The Eco Advantage

Assessments and Audits

A first step towards understanding the current situation and establishing an implementation roadmap to meet short- and long-term sustainability goals.

Our services include:

• Energy and water efficiency assessments / audits ranging from a basic facility walkthrough to identify projects, to a full deep dive facility into the facility processes.

• Generation of a project roadmap to support achieving carbon neutrality objectives through energy efficiency projects.

• ASHRAE (American Society of Heating and Refrigerating & Air conditioning Engineers) level I, II, and III assessments

• Energy-mass balances for specific systems or facilities

• Water balances

• Facility water chemistry and conditioning assessments

• Compressed air leak and optimization audits

• HVAC-ductwork leak audits

• Steam trap audits

• Carbon neutrality audits

• Energy and water use tax credits studies

• Third party project measurement and validation

• Best practice audits and Legionella management - ASHRAE 188

Project Management

Our cross-functional project engineers provide the expertise to successfully drive your project from start to finish.

Whether it is an engineering project designed by us, or if you are looking for a third party to manage your project, and/or provide a separate set of eyes, our team can help.

Sustainability Consulting and Engineering

We support stakeholder alignment to ensure a successful implementation of sustainability programs.

We understand that a successful sustainability program requires that manufacturing goals around safety, productivity, and quality are prioritized. Furthermore, initiatives must have sound financial reasoning, complemented with measurement, verification, training, and continued support

Our goal is to support our customers with design engineering that enhances safety/productivity/quality, while driving energy and water use efficiency.

Our services include:

• CO2 emissions baseline and reduction roadmaps, including CAPEX and ROI modeling

• Carbon neutrality certification at a facility or brand level

• Net Zero strategy development and implementation

• Carbon emissions offsetting

• Electrification studies and implementation

• Energy procurement strategy

• Sustainability driven credits and rebates application support

• Greenfield facility design and engineering

Automation and Controls

Our in-house team of engineers works hand in hand with your operations team to design, program and implement tailored solutions.

Our services include:

• PLC and HMI programming

• Fault detection in processes

• Integration of peripherals (instrumentation)

• Communication networks, wired and wireless

• Design and upgrading of automatic processes

• Migration of obsolete equipment

• Monitoring and parameterization of processes

• Elaboration of electrical diagrams

• Engineering and project management for turnkey projects

• Elaboration of engineering as built drawings of existing processes.

• Process instrumentation

• Design and selection of equipment

• Installation and calibration of peripherals

• Maintenance of process instruments

Process Design and Optimization

One of our biggest strengths is our dedication to understanding our customers' processes. Even at facilities that manufacture the exact same products, processes may vary. Clearly understanding the manufacturing process, operational challenges, and organizational priorities, ensure that our engineering design is customized and drives optimization in an energy and water use efficient manner.

Optimization of Chemical Usage in Water Treatment and Processes

Adequate water treatment is essential for the correct and efficient operation of critical equipment such as chillers, boilers, cooling towers, and others. Chemical management is essential towards meeting operational safety and quality standards. Our customers typically have an existing supplier contract that provides chemicals and its onsite applications. Nonetheless, our customers may have ongoing concerns about overdosing, use of unsafe chemicals, excessive chemical costs, scaling, corrosion, piping, and/or equipment metallurgy impact. Furthermore, proper chemical use is essential for being able to re-use or recycle water. We work with our customers as partners to improve the use of chemicals to enhance process conditions, equipment longevity, reduce costs, and improve water use efficiency.

Our services include:

• Water chemistry analysis using ICP-OES instrumentation

• Evaluation of water chemistry conditions at boilers, compressors, chillers, cooling towers, RO (Reverse Osmosis), piping, pumps, and/or process equipment. To establish the current performance of the chemical treatment applied to the critical equipment.

• Water chemical analysis and recommendations on chemical use and dosing

• Water reuse, recycling, and treatment optimization

• Ongoing monthly evaluation and support for the water quality of the facility

• Onsite generation of environmentally friendly and safer agents to replace caustic solutions and sanitization chemicals.

Heat Recovery Engineering

We provide evaluation, design, engineering, and turnkey project implementation of heat recovery projects within manufacturing operations.

With over two decades of experience in successful project implementation, our team of expert engineers have been able to capture heat from ovens, furnaces, stacks, fryers, compressors, and provide solutions around:

• Supplying chilled water using absorption and adsorption chillers

• Flare capping with solutions that produce renewable energy and reduce CO2 and methane emissions

• Cooling and heating using air to air, air to water, and geothermal heat pumps

• Pre-heating using economizers and heat exchangers

• Low grade heat use for drying

• Optimization of oven performance and productivity to reduce scope 1 emissions (natural gas usage)

• Electricity generation using high-grade and low-grade waste heat with Organic Rankine Cycle and/or steam turbine engines.

• Identification of waste heat sources to implement a heat recovery boiler.

• Increase equipment efficiency around baking, moisture reduction, heating, cooking, cooling, steam use and temperature control

Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

Our team of expert engineers provides the knowledge and expertise to support full turnkey project implementation, including design, engineering, installation, commissioning, and ongoing support.

We provide services around:

• Elaboration of “as built” electrical one-line diagrams

• Electrical interconnectivity and capacity upgrades

• Power quality evaluation and improvement

• Electromechanical design and engineering

• Systems integration

Water Use Efficiency and Management

We provide services around:

• Conditioning and reutilization of RO brine reject water for cooling tower makeup or other uses.

• Condensate recovery and reutilization

• Process end user pressure optimization

• City water inlet water saving measures

• Water used in production tax credits

• Reduction of cleaning and sanitization (CIP or COP) water

• Water use reduction from drying optimization

• Water use maps, metering, and continuous monitoring

• Water filtering for process and treatment

• Hydraulic design and engineering to optimize flows, pressure, heating, and cooling

• Wastewater treatment plant optimization (primary, secondary and treatment retrofits)

Energy Use Efficiency and Management

We provide services around:

• Compressed air optimization (pressure, supply, demand, storage, leaks, etc.)

• HVAC optimization and electrification (Retrofitting or replacement to heat pumps, refrigerants, controls, ACHs (Air Changes per Hour), pressure differentials, humidity, leaks, and load design)

• Drying optimization (air flow, heat recovery, controls)

• VFD (Variable Frequency Drives) evaluation and implementation

• Optimization of pumping systems

• Optimization of chiller operations

• Analysis and implementation of heat recovery chillers and heat pumps.

• Industry 4.0

• Boiler plant optimization (controls, economizers, condensate recovery, steam distribution, pressure management)

• Electricity and natural gas use metering, monitoring and controls

• Heat Recovery (please see Heat Recovery Engineering section)

• Electricity generation from steam pressure drops

• CHP optimization

• Low temperature freezer and cooling optimization

• Backup energy generator optimization

• Industrial refrigeration systems optimization (ammonia and CO2)

• Analysis and engineering to transition to low GWP refrigerants such as ammonia