CASE-143 · Engineering case

Sustainable Water Treatment, Heat Recovery, and Wastewater Reuse

Operating utility improvements with verified savings, reduced chemical consumption, reclaimed water, monitoring, and preventive-maintenance ownership.

Conceptual engineering visualization: Sustainable Water Treatment, Heat Recovery, and Wastewater Reuse
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Why the Work Mattered

Purpose and Operating Need

Selected Rapid FEL / kaizen-capital hybrid at Medium / fast effort and Fast speed; sequenced as Wave 2.

Engineering Approach

Engineering Approach

Delivered utilities scope included nonchemical water treatment, steam heat recovery, ozonation and filtration, reclaimed-water distribution, instruments, HMI/data acquisition, commissioning, performance verification, preventive-maintenance ownership, and utility-team handoff. Led utility-equipment specification and installation coordination across instruments, HMI/data acquisition, recovered-water interfaces, heat recovery, monitoring and PM controls, through commissioning and utility-team handoff.

Outcome & Engineering Context

Outcome and Context

Delivered the integrated sustainable utilities system through accepted operational turnover and closeout.

Workstream Results & Impact

Workstream Portfolio Rollup

5,695,000 USD

Environmental Compliance and Recovery Systems

Recorded workstream portfolio reference. This is the workstream-level value and is not a project expenditure or a new total of reassigned projects.

Measures & Operating Detail

MeasureValueType & meaningAttribution & operating context
Forecast Variance to Budget138,000 USDScenario or Model Result
Forecast variance

Applies to: Sustainable Water Treatment, Heat Recovery, and Wastewater Reuse

Portfolio project register — Budget less estimate at completion; distinct from the difference between budget and final actual cost.

Biocide Reduction1,200 lb/yearActual Result
Recorded annual reduction

Applies to: Sustainable Water Treatment, Heat Recovery, and Wastewater Reuse

Utility improvements — Recorded annual biocide reduction.

Inhibitor Reduction2,400 gal/yearActual Result
Recorded annual reduction

Applies to: Sustainable Water Treatment, Heat Recovery, and Wastewater Reuse

Utility improvements — Recorded annual inhibitor reduction.

Energy and Water Savings82,000 USD/yearActual Result
Recorded annual benefit

Applies to: Sustainable Water Treatment, Heat Recovery, and Wastewater Reuse

Utility improvements — Combined recorded energy and water savings; do not assign the full amount to each component.

Water Reuse300,000 gal/yearActual Result
Recorded annual reuse

Applies to: Sustainable Water Treatment, Heat Recovery, and Wastewater Reuse

Utility improvements — Annual reclaimed-water reuse, distinct from the monetary benefit.

Engineering scope and design basis

Food ingredients manufacturer Capital Project Engineer; owning workstream PG-B-05; authority Plant Manager.

2014-01-01 to 2016-09-30; budget $6,900,000; forecast variance (budget less EAC) $138,000.

Directed the translation of approved scope into procurement and supplier-data requirements, construction/configuration work packages, inspection and change records, mechanical completion and readiness evidence.

Used requirements-to-acceptance traceability, WBS and control schedule, cost/resource registers, agreements and acceptance records, baselines, risk/change controls, commissioning evidence, training, and G9 ownership transfer.

Cross-connection and backflow prevention; hygienic sampling; ozone/contact and filtration control; protected storage and distribution; hold-time control; chemical and microbiological qualification; quarantine and release before reuse; alarm and trend integrity; leak detection and process/utility separation.

76 controlled project documents across nine lifecycle phases, 362 linked execution records, accepted G1-G9 gates, and final baseline PRJ-B-006-BL-OT-B01.

OPERATIONAL / CLOSED; 1,200 lb/year biocide; 2,400 gal/year inhibitor; $82K/year energy/water savings; 300,000 gal/year reuse; operational turnover completed

Operations received Integrated sustainable utilities system with accepted configuration, procedures, training, asset and maintenance records, residual-item disposition, and ownership.

Delivered Integrated sustainable utilities system, measured by 1,200 lb/year biocide; 2,400 gal/year inhibitor; $82K/year energy/water savings; 300,000 gal/year reuse; operational turnover completed, by executing Rapid FEL / kaizen-capital hybrid from concept through G9 closeout.

Actions, Methods & Controls

ACTIVITIES IN CONTEXT

Conceptual engineering illustration: bottling integration

TSK-000673 · Action

Scope-to-Delivery Work-Package Coordination

Sustainable Water Treatment, Heat Recovery, and Wastewater Reuse

Conceptual engineering illustration: control panel fabrication

TSK-000675 · Action

Led Utility-Equipment Specification and Coordinated Installation of Instruments, HMI/Data Acquisition, Recovered-Water Interfaces, Heat Recovery, Monitoring and PM Controls

Sustainable Water Treatment, Heat Recovery, and Wastewater Reuse

Conceptual engineering illustration: as built turnover

TSK-000678 · Action

Requirements-to-Acceptance and Turnover Controls

Sustainable Water Treatment, Heat Recovery, and Wastewater Reuse

Additional Technical Detail

Roles & contributions
  • Operations Team

    Operating Participation

    Team Contribution

    Received the — Sustainable Water Treatment, Heat Recovery, and Wastewater Reuse capability, procedures, training, records and operating ownership at turnover.

  • Project Ownership

    Full lifecycle project ownership

    Owned the full project lifecycle: capital planning and prioritization, need definition, feasibility and scope development, engineering and AFE justification, procurement and vendor coordination, construction sequencing and field oversight, commissioning, turnover, and post-startup support. Connected operating requirements with technical scope, funding decisions, execution readiness, and the needs of operations and maintenance.

Workstream context
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  • Result measures

    1,200 lb/year biocide; 2,400 gal/year inhibitor; $82K/year energy/water savings; 300,000 gal/year reuse; operational turnover completed

  • Case context

    Operating utility improvements with savings, reduced chemical consumption, reclaimed water, monitoring, and preventive-maintenance ownership.

  • Participation and responsibility

    Food ingredients manufacturer Capital Project Engineer

  • Participation and responsibility

    Owning workstream PG-B-05

  • Participation and responsibility

    Authority Plant Manager.

  • Scale

    2014-01-01 to 2016-09-30

  • Scale

    Budget $6,900,000

  • Scale
  • Scale
  • Scale

    Forecast variance (budget less EAC) $138,000.

  • Case context

    1,200 lb/year biocide

  • Case context

    2,400 gal/year inhibitor

  • Case context

    $82K/year energy/water savings

  • Case context

    300,000 gal/year reuse

  • Case context

    Operational turnover completed Operational effect

  • Case context

    Delivered Integrated sustainable utilities system, measured by 1,200 lb/year biocide

  • Case context

    Operational turnover completed, by executing Rapid FEL / kaizen-capital hybrid from concept through G9 closeout.

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