods Development Report (AWDR) materials from dumpsites into and services on freshwater underlines that the challenge water bodies. Often, industrial systems can lead to local for Africa is to reverse the waste is being discharged into water depletion and pollution. present trends of rapid water rivers and lakes without Assessing the water footprint resources degradation treatment. The consequence of a product, community or through an integrated is that concentration of waste business is an innovative tool approach to land and water exceeds the ability of water to measure the location, time, resources management within bodies to assimilate them volume and type of water a h olis tic f ramew ork. resulting in lack of access to that is used to produce the A number of African countries clean water and widespread goods and services consumed are already facing water waterborne and water‐based by communities or produced shortage owing to natural and diseases. by business. Looking at the human factors and further production side, water is the Countries use diverse types of e x a c e r b a t e d b y h i g h principal raw material for water such as rainwater, population growth. Examples beverage industries. of such factors include OBJECTIVE The broad objective of this initiative is to promote efficient utilization of water and reduction of water discharge from African beverage industries and through this contribute to the fulfilment of the African Water Vision. African Brewery Sector Water Saving Initiative The availability of water in This also indicates that there and an in‐plant assessment adequate quantity and are opportunities for Cleaner that were conducted under quality determines the Production measures to the African Brewery Sector viability of these industries. r e d u c e t h e w a t e r Water Saving Initiative The potential to reduce the consumption in these (ABREW) in four African water consumption in these industries. Based on the countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, industries in Africa is outcome from a sectoral Morocco and Uganda) and in considerable, considering study (which showed that the context of the African t h a t t h e y e x c e e d African breweries are Water Vision, the African international bench marks for consuming 75‐200% of water Beverage Industry Water w a t e r c o n s u m p t i o n above the global bench- Saving Initiative (ABIWSI) significantly. mark), a framework analysis was formulated. AFRICAN BEVERAGES INDUSTRIES WATER SAVINGS INITIATIVE (ABIWSI) ABIWSI’s specific objectives Implementation of ABIWSI B u i l d i n g t e c h n i c a l The initiative is currently being capacities of African implemented in eighteen companies in beverage industries, seven countries (Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, industry support centres Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and a n d w a t e r Zimbabwe) in collaboration with the management institutions National Cleaner Production Centres. on integrating cleaner The participating breweries were able to production approaches. reduce their water consumption from an average of 16‐22 hL water /hL beer to 8‐11 hL water/hL, and participating soft Promoting water‐demand drinks companies have reduced the side management and water consumption to an average promoting Public‐Private of 4.5 hL water /hL beverage. Partnerships (PPPs), which facilitate the proactive It is envisaged to up-scale the initiative engagement of African and to extent it to the entire region – beverage industries in this publication of fact sheets aims to improving their water disseminate the results within the region utilization and in reducing and thus to support market uptake, their waste discharges. verificat ion, de velo pme nt and application of technical standards, Contributing to dialogue on identification of and collaboration with required policy and users as well as identifying potential strategy reorientation for partners and sources of finance for more sustainable continued up‐scaling of the initiative patterns with regard to within the region. The results will also be water management promoted through the Resource and utilisation. Efficient and Cleaner Production Network (RECPnet) that brings together National Cleaner Production Centres and RECP promoting institutions. BEDELE BREWERY SHARE COMPANY General Information Bedele Brewery was established in 1993 in the South Western of Ethiopia, Oromia Region, Illubabor Zone Bedele City, 500km from Addis Ababa. The main market for Bedele is the domestic mainly in the north