Crolly Whiskey Distillery – Cooling and Heat Recovery

Crolly distillery was established in 2019. We were invited to design a cutting edge cooling/heat recovery system that would be capable of cooling rejected water from stills condensers (fisheries only allow the river water to be returned at temperature two degrees higher) and reuse the recovered heat in the process.
Two high temperature heat pumps was designed to deliver the task.

Rejected heat is being used to heat process water at 85 and 65 degrees. The water is used in the start of the process of whiskey distilling. Excess heat is being used to heat the visitor centre and distillery offices.
MasterTherm inhouse engineers have designed the entire system including plant room pipework, circulation pumps, motorised valves, heat exchangers etc.

The entire system is controlled, monitored and optimised online.

Crolly distillery produces premium whiskey and is also leading the way in energy efficiency and carbon foot print reduction in the industry. Their long term vision is to become a fully carbon neutral whiskey distillery.

Crolly Whiskey Distillery