Projects funded by a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Justice P2 program
Segun Samuel Oladipo
Analyzed the reduction of compressed air operating pressure, and focused on saving electricity and other utilities and also saving money through installation of deduct meter.
Projects funded by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2020-21)
Tyler Wehling
Analyzed the current operation and reduce wasteful practices and focused on the compressed air system, water waste, and lighting to reduce waste and utility consumption.
Eric Poggemeyer
Worked on increasing sustainability by reducing water use, natural gas use, and energy consumption on-site and made recommendations to switch to more efficient options which result in cost savings.
Projects funded by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA (2023-24)
Jarod Harris
Analyzed the steam system and made recommendations to eliminate exposure to dangerously hot surfaces, improve boiler efficiency and instrumentation lifespan and cost savings and reduce GHG emissions.
Tanner Turek
Analyzed the production line to find defects becoming solid waste and focused on reducing electricity use, food waste, and downtime through using more energy efficient methods for cooling.
Harrison Smith
Analyzed the plant utility usage and focused on Reduction of refrigeration costs, decrease of future maintenance costs and improving the machinery and reduction of wastes.
Projects funded by a grant from the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy (NDEE)
Ty Fleshman
Analyzed the production process to find the challenges and made recommendations to preserve thermal energy.
Jared Coe
Analyzed waste streams throughout the facility, and focused on reducing natural gas use through source reductions and increasing efficiencies in production lines, and improving the overall safety.
Matt Koenig
Analyzed the production lines and made recommendations to reduce utility use and the amount of organic waste and improve the production efficiency based on using up-to-date technologies and fixing compressed air system.
Projects funded by a grant from Industrial Assessment Center (IAC)
Maria Alvarez
Analyzed solar energy systems and heat exchangers and focused on reducing the amount of electricity usage and electricity demand and their greenhouse gases by switching to more efficient options.
Dariush Jafari
Analyzed solid waste flow to landfill and compressed air systems, and prepared recommendations to prevent heat loss and reduce electricity, water, sewage, and natural gas costs.
Aida Rashidi
Analyzed refrigeration systems and prepared recommendations to reduce the energy consumption and the process GHG emissions.
Connor Herridge
Worked on waste reduction and improvement of energy efficiency and made recommendations to Made recommendations to reduce water usage and utility consumption, reduce wastes tax exemption for utilities.
Zach Paasch
Analyzed brine reclamation system and focused on the improvement of energy efficiency of the assessed processes through using more efficient alternatives and changing the process set points.
Maclean Slavik
Analyzed on-site nitrogen generation compressed air system and focused on contamination prevention and reducing energy usage from an industrial standpoint by suggesting energy efficient systems instead ordinary ones.
Jacob Voigt
Analyzed recycling solid waste and heat energy recovery and made recommendations to reduce energy use and to allow for more precise process control.
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Kaled Gonzalez Montoya
Analyzed cooling, packing and compressed air systems and made recommendations to reduce water, sewage, and natural gas costs.