Royal Innovation Award-Winning Milk Source Heat Pump — Proven to Outperform Heat Recovery on a 60-Point Dairy
NFU Report Establishes the Milk Source Heat Pump as the most Efficient Cooling and Water Heating Technology
Independent Research Published on Kilford Farm, North Wales
Kilford Farm installed a 60-point GEA Rotary four years ago, equipped with industry-leading kit: heat recovery, new milk compressors, and highly insulated dairy heaters fed by 55°C water. Until now, this setup was considered the undisputed king of dairy efficiency.
Our mission was simple: to prove that even against this top-tier equipment, the Milk Source Heat Pump stands alone. We set out to demonstrate that for cooling milk and generating hot water, nothing else comes close to this level of efficiency.
NFU Energy provided independent verification of the results, confirming our system’s outstanding success.
NFU Verifies Performance of Modern 60 point GEA Rotary Operating with Milk Source Heat Pump
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Heat Recovery replaced
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147 kwh saved for 15,000 Liters of Milk
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4000 Liters per hour of Milk cooled to 2.5 degrees
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Commercial Design
NFU Verifies Performance of Modern 60 point GEA Rotary Operating with Milk Source Heat Pump ✳︎ Heat Recovery replaced ✳︎ 147 kwh saved for 15,000 Liters of Milk ✳︎ 4000 Liters per hour of Milk cooled to 2.5 degrees ✳︎ Commercial Design
Kilford Farm Heat Recovery System Replaced
It took Mr Evans 18 months to say yes.
He had state-of-the-art heat recovery. He was already “efficient.”
He’d invested in a new parlour and had been told he had maximised performance.
He asked the same question many progressive farmers ask:
“Can it really save more?”
We guaranteed performance. If it didn’t deliver, the responsibility was ours.
That confidence gave him the certainty to move forward.
Today, the NFU independently confirms that Arkaya has delivered game changing savings — on a farm that was already considered fully optimised.
NFU Report on Milk Source Heat Pump Page 1
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