Codue offers consultant services dedicated to investment plans improving energy efficiency in the industrial processes. The activities carried out by Codue are as follows:

a. Feasibility Study for energy saving projects using standard or consumptive models;
b. Verification of possible incentives (Energy Efficiency or Emission Trading Certificates) or tax facilitation.
c. Basic Engineering and all necessary to permit the plant construction or its revamping;
d. Construction Engineering;
e. Support to erection and plant startup;
f. Preparation of any necessary to carry out the verification and certification of savings in order to grant the relative incentives or tax facilitations;
g. Energy management related to the project

Energy Audit
EU has established that large companies with high energy consumption are required to carry out the Energy Audit every four years, The Audit take into account mainly the results of the energy efficiency actions carried out in the previous four years.
Energy Audit is one of the key components for energy efficiency and sustainability management.
Codue supports Clients to understand how energy is used and which interventions can be applied to their factories in order to be compliant the Best Practices. It means to evaluate not only the technical feasibility but also the economic and financial results so that they achieve the typical budget targets for industrial entities.

Environmental Audit
The Environmental Audit is a dedicated consultant service to provide objective evidences for the compliance to internal procedure and laws due to certain production process activities or conditions. Possible targets of an Environmental Audit are:
a. establishing compliance with a standard (ISO 14001 or EMAS);
b. improving compliance with applicable laws;
c. pursuing continuous improvement of environmental performance;
d. identifying potential problems;
e. establishing whether the Management System Environmental EMS adopted is correctly implemented and respected.

Codue proposes some different steps according to the following:

• Partial audits requested by Clients itself to verify the implementation status and effectiveness of its EMS and its processes;
• Second-party audits performed by Clients against its Suppliers, both preliminary (pre-contractual), and during the execution of the supply (post-contractual);
• Third party audits performed by an "independent third party" and aimed at verifying compliance with the specification requirements.

A periodic audit allows to minimize the risks, to provide guarantees to the stakeholders (shareholders, employees, management, customers) defining intervention priorities for achieving compliance

Aministrative Audit
Audit on administrative issues for industry is an important activity that analyzes the legal obligations for energy and the environment. By crossing the data resulting from the Energy and Environmental audits, Codue can detect any risks or criticalities between the plant operation and regulatory requirements, especially regarding the powergen, CO2 emissions and waste disposal.
The administrative Audit is a preventive activity to establish the feasibility for future investments in the factory.

Codue provide Energy and Environmental engineering developing innovative solutions so that its Clients can better way of producing goods in a more eco-sustainable way. The first target of the Codue engineer, is addressed mainly to the analysis of primary energy conversion methods considering the plant needs and its management. It also will verify alternative energy sources in order to mitigate the environmental impact of powergen plant while still having energy savings as focus.

Some energy and environmental engineering activities carried out by Codue are:

• Equipment or plants census through a CCMS software platform
• Analysis and verification of plant performance (Footprint and KPI analysis)
• Technical / financial feasibility studies for selected energy efficency project
• Detailed and construction engineering
• Advisor for procurement, installation and plant commission

Codue provide administrative consultant for powergen plant from fossil or renewable sources improving the mix between it.
Typical activities tof our offer are as follows:

• SEU Simple Production and Consumption Systems
• CHP(Cogeneration High Efficiency )
• Other coordinated management activities

Codue is the best engineering partner for repowering the powergen plants of its Clients. Codue can apply a "Tailor Made" solution in according to the operating needs based on a virtual model. A more efficient energy production is provided finding an economic use to any energy excess produced.

Examples of systems on which Codue exercises this type of consultant services are as follows:
• CHP cogeneration plants with turbine or endothermic engines
• CCPP Combined Cycle Power Plant
• Biogas or Biomethane plants
• Photovoltaic power plant

The regulatory obligations related to Italian Industry 4.0 and energy efficiency laws, require that industrial energy consumers to equip its factories with digital infrastructures in order to monitoring all data deriving from production, distribution and use of energy.
The main target of this requirement is to respond to the real-time factory energy need taking the opportunity to centralize into database automatically all raw data and relevant analysis.

The Codue services for this application area are as follows:
a) Audit of the existent monitoring chains and all series of digital data available compliant with laws or official guidelines.
b) Feasibility Study to integrate the existing digital architectures to possible expansions or complete revamping with certified IT solutions. The solutions will be IoT (Internet of Things) oriented.
c) Software and Hardware Engineering
d) Procurement support.

Codue can propose a monitoring software platform in pay for use mode capable to gather data analyzing its for each type of application. This platform is able to provide customer support in terms of decisions and / or fulfilments regarding energy and environment management. The service is based on a modern and scalable platform for real time monitoring of production, distribution and related consumption of electricity and heat within industrial processes.

A good recycling of industrial scraps and waste reduces the consumption of raw material from nature improving the environmental footprint of the factories. Considering some innovative solutions, outputs of an industrial process could become its input or for another close factory.

Codue is able to carry out tailored feasibility studies for waste or water recycling in order to close loop cycle.
Codue knowledge concerns the valorization of waste materials. It is a key topic for the manufacturing industries in order to exploit these new solutions for self-consumption energy production as electricity, heat or bio-methane.
Codue is able to design small scale solutions using what it is waste in the factory (energy, waste, water, etc.).
Another key topic concerns the decrease in volumes or the total closure of the waste cycle. for which the plants require technological solutions to mainly reduce the economic and operational risk of disposal.
Codue is able to study dedicated solutions for the volume reduction sewage sludge, wastewater and solid materials. These solutions take into consideration the energy need in order to optimize the economical investment and related ROI.

The Effluent section is the key utility in an industrial factory in order to be compliance with environment and waste laws. The wastewater together sludge treatment are the two main components of Effluent.
Here Codue focalizes its analysis in order to improve energy efficiency, water reuse, sludge energy recovery decreasing the disposal volume of factory waste.

All-one solution applied Effluent plant, could solve four efficiency problem in the factory.

Codue, through its engineer’s team, can propose improving interventions on Effluent in order to grant more efficiency in the wastewater process. We are also committed to closing the waste cycle (Closed Loop Recycling) with water recovery solutions or with plant for renewable energy production using all sludge deriving from the purification process.

Faced of 2030 horizon imposed by the EU laws, factories will be incentivized to decrease their CO2 emissions through revamping of their plants with new low-impact solutions or optimizing mainly their powergen plants.

Starting immediately on this virtuous path, means being forward-looking in limiting energy costs in a medium-long term scenario.

Codue is able to support Clients to better manage this environmental transition through 360 ° consultancy services as the ETS Emission Trading Management or feasibility studies in order to reduce the emission quotas authorized for its plants.