Game changing technology for chemical free cleaning and disinfection for milking systems
Pulse Oxidation for Dairy (POd) is set to be a game changer replacing chemicals to clean milking equipment – both whilst reducing costs, improving unit efficiency and sustainability, and lowering the unit’s C footprint according to Agri-Tech’s head of farms, Rob Morrison in a BBC Radio 4 Farming Today interview.
“POd has been proven to cut farmers’ energy costs by 24% primarily to heat water while removing the need to use so much chemical. The latter is a real benefit to both farmers and each one of us, reducing the C footprint whilst transporting product from Europe in blue plastic barrels,” he said reporting the findings of a DEFRA funded project carried out at Agri-Tech’s South West Dairy Development Centre.
“Wherever you need hot water and or chemical to clean and disinfect, then POd can substitute them without any downstream environmental impact,” explained Paul Morris CEO of Oxitech, POd’s developer. “The system has a very, very small cell, a tiny amount of electricity is run through it, the cell is placed in water, charged up and energised, and the highly oxygenated water becomes a disinfectant. When it’s done its job then the molecule returns to water.”
Rob Morrison added: “Like any new technology, the product has to be trialled; we’ve seen a positive result on this farm consequently if it can be replicated elsewhere, then we have cracked this game changing technology for the dairy sector.”
To find out more, tune in to Radio 4 Farming Today from 09.30 minutes in. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00269bj
