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. Each of the concepts are similar in that waste water is held and then neutralized by adding appropriate amounts of acid or base as required.