HYPRO GROUP

Hypro is a Pune based company offering turnkey solutions for Brewing, CO₂ Recovery & Hygienic Processes. Hypro was founded in January 1999 by a first-generation entrepreneur Ravi Varma a Chemical Engineering graduate. Hypro has executed projects for Industrial Brewery, Mini Industrial Breweries, Craft Breweries & Research / Trial Brewery, CO₂ Recovery and Systems for Hygienic Processes. Hypro offers innovative energy savings schemes for breweries and CO₂ Recovery Plants.

Ravi Varma

Founder & MD, Hypro Group

HYPRO MEE CO₂ RECOVERY PLANTS

Hypro MEE CO₂ Recovery Plants
Carbon dioxide gas is generated in a brewery during fermentation of wort. The CO₂ generated is adequate to cater to the needs of CO₂ needed in a brewery. To be self-sufficient on CO₂ supply a brewery should have high efficiency and a reliable CO₂ recovery plant. Hypro’s reliable and proven technology for CO₂ recovery and purification results in the Most Energy Efficient (MEE) CO₂ Recovery plants.

Hypro MEE CO₂ Recovery plants find acceptance from Global Beer brands and are highly energy efficient CO2 Recovery plants. Hypro initiated into India the “Glycol based liquid CO₂ evaporation” which resulted in saving of steam energy and at the same time recovery of refrigeration energy. Nearly more than 40 such installations of Hypro are running successfully in India & Asian countries; Carlsberg India, UB Group, Carlsberg AG, SAB Miller, Ab InBev, Molson Coors, Blossom Breweries to name a few. Hypro CO₂ Recovery plants are looked upon as reliable CO₂ recovery plants and is clearly an import substitute, a technology which was dominated and mostly offered by European companies in India. The imported CO₂ Recovery technology has now been substituted by “Hypro MEE CO2 Recovery Plants”. These plants are not just running successfully in India but also in Asian countries.

INNOVATIVE ENERGY SAVING SCHEMES BY HYPRO

Hypro Smart Wort Cooling System
Wort cooling is a mandatory unit process in Breweries which uses huge amount of refrigeration energy. One of the innovative offerings from Hypro is “Hypro Smart Wort Cooling System” This wort cooling scheme has replaced more than ten traditional wort coolers in India and the numbers are growing. The offerings result in huge potential energy savings compare to traditional wort coolers and has been a proven product. The smart wort coolers are not only saving water for the breweries but also saving electrical energy spent in the refrigeration plant.

Multi Evaporation Split Refrigeration Refrigeration is a very important process in a brewing industry and obviously a major source of energy consumption. Conventionally breweries run with ammonia as primary refrigerant and glycol as secondary. Later on, few breweries opted for direct ammonia expansion scheme to save on energy required in the refrigeration plants to some extent by increasing the evaporation temperature of ammonia in the main plant. Owing to the burning issue on power savings the focus has certainly shifted to analyse if the current systems are energy efficient or there exists a scope to save on power in the current systems. Every unit saved on power not only is cost effective but also a tribute to a greener and cleaner earth. To make systems more and more energy efficient Hypro has focused on energy requirements in a brewery and now has one solution ready to be offered. Multi evaporation split refrigeration is a very innovative offering from Hypro which eliminates the risky direct liquid ammonia based cooling in brewing process areas but at the same time it offers power savings using the safe secondary refrigerant – Propylene Glycol.

CRAFT BREWING SYSTEMS

Craft breweries are expanding in India at a fast pace, with several entrepreneurs currently exploring opportunities in this sector and are expected to join the bandwagon. Brewing is a science as well as an art. Hypro has engineered the brewing process in a manner that is operationally easy, simple, with ease of access to cleaning the equipment and piping batch after batch. Every brewer wants his/her Brewery plant designed in a way such that the plant can deliver the brewing process parameters as per his/her recipe.

Hypro installed its first craft brewery in 2013, in Bangalore. Ever since number of Hypro plants have been installed in various cities across India and in Bhutan. Hypro offers technology for brewing and with its core expertise in design of hygienic process plants, it aims at providing the Indian beer industry High Quality Brewing System designed and manufactured to global standards. Brewery plants from Hypro stands out on quality and are a tough competition to plants offered by European suppliers. The advantage with Hypro is “Made in India by an Indian company”, being local and its understanding of the Indian market.

Another important aspect in Craft Brewing is the “CIP” Cleaning in Place of all the equipment’s and also pipe lines. This is an area where plants designed by Hypro excel and they help the brewer to maintain clean hygienic plant conditions. Hypro systems eliminate the possible contaminations owing to dead legs, dead pockets and in-accessible areas for CIP. An expert in hygienic plant requirements will easily notice this aspect being taken well care of in Hypro plants. In addition, to the process plants Hypro also engineers the services like steam, refrigeration, cooling systems in a way that they are optimised resulting in lower cost of operation. Hypro has always installed steam heated kettles for mashing and boiling which has its own unique advantages over direct electrical heated systems.

Hypro offers technology for brewing and with its core expertise in design of hygienic process plants, it aims at providing the Indian beer industry High Quality Brewing System designed and manufactured to global standards.

HyMi Brewing Systems: For research oriented professionals, Hypro brings a Smart solution in HyMi Brewing System which can produce 30 to 50 Litres of Brewing Wort in one batch. The distinct feature is a possibility of experimenting with variety of mashing cycles, infusion, decoction, single infusion, double decoction & triple decoction. One can experiment lautering cycles to arrive at most optimum parameters for faster wort collection and increasing the conversion efficiency in brew house at the same time. Compact design, steam based heating possibility of pressure boiling of wort and user-friendly panels with loggers are some of its benefits. Only the size gets smaller but all other features remain the same, and such that the results from HyMi systems can be related very much for scaling up operations. Precise process control in sync with bigger brewery plants is a distinct advantage with “HyMi” system. HyMi can also be a product for those seasonal market resorts where though the consumption is less, fresh crafted beers can be offered.

HYCRC PLANTS

Keeping in view the environmental impacts of CO₂ and looking at the higher and higher size of the Craft Breweries Hypro has introduced a very innovative product. The “HyCrC” plants from Hypro will recover CO₂ from Craft Breweries and make them self-sufficient in CO₂. These plants effectively stop release of CO₂ into atmosphere and reuse the CO₂ into brewing process. HyCrC plants produce as small as 6 kg/h of liquid CO₂ to 120 kg/h liquid CO₂, based on requirements (for larger capacities Hypro has the MEE CO₂ recovery plants). HyCrC delivers pure CO₂ > 99.9% v/v at the outlet of the plant and at 7/g pressure in vapour form which can be operated manually or automatically. The main advantage is they receive 100 % Food Grade CO₂ from a known source of generation, in house and eliminates handling of CO₂ cylinders.

With a vision of making the brand Hypro synonym with “trust & reliability”, Hypro is not just offering a process system but also a back-up of technology and knowledge to assist the brewery in their plans for setup, expansion and upgradation. Going ahead the market for speciality, hand crafted beer in India will see a growing trend. In the era of millennials, quality & reliability will be prime focus and Hypro’s ideologies are a right fit. Starting from just a one-person company, Hypro today is a company with over 80 employees and has the infrastructure base to deliver global standard plants and systems.