A feasibility study that compares viable treatment routes — weighing performance, capital and operating cost, footprint and risk to recommend the best fit.
Process Consultation — in depth
Before committing capital, a feasibility study tests the options. We shortlist viable treatment trains, model their performance against your discharge target, and compare them on capital cost, operating cost, footprint and risk — giving you a clear, justified recommendation.
What matters in practice
Viable treatment trains for the duty.
Performance, capex, opex, footprint, risk.
Predicted effluent for each option.
A justified preferred route.
| Criterion | Weighting | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Effluent quality | High | Meets consent |
| Capital cost | High | Budget fit |
| Operating cost | Medium | Whole-life |
| Footprint | Medium | Site fit |
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A feasibility study that compares viable treatment routes — weighing performance, capital and operating cost, footprint and risk to recommend the best fit.
Reynolds & Bauhm delivers the early-stage rigour — survey, characterisation, feasibility and estimating — that determines whether a scheme succeeds, giving clients a defensible technical and commercial basis before they commit.
Sound process consultation de-risks a project before capital is committed, working through site survey, effluent characterisation, feasibility study and budget estimating. The sequence exists to replace assumptions with data: what the site can physically accommodate, what the effluent actually contains, which process routes can meet consent, and what each will realistically cost to build and run.
Effluent characterisation is the foundation — a representative sampling and analysis campaign capturing not just averages but the variability, peaks and shock loads a real plant must tolerate. Designing to an average alone produces a works that fails on the bad days; characterising the distribution is what lets the design carry genuine margin where it matters.
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| Parameter | Typical basis | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Risk | Assumption register | Carried forward into design |
| Characterisation | Representative sampling | Captures variability, not just mean |
| Site survey | Access/services/levels | Defines what is buildable |
| Feasibility | Route screening | Narrows to preferred option |
| Estimate | Defined accuracy class | Sound investment basis |
| Operability | Whole-life view | Avoids a plant nobody can run |
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By replacing assumptions with data — characterisation, survey, route screening and costing — so the technical and commercial basis is defensible before capital is committed, when changes are still cheap.
Because designing to an average misses the peaks and shock loads that actually break a plant. Feasibility & Options Study relies on a representative campaign capturing the distribution and variability, so the design carries margin where it is needed.
A screened comparison of candidate process routes against consent, footprint, operability and cost, narrowed to a preferred option with a documented, defensible basis for the decision to invest.
Early estimates are produced to a defined accuracy class appropriate to the information available, and the basis and assumptions are stated, so decision-makers understand the confidence behind the figure rather than treating it as fixed.
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Select the regulatory standard for your country — it sets which parameters we need for a compliance-aware process assessment.
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