Unlock hidden savings with a free audit of wastewater treatment infrastructure.

The challenge of consistent treatment
Breweries and food processors generate unusually strong wastewater that strains treatment systems. Their effluent is rich in sugars, fats and nutrients, yielding biochemical oxygen demand (BOD/COD) often thousands of mg/L – much higher-than-normal municipal sewage.

Similarly, brewery effluent typically has BOD levels several times domestic strength (cleaning chemicals and spent grains add more organics), phosphorus up to ~10× higher than normal, and pH swings from acidic washes to alkaline wort residues. These plants also consume vast amounts of water and energy for heating/cooling and pumping, so any inefficiency is costly. Production schedules (seasonal or batch processes) cause large swings in flow and pollutant load making consistent treatment challenging.

The Audit Advantage: Efficiency, Compliance, Sustainability
A thorough operational audit solves these challenges by uncovering hidden inefficiencies at no upfront cost. Expert auditors review plant data, inspect equipment, and test process streams to pinpoint waste. They might find, for example, excess cleaning water reuse opportunities, pump or heat-recovery shortfalls, or ways to tighten chemical dosing control. One case saw a treatment plant cut ferric‐chloride usage by ~15% simply by stabilizing dosing to match real‑time phosphorus loads. Audits translate raw data into technical and economic recommendations tailored to the plant.

Free audit yields valuable insights into the efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of a facility. Our experts will “identify opportunities to reduce energy and chemical use, improve water reuse, and lower operational costs. By tightening processes and fixing equipment problems, audits lower operating expenses (energy, chemicals, sludge hauling) and enhance reliability. Crucially, auditors verify compliance: they test effluent to ensure treated wastewater meets even stricter local limits. In effect, an audit gives plant managers a clear “action plan” for optimization and future-proofing.

Key Benefits : No-Risk, High-Reward
For operations managers, a free wastewater audit is a no‑risk, high‑reward opportunity. Typical outcomes include:

• Pinpointing inefficiencies in water, energy or chemical use – revealing exactly where the plant is wasting resources.
  Cutting costs by reducing OPEX: audits often show how to trim energy bills (e.g. pump or aeration savings) and chemical dosages.
• Ensuring compliance: expert recommendations align treatment with tightening discharge standards (avoiding fines or permit rejections).
• Boosting sustainability: audits may flag water-reuse, heat-recovery or waste-to-energy projects that recover resources rather than discard them, advancing circular-economy goals. For example, anaerobic digestion of brewery waste can generate biogas and fertilizer, closing the resource loop.
• Gaining expert, objective insight: a third-party auditor brings fresh perspective and experience with similar plants, providing recommendations based on accurate tests specific to your plant.
• No obligation or cost: because the audit is free, any improvements are pure benefit. You gain insights to cut costs, save energy, and future-proof your installation without any commitment.
  In practice, our audited plants often see double-digit percentage gains in efficiency or compliance assurance, easily justifying any follow-on investments.

Unlock hidden savings
Our Waterleau expert operational audit is a simple way for a brewery or food processor to unlock hidden savings, improve compliance and move toward more sustainable, circular operations – all with zero risk.

The audit will analyze actual plant data and processes, then deliver a prioritized plan of improvements. For plant managers facing ever-stricter regulations and cost pressures, that makes a free audit a no‑risk, high‑reward step toward a smarter, future-ready operation.