west, west, south, central and south west of Ethiopia. Beer is also export- ed to USA, Canada, Australia, Israel and Su- dan. The factory is owned by the Government of Ethiopia, under the control of the Federal At the moment Bedele has a production capac- Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Privatization ity of 250.000 hl/yr. and Public Enterprise Supervising Agency Bedele has the following management systems in place: ISO:9001:2000, ISO 14001-2004. Bedele’s KPI [hl/hl] monthly average was 7.25 in 2010 Outputs Bedele’s KPI [hl/hl] in 2010 The main output is: Beer: 250.000 hl/yr (in 2010) 14 12 10 8 hl/hl 6 KPI 4 2 0 Jan Mar May July Sept Nov Water use and effluent treatment Effluent treatment methods: Currently Bedele is treating its effluent from the production process and finally discards their effluent in the Nile. Since Ethiopia hasn’t put a Polluter Pays Principle in place, Bedele is not paying for discarding their effluent. AFRICAN BEVERAGE INDUSTRY WATER SAVINGS INITIATIVE - ABIWSI BEDELE BREWERY SHARE COMPANY Water awareness and reduction measures In order to reduce their water consumption, The brewery has its own water treatment Bedele has taken the following measures: and dispenser system. During dispensing for production there is pneumatic flow sensor to Maintenance of the water dispensing line add or stop additional pumps to meet the and standardization of all water flow meters minimum water pressure requirement but this with the initial measurement was carried. system was not functional for long period of CO2 plant’s water draining from time as a result the water was supplied for compressor was identified and simple pipeline production with two pumps continuously. was constructed to the main cooling tower Identifying this, the technical team adjusted reservoir to retain water. the system and put the control mechanism The brewery has two wort cooling system with the necessary document together with the old and new one, the new due to minor the operator’s training. The result is technical failures was non functional for the satisfactory that 90% of the time the last 10 months and this problem was solved dispensing is by single pump, meeting the by the brewery technical team and the new minimum water pressure requirements computer aided cooling system was functional The necessary signs and posters were since January. The two cooling systems have placed near potential water draining sites with 100% water saving difference. necessary training to all the personnel. Impact of ABIWSI After implementation of ABIWSI the average KPI of 15.1 hl/hl reduced to an average of 9.97 hl/hl by the end of August 2010. AFRICAN BEVERAGE INDUSTRY WATER SAVINGS INITIATIVE - ABIWSI BEDELE BREWERY SHARE COMPANY Specific process information Bedele is the one of the largest beer producers in Ethiopia. Underneath is a global process diagram. AFRICAN BEVERAGE INDUSTRY WATER SAVINGS INITIATIVE - ABIWSI CROWN BEVERAGES LIMITED General Information Crown Beverage Limited was established in 1987. The main market for Crown is local. Crown currently employs approximately 402 people and as a production installed capacity of 1,468,800 hl/yr (out-put for 2010 was about 64.6% of installed capacity). A growth of 15% was anticipated in 2011. The yearly turn-over is approximately 55.7 Billion Ugandan Shilling/year. Crown has the following management systems in place: Quality, Information (ERP), Security Health and Safety. The type of management systems under development: Environmental Management System (ISO 14001). Crowns Water KPI [hl/hl] average in Crowns Water KPI [hl/hl] average in 2010 was 3.79 2011 was 3.71 Crowns Water KPI [hl/hl] in 2010 Crowns Water KPI [hl/hl] in 2011 5 4 4 3.8 3 3.6 hl/hl hl/hl 2 KPI 3.4 KPI 1 3.2 0 3 Jan. Mar May July Sept Nov Jan. Mar May July Sept Nov Major inputs 2010 2011 Remarks Major outputs 2010 2011 Remarks Steam (Boiler 1,119,389 1,144,150 Carbonated soft 948,333 1,044,170 Fuel) Litres drinks (hl) Water (hl) 3,603,730 3,869,270 Waste water (hl) 2,054,000 2,036,000 Estimated Electricity (Kwh) 3,970,472 4,262,353 Broken & worn 32,533 116,398 Major out glass (Kgs) replace- Sugar (Kgs) 13,016,40 14,511,026 ment of 6 worn-out Concentrates 25,531 28,261 (Units) Backwash water 108,000 109,900 Recycling Carbon dioxide 1,062,300 New beverage (hl) started Dec (Kgs) 1,429,757 processor was 2011 installed. Caustic Soda (Kgs) 254,970 342,850 AFRICAN BEVERAGE INDUSTRY WATER SAVINGS INITIATIVE - ABIWSI CROWN BEVERAGES LIMITED Specific process information Crown is one of the larger soft-drink producers in Uganda.