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Clean By Design's Top 10 Best Practices

Published: 29 June 2019
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The cornerstone of Clean by Design (CbD) is a set of 10 Best Practices that when implemented in any production facility can deliver almost immediate return on investment – most projects pay for themselves in less than one year.

Clean by Design’s top 10 practices

  • Metering & leak detection
  • Cooling water reuse
  • Recover heat from hot water
  • Maintain heat traps and systems
  • Recover heat from exhaust gas and heating oil
  • Improve boiler efficiency
  • Improve insulation
  • Condensate collection & recovery
  • Optimize Compressed Air
  • Process & Wastewater reuse

These foundational elements of resource management represent the beginning and ongoing steps all wet processing mills can adopt for optimal efficiency and they pave the way for more sophisticated projects when the facility is ready.  Clean by Design and expert partners use a CbD Efficiency Scan to evaluate each mill based on their improvement potential beginning with the 10 Best Practices and then allocate them to programming suited for their level of performance.