New Work Toy

[professor_jonny]

This is something I have been working on it has been 1 year in the planning and development and a concept then this.

Basically it is a portable milk transfer station to transfer milk from tankers to contractor truck's that are not allowed to drive on side roads.

it is handy in the fact 3 tanker loads fit in one transport truck and it saves thousands of dollars driving small trucks back and forward between dairy plants.

It automatically starts stops changes valves automatically starts the generator etc it is all solar backed up with panels on the roof and as it has no fixed amenities you can just drop it on a concrete pad anywhere and be up and going with out council consent and building plans as you just load it on a truck and away you go to the next location.

The system prints out dockets on a label printer and does a nifty QR code and as it does it captures info on the milk and silo at the same time so when they turn up at Fonterra they just scan the barcode and they have all the info loaded into their plant with no hands .

The unload drivers just type in how much they want and press the go button and it fills their truck and automatically slows down when getting fill.

The system used a special control principal to gently pump the milk sensing if there is cavitation or possible damage to the milk and adjusts its speed to suit, if a truck turns up when a tanker is unloading it automatically stops and diverts milk direct to the loading truck to avoid double handling the milk reducing milk solid damage also.

[professor_jonny]

[professor_jonny]

use today there is currently 24 tankers lined up and around the corner and up the highway waiting to be emptied

[asbo]

I like it, shiny shiny metal

So you're a hero to the milk people now?

[professor_jonny]

I think we might be we were told it has saved 22 million dollars in three months.

Part of that is because of them not having to buy new tankers and being able to offload labour to contractors reducing costs of transport and ware and tare on their existing tankers.

[Nextelhalo]

Damn PJ, that's no small deal. Congrats on a successful crazy mod.

[RunsilenT]

Can you make one for beer Jonny, pre chilled with a choice of say 10 beers, same principal with flow to stop an excessive head on transfer.
A nice chiller included and choice of plastic keg size dispensed and filled with credit card swipe facility and customer loyalty perks scheme.
If so, lets give up the day job and save up for some more 40ft containers, IM IN!

[professor_jonny]

Can you make one for beer Jonny, pre chilled with a choice of say 10 beers, same principal with flow to stop an excessive head on transfer.
A nice chiller included and choice of plastic keg size dispensed and filled with credit card swipe facility and customer loyalty perks scheme.
If so, lets give up the day job and save up for some more 40ft containers, IM IN!

have a look at this it was made in nz it is a personal brewery it runs the same Omron gear as our container the Omron rep brought it to our workshop to show us.
It is pricy but if you enjoy fine beer this is what you want!!!


http://www.williamswarn.com/

[professor_jonny]

with credit card swipe facility and customer loyalty perks scheme.

That is currently not on the cards but we are in the process of designing/making a milk vending machine for installation at the farm gate at the moment the difference from all the other ones on the market being is that it will somewhat pasteurize the milk on the fly with a milk to water heat pump.

one problem of many is the milk has to get to 75 degrees and the hot side of the heatpump heat exchanger needs to get to 75 degrees within a specific time and we have to plate the thing in platinum so it wont corrode and it makes it quite expensive.

but the obvious one is that it will have less thermal mass in the cooling side because we cant chill the water with the same latent heat as the hot so it will require a waste water and a water supply, or the use of some sort of cooling/heating liquid that wont freeze but we cant use glycol for health reasons.

it will basically use a heat pump to chill one tank of water while heating the other then pump it through an exchanger to heat the milk instantly then cool it instantly after wards in a basic principal.

it is semi in the calculation stage I have to do some maths to see if it can be done form a normal mains socket outlet but that is a long way off from even being a proto type.

[RunsilenT]

Thats a nice home brew setup, a new level indeed. As far a s a milk vender, I`m assuming it would have
to be relatively self cleaning would it not? Would need a good drainage too as the hot and cold will
produce alot of condensate, keeping it small sounds a task in itself. Im sure it can be done as you
dairy guys are used to working with a LIVE product shall we say, all we ever see is UHT in
vending machines, be a refeshing change, Goodluck!

[xman]

Arr, proper milk. All our milk now comes from interstate when some fool thought it would be a good idea to have it all come out of Victoria rather than were ever the cows were. The major super markets took over and now, while you get milk for $1 a liter now, it is hardly the milk it used to be. All our milk now has "permeate free" written on it which after reading this article seems of little consequence... http://www.endeavour.edu.au/wellspring- ... free-milk/
What is alarming is the milk here has much processing done to it with all the goodness being extracted and on sold for baby formula manufactures etc. Additives include by products from cake mix manufacturing which shouldn't be required if only they left the stuff alone to start with. It is heavily watered down and seeing as the changes have come over a long period, it is very hard to tell until you actually get to taste "real milk" which I do do from time to time. I hope N.Z. milk doesn't become the rubbish we are expected to except here but when you mention Fonterra, I suspect the product is already tainted. Sad.

[professor_jonny]

We have farm fresh milk at home my wife works on a farm, but I hear ya, certain brands of milk are watery crap. Fonterra push the farmers for quality and give all sorts. Of bonuses' if you keep the standard, I just went to a grade free dinner shouted by Fonterra all the booze and food you could drink for free to grad free farmers.
They make more money with the premium products like uht and baby powder but cant make it if the milk subpar so we will allways end up with milk that is not as good as it use to be until milk standards rise. You will have to get a cow on the farm xman to have with your weetbix [SMILING FACE WITH SMILING EYES] till then.