Current or Recently Finished Projects
This year MnTAP supported 17 projects in locations around the state. The projects were at different companies and in a variety of industries. Selected projects are listed below and have detailed descriptions linked in PDF format.
2017 Intern Projects
- Smith Foundry, Minneapolis: Improve air quality through process optimization
- SkyWater Technology Foundry, Bloomington: Optimize energy efficiency of air handling systems
- Seneca Foods, Rochester: Reduce product loss and improve water and chemical use efficiency
- Plastech Corp, Rush City: Waste and energy reduction in a plastic injection molding operation
- Phillips Community, Minneapolis: Improving air quality at small businesses by encouraging the adoption of products and processes that eliminate hazardous air pollutants and reduce emissions of volatile organ compounds
- Phillip's Distilling, Princeton: Energy and water conservation in a distillery
- Minneapolis Water Treatment & Distribution Services, Columbia Heights: Optimize chemical treatment process to reduce chemical use and improve discharge water quality
- Kerry Ingredients and Flavours, Rochester: Improve energy and chemical use efficiency
- Fulton Brewery, Minneapolis: Reduce waste and wastewater at a craft brewery
- Electric Machinery, Minneapolis: Water reduction at a large motor manufacturer
- Diasorin Inc, Stillwater: Optimize water use in medical diagnostic devices manufacturing
- City of New Prague Wastewater Treatment Facility, New Prague: Optimize wastewater treatment processes
- Certain Teed Roofing, Shakopee: Increase production rates, reduce water use and optimize evaporative cooling process in shingle manufacturing
- Center for Energy and the Environment: Twin Cities: Increase energy efficiency at small industrial facilities
- Bailey Nurseries, Cottage Grove: Water conservation in plant production
- Aqseptence, New Brighton: Reduce water use in sheet metal fabrication processes
- Advanced Extrusion, Rogers: Reduce energy and waste in plastic extrusion operations