Starbucks Wastewater Recovery

FSi provided conceptual design and budgetary cost estimates for four different wastewater neutralization systems for the company’s Seattle Extract Plant.

The plant is a manufacturing and research and development facility that produces coffee extract which is added to Dryer’s ice cream and Red Hook beer. The manufacturing plant produces waste water from its clean-in-place (CIP) system which must be recovered and neutralized prior to dumping to the city drain. FSi produced 4 different concepts for handling the waste water via the utilization of the existing containment area, an above ground tank, a below ground tank and an outside tank. For all concepts, the waste water is held and then neutralized by adding appropriate amounts of acid or base as required.