Covert Engineers, Inc. was hired by a design-build contractor to provide the utility and process design for a new, brownfield distillery project in Portland, OR including milling, mashing, fermenting, stills, tank storage, blending, maturation / aging and bottling. Utilities included steam, chilled water, process hot / cold water and compressed air as well as HVAC […]
An international food processing company observed corrosion of their aging High-Pressure Liquid ammonia piping on a long run from the engine room to the processing plant so CEITM was hired to perform an engineering analysis and calculations to determine the safe operating pressure of the damaged piping. Non-destructive testing was done by a 3rd party […]
CEITM was hired by a freezer construction contractor to provide engineering services in support of a new cold storage building being built in Washington State. CEI’s scope of work included design details for the under-slab glycol heating system and a thermal transfer analysis of the building envelope design. The goal of the analysis was to […]
CEITM was commissioned by an international food processing company to investigate the possibility of expanding an existing facility, within the property line boundary, to maximize production on an available site. A conceptual engineering design was completed including a phased master plan approach for expansion of the current facility, addition of new process and support buildings […]
CEITM was commissioned to provide the process area HVAC design for a new barley malting facility in Montana as part of a partner design team residing in Western Canada. Preliminary and final mechanical design was developed for all required HVAC systems including general building, germination vessel process air, humidification-controlled areas and CO2 exhaust. The challenge […]
A large international food processing company received packaged cheese products from a small dairy processor in Nevada and claimed that the product was contaminated with foreign material in the form of small pieces of plastic during production. CEITM was hired by the legal counsel for the processor to provide an independent 3rd party expert analysis […]
CEITM was initially commissioned in 2017 to provide expedited final design and startup of a portion of a new chicory root processing line in Gering, Nebraska. The initial effort was a very fast paced emergency engineering effort to provide process design, find used equipment and manage the installation of approx. $400k worth of equipment in […]
An existing dairy processing plant in the Midwest contracted CEI™ to provide the preliminary and final process engineering design to expand the capacity of the existing dairy production facility by several million pounds of milk per day for expanding their Whey production capabilities. The total project budget was approx. $155MM and the duration was approx. […]
CEITM provided engineering services for the design and installation of a fully automated retort line for packaging of canned products. This automated design was fully comprehensive starting with empty cans and aseptic product, and ending with assembled pallets of labeled cans wrapped and ready for shipping. The final design and execution were based on CEI’s […]
Greenfield Potato Processing Plant In 2016 CEITM was selected as part of the design team for a new, state of the art, greenfield potato processing plant. The total project budget was $250MM and included a 250,000 sq.ft. processing building, 43,000 sq.ft. receiving building and a wastewater facility. CEITM provided preliminary and final design for the […]