Refrigeration System Design

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…