This week I finished up a potential design to include a CIP across the entire stabilizer system. After getting approval of my design from Monique, I started to draw a piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) on Microsoft Visio. The P&ID will help show where the piping and process equipment are with relation to the new instrumentation and control devices that I am including in my design. I hope to have this finished in the next couple of days, so I can perform cost analysis if I have enough time. We participated in taste testing again this week. I can now tell more frequently when a beer is off , but it's still hard to describe what is wrong with it. However, I think I am starting to pick up certain scents and tastes. For example, I can easily detect when a beer has too much acetaldehyde (AA), which makes the beer smell like green apples. Another thing I am sensitive to is diacetyl which gives the beer a butterscotch smell if there is too much of it. It ...
Last Sunday the third intern, Rudy, arrived here. We were able to start getting him up to speed on the way the program is working and get to the store to get our food with him without having to go too late. After this week w're officially half way through our time in South Africa. This week I really started getting into my projects, working on a report on the brewery's compliance with company policies, my calculations for the potential upgrade to the CHP plant, and doing the prep work for the repair of a heat exchanger in the boiler room. I've also been shadowing Myron around the plant has he takes care of various problems around the plant. So I'm getting a lot of great industry experience between the work I'm doing and getting to watch the more advanced stuff Myron does. This Saturday we went to the Pretoria National Botanical Garden and walked around, getting to see the waterfall and the various gardens. We had a bunch of fun walking around and seeing all the...
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