P32—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 7, 1980 with milk tanks UNIVERSAL PARK - You can save energy and cut the cost of heating water in a dairy operation by more than half by installing a heat exchanger to recover the heat now being lost to the air from the milk refrigeration system, according to Mark Shaw and Joseph McCurdy of Penn State. Heat is available from a milk tank refrigeration unit from two sources. One is the heat that is removed from the milk to cool it from about 90°F. to 40*F. or below. The second is from the electrical energy used to run the compressor. Most of this heat is contained in the hot gas which comes from the compressor. There are two ways to recover this heat. One is to nstall a special water cooled condenser unit in stead of the typical air cooled condenser. This would normally be con sidered when installing a lew system or replacing an ild, worn out unit. The second is to add a heat exchanger between the com pressor and the existing air pooled condenser, along with j water storage tank and a circulating pump. A thermostat in the heat exchanger starts the pump to circulate water from the grater storage tank through the heat exchanger whenever the compressor is running and the temperature NOW! CASH REBATES ROTARY SCYTHE the NON-ST Mower-Con that does th in ONE trip! 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"The sooner you buy, the bigger your cash rebate ” For more information, contact: ABRACZINSKAS FARM EQUIPMENT INC RD 1, Rt 42 Catawtssa, PA 17820 717-356-2323 AUMILLER’S SALES 6 SERVICE Milroy, PA 17063 717-667-2115 GRUMELLI'S FARM SERVICE Rd «2 Ouarryville, PA 17566 717 786 7318 IG SALES P 0 Box 200 Silverdale PA 18962 215-257 5135 Heat water m the heat exchanger is above the temperature of the water m the storage tank. The conventional water leater is thus supplied with water in the 120°F. to 140°F. *ange rather than cold 50°F.) water from the well. Some additional heating of water will probably be re quired to provide the high temperatures needed for cleaning pipelines, etc., but the heat exchanger will provide more than half of the energy needed to heat water. Berks dairy farm But mcluded among both are some noteworthy producers. Kerchenhill Bootmaker Tracy is classified as 82 good plus and had production credentials of 22,535 lbs. of milk and 873 of fat. Ar-Li Elevation Joan produced more than 21,000 lbs. as a three-year-old. Then, there’s Charm, a grade cow, who produced more than 20,000 lbs. as a four-year-old and peaked at 117 lbs. with her fourth calf this past winter. Expansion has mcluded a new milk house with 1500- gallon tank, a one-story addition to the bam, in creasing stanchions from 37 to 66 and a second silo for com silage. There are some additional or BALES (T> MILLER REPAIR RD 1 554 Gibbons Rd Bird In Hand, PA 17505 717-656-9013 PETNICK’S FARM MACHINERY RD 3 Honesdale, PA 18431 717-253-3794 CLARENCE R SEAMAN. INC Dauberville, PA 19517 215 926-5504/2285 WALTEMYER FARM REPAIR SERVICE RD 3, Box 46 Red Lion PA 17356 717 244 4168 Territory Manager DAVID D DEITRICH 703-667 3787 703-667-0363 As a rule of thumb, one gallon of water can be heated for each gallon of milk cooled. Heating water takes a lot of energy. One kilowatt-hour (kwh) will heat about 4 gallons of water from 50°F to 150°F. A typical dairy operation may use 250 gallons of hot water per day. Dus means at least 65 kwh oer day, which at 5 e per kwh, oosts $3.25 per day, about (100 per month or $l2OO per (Continued from Page D 29) areas that the Schlappichs will be looking at in the future. Manure is daily hauled and milking is done with Surge buckets and dump station. “But for the present we want to stay right at about where we are in size and facihties,” Arthur said. The couple has a daughter, Tammy, 13, and a son, Lee, 12. If and when, they are ready to move into the operation as the sixth generation of the fanuly on the farm, it’s certain that the continuing groundwork being laid in the present will guarantee both an agricultural future and an appreciation of the past. ZIMMERMAN FARM SERVICE Bethel, PA 19507 717 933-4114 TED BURNETT TIRES Rd 1 Westtown, NY 10998 914-726 3378 KNOTT & GEISBERT, INC Rt 2, Urbana Frederick. MD 21701 301-662-3800 E T CLINE t SONS. INC E First & Kuhn Ave Hagerstown. 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