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Food & Beverage
Food and beverage plants are defined by process heat, cooling, sanitation, humidity, ventilation and production schedules. WEI designs around those process realities first.
Food and beverage plants often reject heat in one place while buying energy in another. The best opportunities come from mapping the production process, thermal loads, utility systems and HVAC together.
WEI’s food and beverage work centers on thermodynamic modeling, production-based baselines, heat recovery, hot-water systems, controls and M&V — reducing energy intensity without separating process from building performance.
Explore how WEI connects process loads, heat recovery, utility systems, and facility operations to reduce energy intensity and recover wasted energy.
The first U.S. juice plant to pasteurize with hot water instead of steam — the Lehigh Valley facility uses recovered rejection energy for winter building heat.
Process heat recovery for LEED Platinum performance — thermodynamic modeling of BTUs per pound and waste-heat recovery for the first food plant in the world to earn LEED Platinum.
ENGINEERED. INSTALLED. VERIFIED.
WEI helps facilities recover more process energy, reduce purchased utilities and verify performance over time.
