FUTUREPROOFING YOUR DISTILLERY
At BRIGGS, we are dedicated to Processing Your Future.
We design and deliver innovative solutions to perfect the sustainable production of life’s liquids. Briggs ThermoDrive reduces your energy usage and lowers your carbon footprint
How ThermoDrive works
A key technology to enable sustainable process heating
Key benefits
High Energy Efficiency
ThermoDrive is designed to maximise your energy efficiency of your still house – typically +90% energy saving on wash distillation. MVR systems offer Coefficient of Performances (COP) >10.
Enables Decarbonisation
ThermoDrive enables decarbonisation through reduction of energy consumption and electrification (fuel switching) to potentially renewable and green energy tariffs.
Low Maintenance
ThermoDrive features a single compressor with only a few moving parts. It has a lower maintenance requirement to keep you in production longer.
ACHIEVEING AMBITIOUS GOALS
Market leaders in innovative technologies
Energy Savings
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ThermoDrive is designed to maximise your energy efficiency of your still house – typically +90% energy saving on wash distillation MVR systems offers COP >10.
Average pay back period
*Dependant on options selected
Specific payback dependent on a number of factors and calculated with input from you to our Technical Sales team.
2
kWh / LPA saving
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MVR technology combined with other heat recovery technologies from the Thermo range can see dramatic shifts in energy efficiency (Malt Whisky distillery typically in the range of 7 – 10 kWh / LPA).
Case study
GlenAllachie will feature next-generation Mechanical Vapour Recompression (MVR) system – BRIGGS ThermoDrive
Launching in January 2025
- Fully implemented solution on two 21,000 Litre wash stills (built by McMillan
Coppersmiths) - System has been retrofitted to an existing stillhouse
- Featuring 2 x BRIGGS ThermoDrive systems
- Designed to achieve +90% energy saving on wash distillation
Find out more about the project by visiting here:
THE GLENALLACHIE DISTILLERY AWARDED GRANT FOR DECARBONISATION PROJECT – The GlenAllachie Distillery
GlenAllachie distillery – a multi-award-winning distillery, based in Aberlour, Scotland
BESPOKE SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR DISTILLERY
Site Specific Options
Additional benefits through site specific optioneering:
Low Noise
Specialist sound deadening enclosure (reduces sound to below 78 dB) allowing for continuation of stillhouse tours
ATEX Compliant
Fully rated for stillhouse installation – reducing additional civils works
CONTACT US
Interested in Thermodrive? Get in touch.
INDUSTRY LEADERS IN THERMO INNOVATION
We’ve been working on Scotch malt whisky heat recovery solutions for over 30 years.
1986
BRIGGS (through historic company: Robert Morton) – working Mechanical Vapour Recompression system at Auchroisk Distillery (10 years)
2014 - 2024
Installed BRIGGS ThermoJet - Thermal Vapour Recompression (TVR) systems - at distilleries across Scotland, Mexico, and China for over a decade.
2022 - 2024
Latest generation BRIGGS ThermoDrive - Mechanical Vapour Recompression (MVR) system being built for GlenAllachie distillery following Feasibility and Deployment Grants through Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (SIETF)
OUR SUITE OF THERMO ENERGY SOLUTIONS