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Capstone: Audit a Food Factory
A full, staged energy audit of a fictional chilled ready-meals factory: scope it, walk the lines, build the production-and-weather model, and rank what you find.
35 min read · Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead
Everything in this course comes together here. Ashdown Foods: a 12,000 tonne/year chilled ready-meals factory, with cooking lines, a blast-chilling hall, an ammonia refrigeration plant, nightly washdown and CIP, a packaging hall and chilled despatch, has never had a proper energy audit. A retail customer is asking for a carbon-reduction plan, and you're running the audit behind it, stage by stage, exactly as a real engagement would unfold.