The flow specialist The Munich Oktoberfest is the world s biggest folk festival 6 3 million people in partying mood flocked to the Wiesn in 2019 Most of them just came for one thing drinking beer A total of 7 3 million liters 1 93 million gallons this year Uwe Daebel Head of Filling and Packaging Technology at the Paulaner Brewery is the man who s instrumental in ensuring that the stream of beer never runs dry His company is the supplier to 18 large and smaller beer tents at the Oktoberfest It s a high pressure job in more ways than one Especially in the large tents where up 9 300 people want to be served the supply became increasingly difficult Uwe Daebel rose to the challenge by coming up with the idea of using a ring line to supply each of the three largest tents with beer Amazingly The system operates without mechanical pumps only carbon dioxide acting as a pressurizer pumps the beer to the taps Daebel explains Sounds simple but there s a lot control technology and software from Siemens working in the background Via an internet connection Daebel can read all the relevant data on his Mug o Meter from anywhere in the world flow speed consumption pressures temperatures fill levels and so on First thing in the morning Daebel looks at his Mug o Meter to check if the scheduled amount for the day was actually delivered overnight or as Daemel puts it if the tanks have been unloaded and the status of the system Daebel If fest tent mode is activated I know that the tank unloading at night was successful Otherwise I try to get in touch with the tank crew and discuss the relevance of the trouble with them If all else fails the 62 year old himself will check and troubleshoot before the beer tent opens or else there ll be long faces among the visitors and the tent operators Every hour of system failure would amount to 12 000 unsold mugs equating to lost sales of about 130 000 euros is the average time it takes to fill a mug at the Oktoberfest of Munich s power demand flows to the Oktoberfest during the Wiesn weeks energy is required to cool the beer pipeline The beer is delivered in refrigerated condition and keeps its temperature until being drawn from the tap 3 sec 13 0 Ensuring that the mugs are filled In addition to all the beer carnival rides at the Oktoberfest may cause visitors to feel like they re spinning above Contactless radar technology measures the fill level of the beer kegs below 27 Global

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