Water use and energy consumption in pig slaughtering-processing plants : characterization of practices employed in 8 stations

In 2009, the IFIP led a series of surveys and measurement campaigns in 8 different pig slaughtering and processing plants. The aim was to inventory the tested solutions that industry producers can implement for cutting their business-related water and energy (gas and electricity) bills. This research identified benchmarks and validated the best water and energy recovery and cutdown measures available. The study, based on comparative analysis of water and energy needs at slaughtering-processing plants, revealed that for a 90-kg carcass weight porker, water consumption averaged 355 litres, with LHV gas consumption at 18.24 kWatts and electricity at 16.04 kWatts. The results suggest there is room for different businesses to achieve more or less significant water and energy savings.