CASE-086 · Engineering case

Cooling Financial Engineering and AFE Justification

Built the capital case by showing the true cost of failed chiller infrastructure.

Conceptual engineering visualization: Cooling Financial Engineering and AFE Justification
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Why the Work Mattered

Purpose and Operating Need

Built the capital case by showing the true cost of failed chiller infrastructure.

Engineering Approach

Engineering Approach

Built Repair-Vs-Replace Model Using Historical Spend, Tanker Costs, Labor/Freight Exposure, Depreciation, Write-Offs, and Production Impact.

Outcome & Engineering Context

Built the capital case by showing the true cost of failed chiller infrastructure.

Workstream Results & Impact

Workstream Portfolio Rollup

14,998,000 USD

Cooling and Utility Reliability Modernization

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
Downtime OPEX Exposure per Repair Dollarapproximately 1.8 USD/USDScenario or Model Result
Modeled exposure ratio

Applies to: Cooling Financial Engineering and AFE Justification

Approximately $1.80 additional freight/labor OPEX exposure per $1 chiller repair cost.

Engineering scope and design basis

$1.80 added freight/labor OPEX per $1 repair; temporary tanker operations from 2018-2020.

Actions, Methods & Controls

ACTIVITIES IN CONTEXT

Additional Technical Detail

Roles & contributions
  • 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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Project ownership and delivery context

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.

modeled demand and the roughly 78-ton peak thermal deficit, coordinated pumps and recirculation, and developed chiller staging and runtime balancing. Operating visibility and process-load monitoring connected the three 160-ton production chillers with the way the plant used cooling capacity.

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