The leader of the UK’s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) industry has revealed its potential benefit to food and beverage companies over more traditional energy models.
Rob Shuttleworth, chief executive of the trade body UKLPG, said: “As an important part of the UK’s energy mix, LP Gas will play a potentially pivotal role in the transition towards a more secure, sustainable and competitive energy model.”
LPG’s reputation as a clean, low carbon fuel is underlined by his claim that, upon combustion, it produces 33% less carbon dioxide than coal and 15% less than oil.
Shuttleworth continued to cite several examples of the application of LPGs within the food and beverage industries, including that of a “large packaging manufacturer” who he claimed, by changing its energy supply from oil to LPG, had reduced its carbon footprint by nearly 30% and saved £42,000.
In the whisky distilling sector, he said that the introduction of LPG, along with other energy saving and heat recovering measures, had reduced the amount of energy used by one Scottish distillery by almost 35% per litre of whisky they produced.
His claims coincide with a period of wider awareness of the merits of renewable forms of energy, with energy prices representing a significant cost to food and drink manufacturers.
Shuttleworth concluded: “The fact that LP Gas can be integrated with low-carbon and renewable technologies makes it an increasingly attractive option for commercial and industrial sites in the food and drink sector”.
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