Food and beverage process engineering & design

No matter what product you’re bringing to market, every food and beverage project comes with the same challenges: maintaining product quality and safety during the manufacturing process and optimizing efficiency and reducing waste while adapting to rapidly changing consumer demands and market trends.

At Dennis Group, our foundational expertise is in food and beverage process engineering. Our process team—fully one-third of our technical staff—are experts in designing hygienic, efficient, and innovative processes utilizing the right equipment and automation levels to successfully deliver your project.

Expertise

Design process systems, including mass and energy balances, and identification of critical process control points
Select sanitary design standard tailored to the project requirements and regulatory compliance
Developed equipment specifications and recommend qualified vendors
Design support systems not provided by equipment manufacturers
Integrate unit operations to ensure seamless coordination across disciplines

process design

Building your project on a process design foundation

Sample Projects

Walmart

600,000 SF

Sabra Dipping Co.

240,000 SF

Confidential RTE/RTC Meal Client

145,000 SF

Process Engineering Expertise

Food and beverage process design expertise

With a sole focus on food and beverage, since 1987, we’ve worked with every major unit operation in the industry, including:

Raw material receiving and storage (bulk, liquids, refrigerated)
Ingredient conveyance (silos, tanks, dry and liquid handling systems)
Blending and batching systems
Mixing and emulsification
Pasteurization and thermal processing
Fermentation and culturing
Evaporation and concentration
Extrusion or forming
Drying
Separation
Homogenization
Product cooling, chilling, and freezing
Filling, packaging and material handling

Sanitation and process support system expertise

Clean-in-place (CIP) and sanitize-in-place (SIP) system design
Allergen control
Hygienic zoning
Tie-ins for sanitary utility systems
Sanitary design finishes ling

Preston Pond

Junior Partner and Process Lead

Preston, who leads Dennis Group’s process engineering group, has been with Dennis Group for more than two decades and has worked with a wide variety of process systems. His particular expertise lies in dairy process design and he offers extensive experience with a variety of products including yogurt and ice cream.

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Tom Walker / 3 min read

Defining Mass Balance

Mass balance—the production and usage rates of ingredients throughout a system—is key to every project. Dennis Group process engineer Tom Walker breaks down what mass balance is and how it affects every part of a food and beverage project.