Inside a Typical Food Plant
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Boiler Systems
- Pretreatment Equipment
- Scale & corrosion control
- Condensate corrosion control
- Steam trap maintenance
- Fuel treatments
- Heat recovery & control equipment
Industry Challenges
- Optimizing energy efficiency
- Improving asset protection
- Maintaining trained plant operators
- Assuring regulatory conformance
- Maintaining food safety and steam quality
Nalco Solutions
- FDA approved condensate treatment / Nalco ACT® FG
- Internal treatment with TRASAR® control
- 'Best Practices' internal treatment programs and management services
- Pretreatment system management services
- Steam trap management services
- 'Hands free' chemical delivery services
- Nalco Customer University web-based training
Sustainable Savings
- Lower total cost of operation
- Asset protection
- Improved personnel safety practices
- Consistent steam and condensate quality
- Regulatory conformance
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Cold Storage / Freezers
- Scale control
- Exterior surface cleaning
- Anti-foulants & microbiological control
Industry Challenges
- Reducing evaporative condenser electrical costs
- Maintaining efficiency of shell and tube heat exchangers
- Preventing scale, fouling and corrosion in condensers and heat exchangers
- Maintaining clean house water piping surfaces
Nalco Solutions
- Corrosion and scale control programs
- Microbicides
- House water treatments
- 'Hands free' chemical delivery systems
- Off-line cleaners for internal and external surfaces
Sustainable Savings
- Lower total cost of operation
- Reduced evaporative condenser energy costs
- Improved efficiency in shell and tube condensers
- Improved air flow thru evaporative condensers
- Extended service life of equipment
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Cooling Systems (Open / Closed)
- Scale & corrosion control
- Microbiological control
- Water conservation & reuse
- Fuel treatments
- Heat recovery & control equipment
Industry Challenges
- Optimizing energy efficiency
- Improving asset protection
- Eliminating 'White Rust'
- Maintaining trained plant operators
- Adjusting to raw water variability
Nalco Solutions
- Cooling stress management / 3D TRASAR™
- Scale and corrosion control programs
- Microbicides and anti-foulant programs
- 'Hands free' chemical delivery services
- Nalco Customer University web-based training
Sustainable Savings
- Lower total cost of operation
- Asset protection
- Improved energy efficiency and MRO expense control
- Optimized water costs
- Improved operator efficiency
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Environmental Sustainability (water, air, solids)
- Effluent discharge conformance
- GRAS polymers
- Odor control
- Lagoon and digester optimization
- Waste minimization
Industry Challenges
- Meeting effluent discharge (TSS, BOD, FOG) conformance
- Achieving waste minimization
- Developing water reuse programs
- Reducing sludge disposal costs
Nalco Solutions
- GRAS Polymers
- Odor control/prevention programs
- Bioaugmentation programs
- Latex/Dry Polymer Coagulants/Flocculants
- Outsourcing management programs
Sustainable Savings
- Lower total cost of operation
- Meet stringent effluent conformance limits
- Reduced haul-out costs
- Eliminate odor complaints
- Outsource WWTP operations
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Facility Care
- Housekeeping
- Drain water cleaning
- Cleaners: pre-op & off-line
- Site management
- Inlet air cleaning
- Vehicle & grounds cleaning
Industry Challenges
- Reducing high energy costs of plant air handling systems
- Controlling plant inlet air contamination and bacterial ingress
- Improving plant drain system maintenance
- Improving indoor air quality
Nalco Solutions
- Inlet air management services- CoilCare
- Plant drain management services- DrainCare
- Floor and surface cleaning programs
- Interior/exterior odor control/prevention programs
- Oil absorption technology
Sustainable Savings
- Lower total cost of operation
- Energy savings in plant air inlet, air handling and air conditioning systems
- Minimize airborne contamination
- Minimize bacteria ingress via floor drains
- Eliminate odor complaints
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Pretreatment
- NSF treament; raw water
- Raw water disinfection
- Pretreatment equipment
Industry Challenges
- Providing high quality water for process and utility system use
- Protecting pretreatment capital assets from corrosion, fouling and scale
- Controlling microbiological growth in potable water
- Assuring regulatory conformance
- Adjusting to raw water variability
Nalco Solutions
- RO performance chemicals and services
- NSF-approved chemical programs
- TRASAR® control for RO
- Resin management chemicals and services
- Chlorine dioxide/ozone feed and management services
- Operation and maintenance services
Sustainable Savings
- Lower total cost of operation
- Asset protection
- Improved pretreatment equipment efficiencies and uptime
- Regulatory conformance
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Process Systems
- Foam control
- Thermal processing
- Wash aids: fruits & vegetables
- House water
Industry Challenges
- Maximizing production line speeds
- Optimizing seasonally used production/thermal equipment, including can/bottle coolers and warmers
- Maintaining quality of process and potable water pretreatment
- Assuring regulatory compliance
Nalco Solutions
- RO Eye™ monitoring and control
- Scale and corrosion control programs
- NSF cleaners, antiscalants and inhibitors
- Food grade defoamers
- Process microbicide programs including ACTIBROM® and STABREX®
Sustainable Savings
- Lower total cost of operation
- Asset protection
- Increased production efficiency
- Reduced quality rejects
- Improved RO reliability and membrane life
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Program Management
- Quality standards
- GMP
- Total Cost Optimization
- Risk management
- FDA/NSF approved products
Industry Challenges
- Improving total cost of operation of water systems
- Assuring regulatory and environmental compliance
- Improving quality standards of suppliers
- Maintaining GMP
- Utilizing outsourcing, if possible
Nalco Solutions
- Periodic review programs
- Six Service Standards process
- FDA, EPA and NSF/USDA products
- Kosher and Organic products
- 'Hands free' chemical delivery services
- ISO 9001 standards
- Outsourcing management programs
Sustainable Savings
- Lower total cost of operation
- Integration of plant water strategies to reduce environmental loading
- Compliance with all required product and environmental regulations
- Highest quality products in use
- Expert management of water and environmental systems
- Rigorous review process to assure goal attainment in water systems and processes
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Value-Added Services
- Analytical testing
- Equipment consulting
- Operator training certification & certification
- On-site system auditing
- Wastewater bio-mass analysis
- "Hands-free" delivery
Industry Challenges
- Maintaining trained plant operators/personnel
- Managing product quality
- Optimizing seasonally used production/thermal equipment
- Optimizing water storage ponds and lagoons
- Assuring safe chemical delivery
Nalco Solutions
- UNISOLV Water & Energy Audit
- Equipment efficiency audits, including thermal systems and Biomanage®
- Corrosion monitoring programs including SMART PATCH®
- 'Hands free' chemical delivery services
- ISO 9002 certified labs and wastewater biomass analysis (WWBMA)
- Nalco Customer University web-based training
Sustainable Savings
- Lower total cost of operation
- Improved product quality and reduced reject costs
- Improved plant/process systems operation and reduced scheduled maintenance costs
- Improved lagoon and pond efficiencies
- Reduced system variability through improved knowledge
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