Refrigeration System Design
Dairy [200+], Greenfield Facilities [80+], Ice, Drink & Beverage [70+], Refrigeration [70+]A national juice and dairy processor commissioned CEITM to develop a central ammonia refrigeration system performance design for a new cold storage facility (+34 ºF) and future freezer (-10 ºF). The challenge in this project was that the client…
Crinkle Cut French Fries (3D Design)
Fruit & Vegetables [400+], Mechanical [30+], Retrofit Projects [400+]CEITM was contracted by a large international vegetable processor to provide complete engineering services including design, procurement, project management, installation oversight and startup/commissioning services for a new Crinkle Cut French…
Fruit Processing Facility Relocation
Fruit & Vegetables [400+], Mechanical [30+], Retrofit Projects [400+]CEITM was contracted by an Oregon fruit processor to develop general arrangement/layout drawings for five existing process lines (food service, aseptic, canning, compote, and FIH) to be relocated to a newly purchased existing facility.
The…
Greenfield Distillery
Greenfield Facilities [80+], Ice, Drink & Beverage [70+], Mechanical [30+], Refrigeration [70+]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…
Ammonia Piping Failure Analysis
Fruit & Vegetables [400+], Refrigeration [70+], Retrofit Projects [400+]
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…
Cold Storage Underfloor Heating
Greenfield Facilities [80+], Refrigeration [70+]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…
Site Master Planning
Greenfield Facilities [80+], Meals, RTE, Recipe [70+], Mechanical [30+]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…
Barley Malting
Cereal Grains & Nuts [30+], Greenfield Facilities [80+], Mechanical [30+]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…
Foreign Material Investigation
Dairy [200+], Retrofit Projects [400+]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.…
Chicory Processing
Fruit & Vegetables [400+], Mechanical [30+], Retrofit Projects [400+]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…