Delaval Holding Ab

Andrés Lundh

Epke Bosma

A milking arrangement includes a milk transport line (), a plurality of milk stations, and a cleaning arrangement () with a delivery arrangement () configured to deliver a cleaning liquid into the milk transport line () and a pump () configured to pump the cleaning liquid through the milk transport line () at a pressure larger than atmospheric pressure, thereby filling the transport line () with cleaning liquid. A control unit () is configured to determine a volume and/or length of the milk transport line () on basis of registered first point of time of pump start, a second point of time of passage of cleaning liquid through the milk transport line (), and the amount of liquid introduced into the milk transport line from the first point of time to the second point of time.

Milking arrangement

A milking system configured to milk animals includes at least one milking station, a milk tank, a transport conduit, a valve arrangement, and a cleaning arrangement that includes a delivery arrangement configured to deliver a first liquid into the milk transport conduit and to deliver a second liquid into the milk transport conduit, a pump, a controller configured to control the delivery arrangement, and a detector configured to detect that a delivery of the first liquid into milk transport conduit has ended. The detector is connected to the controller, which is configured, as a response to a signal from the detector that the delivery of the first liquid has ended, to activate the delivery arrangement to deliver the second liquid into the milk transport conduit subsequently to the ending of the delivery of the first liquid while there is a column of first liquid in the milk transport conduit.

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