Second Prize
Dairy
MOTHER DAIRY FRUIT & VEGETABLE
PRIVATE LIMITED
Patparganj, Delhi
Unit Profile
Mother Dairy, Delhi a subsidiary unit of National Dairy Development Board was set
up under the Operation Flood Project. The Dairy was commissioned on 4th
December 1974 and is located at Patparganj, Delhi.
Mother Dairy commands 40% market milk share in the organized sector in and
around Delhi, primarily because of consistent quality and service in whatever be
the crisis – floods, transport strike, curfew etc.
With a view to separating the commercial activities from developmental activities,
the NDDB merged Mother Dairy and the Fruit & Vegetable project into a wholly
owned company named Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd (MDFVPL) in
April, 2000.
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Mother Dairy has a state - of the - art manufacturing facility i.e. fully
automated milk plant with best of Dairy Equipment at Patparganj in Delhi
spreading over 39 acres of land and the entire bulk vended milk and ice cream are
manufactured at this site. It is one of the largest liquid milk plants in Asia with
768 captive retail outlets in NCR popularly called “Mother Dairy Booths”.
Over the years Mother Dairy has grown in size and strength and is undisputedly
number one in all the three categories it operates in i.e., bulk vended milk (11
lac litres/day), pasteurized pouch milk (20.0 lac litres/day) and ice creams
(35,000 litres/day). Mother Dairy does not just care for its customers, it also
cares for the environment people live in. Bulk Vending System that is unique to
Mother Dairy is an effective and environment friendly system of milk distribution.
In the process of adopting environment friendly and energy efficient technology,
Mother Dairy switched over to a new package refrigeration system, uses PNG in
Boilers, Solar water Heating System, Rain Water Harvesting System to arrest
decline of ground water levels. Also biodegradable organic solid Waste generated
is converted into Vermi Compost using red worms.
Specific Energy Consumption (SEC) Reduction during 2014-2015
During the last two years Specific Energy figures has shown below depicts continual
reduction in specific energy consumption due to its sustained efforts to conserve
it with the implementation of various energy conservation measures and ideas to
increase efficiency of equipments.
a. Specific Energy Consumption (SEC) Reduction during the period 2013 - 2015
Year
Product
Specific Electrical
Energy Consump.
kWh/lac litres
% Reduction
over
2013-2014
Specific Thermal
Energy Consumption
Million kCal/lac litres
2013 - 2014
Milk
5095.59
—
2.074006517
—
2014 - 2015
Milk
4386.41
13.918
1.878724597
9.4157
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% Reduction over
2013-2014
Energy Conservation Measures Implemented in 2014-15
Installation of New Energy Efficient
refrigeration Package Unit Existing & Old
5 Nos.of conventional Refrigeration Units
replaced with energy efficient & fully
automatic screw compressors Package units
consisting of PHEs, De-superheaters,
automatic capacity slides. By doing this, the
connected load is also reduced apart from
reduction of quantity of ammonia.
Replacement of existing feed water open
tank by covered and insulated feed water
tank with deaerator (also flash steam
recovery)The open Feed water overhead
tank installed in Boiler room is replaced by
insulated feed water tank closed type with
deaerator also having flash steam recovery
system. Total PNG Saved-5580 SCM/yr
Cost Saving
=Rs.286477/Total Investment =Rs.1350000/Provided proper insulation to the Steam
lines.The condensate recovery pipe lines and
hot water lines are insulated and replaced
the ineffective insulation with new insulation.
Total PNG saved/yr = 22672 SCM/yr
Cost saving = Rs.1280419-/yr
Investment = Rs.32000/-
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