VENTILATION SYSTEM FOR THE RENUKA AGRI FOODS PLANT
Renuka Group is another confectionary giant in Sri Lanka who is much focused on coconut milk and related products. Renuka has a plant in one of the export processing zones which exports canned coconut milk. Coconut milk manufacturing plants have heaters, steam generating points etc making it a hot zone. The temperature inside the plant rose to 40-42C whilst the ambient was varying between 32-34C.
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The extraction system was designed for 20 air changes per hour and infusing fresh air at a slightly higher rate than the extraction to maintain a positive pressure. The commitment from FEPL was to maintain the temperature inside the plant 2 degrees more than the ambient at all times which they did.