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Loss Prevention and Waste Management from Processing Plants
A new look at an old problem
Author: Rob Dexter, Director, DCM

ABSTRACT

The real cost of product losses to drain on most production facilities is often greatly underestimated by management. As a result, expenditure of time and money to implement an effective loss prevention and management system is correspondingly inadequate. This paper will look at:

the actual cost of losses from several Dairy and Food manufacturers and the methodology and cost required to implement an effective loss prevention strategy.
data representing losses, using various on-line sensing systems, specifically parameters such as Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) used in combination with flow, Suspended Solids (SS) orTurbidity (Turb) and pH.
actual gains achieved through the availability of this data to appropriate plant personnel and the cost/benefit ratio of each system with respect to the products present in the drains.
downstream management options such as diversion control and feedforward management of induced air flotation (IAF) and dissolved air flotation (DAF) systems.