Preliminary design of a small production plant of sparkling wine

Abstract

This project deals with the idea of a preliminary design of a small production plant of sparkling wine. From all over the process, the fermenter has been chosen as the element to be designed because of its importance in the process. The other parts and elements of the process are to prepare the main raw material, the grape juice, upstream and, downstream making the second fermentation inside the bottle known as “Traditional Method”. The main aim of the sparkling wine production plant is to achieve the objective of producing 50,000 bottles of sparkling wine per year. Furthermore, in this project is intended to know what is required to accomplish this objective in terms of raw materials, equipment, services and the layout of the production plant. Firstly, there is an extensive introduction which provides information about its characteristics and properties, the tendency of the markets, its regulatory, the description of the process and the recent improvements in this sector. Next, there is the proposal of the layout, once the requirements of the dimensions of the tanks and the fermenter, the space for aging, the automatic filling line are defined according to the objective bottle’s production. Finally, there are all the calculations and all the decision-making for the design of the fermenter required for the performance of the reactor to be capable of transform all the raw material into base wine in the highest quality ready for the second fermentation. The aim of this project is to do the preliminary design of the sparkling wine production plant focusing on the design of the fermenter which has to produce the base wine for the 50,000 bottles per year of sparkling wine. To achieve this objective, it is required a research of many aspects of the process, such as the raw materials, the reaction of fermentation, the methodology of manufacturing. Having analysed all the variables to be considered, then, the design of the reactor is able to be done considering the dimensions, the service of cooling, the controlling system and the material to be built