Entries by Covert Engineers, Inc.

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Cold Storage Underfloor Heating

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 […]

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Site Master Planning

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 […]

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Barley Malting

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 […]

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Foreign Material Investigation

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 […]

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Chicory Processing

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 […]

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Whey Process Expansion

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. […]