Airflow Management Audit
Save Up to 25% on Air Handling Energy Costs in Your Food Processing Plant
Is Your Air Handling System Consuming Too Much?
In industrial bakeries and food processing plants, air handling represents a major portion of energy costs, yet most installations overconsume. A specialized energy audit identifies these inefficiencies and unlocks immediate savings.
Warning Signs Your Facility Needs an Audit
Your air handling system requires evaluation if you observe:
Unexplained Temperature Fluctuations
Proofing, cooling, or packaging zones show variations of ±3°C. These fluctuations compromise product consistency and increase quality rejections.
Cross-contamination between production areas
Uncontrolled air flows carry airborne contaminants from one area to another. This cross-contamination compromises the food safety of your products and increases the risk of recalls.
Rapid, recurrent icing of equipment
Your evaporators, freezing tunnels or cooling spirals are icing up too quickly. Excessive icing reduces thermal efficiency and increases the number of defrost stops.
Excessive humidity and condensation in production
You notice condensation on walls, ceilings or equipment during production or washing. This excessive humidity creates favorable conditions for microbial contamination.
Rising Energy Bills
Your ventilation, cooling, and freezing costs increase year over year. Without adjustments, aging systems can consume significantly more than necessary.
Equipment Undersized for Current Volumes
Your processes have evolved, but your installations haven’t. Air handling units (AHUs) sized 10 years ago no longer meet today’s needs.
Poorly balanced ventilation units
Are your air handling units (AHUs) running at full capacity all the time? This is often a sign of over-sizing, inadequate air balance and major energy wastage.
Our audit method: 5-step C3P process for measurable gains
Step 1: Identifying objectives and issues
Virtual meeting with your teams to precisely define your priority issues: product quality, energy, hygiene, compliance. We analyze your schematics, drawings, PIDs and existing technical documentation to prepare for field intervention. This stage enables us to assess the equipment concerned and plan the work periods for production and washing phases.
Step 2: On-site kick-off meeting
- Meeting with your teams to validate the audit process, contacts, access and security rules.
- In-depth knowledge of your site and exchanges with all project stakeholders to ensure a smooth and safe operation.
Stage 3: Complete airflow mapping and measurement campaign
We map your entire plant by analyzing the direction of air flows throughout the site, in production and in the washing phase. Our technicians assess the overpressure and underpressure of premises according to their risk levels, as well as the aeraulic balance of fresh and extracted air flows.
We measure each critical point:
- Relevés des soufflages, reprises, air neuf et extractions HVAC et processus de production
- Débits d’air et pressions statiques différentielles
- Températures et gradients d’hygrométrie
- Cycles de fonctionnement et relevés de fréquence des équipements
- Points de condensation et identification des contaminations aéroportées
- Hygienic condition of air handling systems (AHUs, filters, coils)
Initial diagnostic findings can be passed on to your teams immediately, thanks to rapid debriefing.
Step 4: Energy analysis and complete report
Nous croisons les données de vos systèmes CTA, serpentins de chauffage, groupes frigorifiques et extracteurs. Cette analyse révèle les postes de surconsommation cachés et quantifie les surcoûts d’exploitation actuels.
A detailed report will be sent to you within 2 to 3 weeks and will include the following elements:
- Air flow mapping diagram
- Air flow balances and aeraulic balance
- Assessment of existing facilities and their state of hygiene
- Estimated additional operating costs and potential savings
- Advice on improvements and prioritized technical recommendations
- Calculation of return on investment for each action
Step 5: Strategic feedback meeting and master plan.
Oral presentation of the report with in-depth comments and discussions. This meeting enables us to co-construct a master plan adapted to your operational and budgetary priorities. We transform technical data into a concrete action plan that can be implemented immediately.
Guaranteed Results: Improved Quality, Reduced Costs
Our clients see tangible gains within the first months:
- Significant energy savings: Reduce your air-handling bill. Adjustments to flow rate, pressure and operating cycles generate typical savings of up to 25%, depending on the installation.
- Stabilized environmental control: controlled temperatures and humidity in all sensitive areas. Fewer variations = fewer rejects = consistent quality.
- Enhanced hygiene and elimination of contamination: Air flows optimized according to risk levels in each zone. Drastic reduction in airborne contamination and unwanted heat transfer between workshops. Enhanced sanitary compliance.
- Longer equipment life: A balanced system reduces premature component wear. Preventive maintenance targeted on the real critical points. Reduced rapid icing and defrost cycles.
- Improved working conditions: Less condensation, excessive humidity and temperature variations for your production and washing teams.
And after the audit? From analysis to implementation
We provide full support in implementing our recommendations.
Project management service
Our project management team carries out the priority actions identified during the audit. You benefit from a local contact who knows your facility and the issues at stake. From audit to implementation, a single partner.
Continuous improvement approach
We monitor and optimize your installations over time. We measure results, make adjustments and provide ongoing support to ensure that the gains you’ve made will last.
Why Choose Us for Your Audit?
30 Years of Quebec Expertise, 50 Years of Technological Innovation
We combine three decades of Quebec and Canadian market experience with 50 years of technological expertise. We understand the specific constraints of industrial bakeries and food processing plant: high production rates, strict hygiene, product quality. Our approach integrates all these parameters.
Dual Technical and Metrology Expertise
Our engineers combine thermodynamic analysis with field measurements. This dual expertise guarantees immediately actionable recommendations.
End-to-End Support
We don’t just deliver a report. We support you through implementation and monitoring. Performance indicators adapted to your industrial priorities.
Take action: book your audit now
A global audit of your air flows is the first step towards a more efficient, more competitive plant. Discover the optimization opportunities available to your site. Investing in a specialized audit means investing in the long-term viability of your production facilities.