Covey Consulting
Selection of
Covey Consulting Clients
Confidential Clients
- Advice, design and costing of de-inking plant processes, chemicals and plant changes.
- Evaluation of Project Proposals
- Expert witness on patent infringement case(s)
- Expert witness on construction contract case(s)
- Feasibility study on new board machine proposal in SE Asia
Alcoa
- Various environmental projects
Allens, Arthur Robinson - Lawyers
- Expert witness services on largest patent dispute in Australia
Aluminates Pty Ltd (Orica)
- Feasibility and design studies on various chemical manufacturing projects.
- Study of acid mist control.
AMCHEM
- Design of chemical handling plants
Australian Paper - Maryvale
- Documentation of various Major Hazard Facility items
- Improve the operation of the Chlorine Dioxide plant
- Process design and commissioning of new caustic storage and make-down installation
- Process design and commissioning of chlorine gas scrubbing facility
Australian Paper − Shoalhaven
- Commissioning of waste paper plant upgrade.
- Optimisation of waste plant.
- Review of finishing operations.
- Installation of sheeter.
- Project management of initial PM1 Upgrade review.
- Soda recovery plant review.
- Preparation of P&I drawings for whole mill.
- Design and costing for fine screening of deinked pulp
Australian Pulp and Paper Institute
- Lectures on chemical recovery in pulp mills.
- Dynamic simulation of bleach plant chemical dosing and brightness controls
Botanical Resources Australia
- Design procure, install and commision of super-critical heat exchangers
- Design procure, install and commision of solvent-solid extractors
- Design procure, install and commision of liquid-liquid extractors
- Feasibilty studies on new plants
- Design procure, install and commision of heat exchangers and evaporators
- Design procure, install and commision of new clarifier
- Improvements to boiler operation, boiler fuel supply, hot and warm water supplies
- General process optimisation and troubleshooting
Brookfields Lawyers (Auckland)
- Expert witness services on contract dispute
Burnie City Council
- Process review of anaerobic sludge digesters.
- Documentation of test procedures for sewage treatment plants.
- Review of sludge hopper design.
- Optimisation of water treatment plant pH control and manganese removal
Clean Technology Solutions Pty Ltd
- Joint confidential projects
CSIRO Division of Forestry & Forest Products
- Design of experimental paper making facility.
- Provision of specialist analytical chemistry services.
- Provision of pulping services
CSIRO Division of Land & Water
- Feasibility studies and development of chemical manufacturing processes
Fibertech Pty Ltd
- Advice on hardboard dewatering
Freehills/Hansol
- Expert witness advice on contamination of woodchips
Gerling Australia Insurance
- Investigation of a plant incident
Goliath Cement
- Studies on greenhouse gas offsets.
- Introduction of a new source of gypsum.
- Feasibility study (confidential).
Griffith Hack
- Provision of expert witness services on a patent opposition.
GSPP Sdn Bhd
Kimberly-Clark Australia - Millicent
- Digester Blow Gas Scrubbing - Feasibility and pilot plant design.
- Management of installation phase of a converting project.
- Feasibility study and costing of baled pulp handling and slushing plant.
- Engineering services to paper mill, including tissue machine upgrade, water savings and baled pulp handling facility.
- Determination of sources of colour in effluent
Kimberly-Clark Australia - Tantanoola
- Consultant process and mechanical engineers on Tantanoola pulp mill project, including process design of fibre line.
- Commissioning followed by plant optimisation.
- Dynamic modelling of steam system.
- Design, installation and commissioning of pitch extraction project
- Design of pulp dryer
- Cleaner upgrade
- Feasibility studies on plant upgrades
Limahsoon Sdn Bhd
- Confidential Process Evaluation
Malaysian Newsprint Industries
- Audit of Engineering Process
Minter Ellison
- Provision of expert witness services on very large contract dispute
Municipality of Ulverstone
- Test work and preliminary design of clarification system for vegetable processing plant effluent
Nopco Paper Technology Pty. Ltd
Norske Skog (Australasia)
- Optimisation and performance guarantee trials of Stage 2 of RCF plant (Albury)
NSG Expert Opinion Services
- Expert witness services in technical performance dispute
Nystar
- Design of sulphuric acid plant tail gas scrubber system
- Plant project management services
Norris Coates
- Investigation into failure of coating formulations
Oz Minerals
- Investigate performance and design of new NOx scrubber
PaperlinX
Plastic Fabricators (WA) Pty Ltd
- Design of orifice scrubbers
- Design of various items of process equipment
Powdertech
- Design of novel wool scouring plant
SCA
Silcar
Spooner Hall
- Expert witness services on contract dispute
Sugar Research Institute
- Evaluation of novel conversion processes
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
- Consultant on conversion of straw pulp mill to wood, and on fluidized bed chemical recovery (Syria)
University of Melbourne - Department of Chemical Engineering
- Process development and design of a new mineral processing method
University of Tasmania
- Pulp bleaching simulation program
Victorian EPA
- Expert witness services on plant incident
Visy Paper – Reservoir, Tumut
- Optimise operation of waste paper plant
- Energy usage audit
- Design of turpentine storage and loading facility
Waste Furnaces Pty Ltd (NZ)
- Conceptualisation and preliminary design of a system for the recovery of by-product chemicals from a non-tractable waste disposal process
Westox
- Advice on paper machine alterations and project development
Rio Tinto
- Consultant on process development.
- Technical audits of proposed plant designs.
- Several investigations into process refinements.
- Binder evaluation for pelletising