If the piping goes up and down mountainous terrain be careful of pulling a vacuum on the piping. Column separation of the water in the pipe could. The vacuum will collapse the pipe. The solution is to introduce vacuum relief valves
A suggested weekly or bi weekly backwash is too long a period of time between backwashes. In a municipal potable water treatment facility the decision to backwash any filter will be based on three criteria. They are terminal headloss, service time between backwashes and turbidity whichever...
If the motor is 75 kw and the actual running load is 68 kw and the motor is 90% efficient ,,,, the reject heat from the motor is 6.8 kw (10% of 68). The rest of the energy is going into driving your equipment.
What is the mechanical equipment actually doing? Is it some sort of conveyor system?
If the discharge piping has victaulic couplings or something similar the internal liquid pressure will cause the piping to push against the pump and move the pump. That in turn will cause misalignment between the pump and motor and will cause vibration issues.
When using victaulic couplings...
HCL off gassing will cause immediate corrosion. This would have caused severe corrosion. Sodium hypochlorite leaks and off gassing will corrode equipment metallic surfaces over time when the atmosphere is moist. You will see white powder on galvanized conduit, and blue green powder on copper...
I do not know the layout of your plant but trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole sometimes makes people think about really weird solutions. You get twisted in a knot. And then when it does not work all the logic you used to convince yourself back then about why it would work all of...
I hear you about the fuel cell analogy. The oil/gas/plastics industry would partially fund the work and apply for more grants from the EPA (or the USDOE etc). In order to get grants from the EPA you basically have to have a US company be the front man. The oil/gas/plastics industry have a lot...
Dave, please go away. You are so annoying. Get a life. I have to go back through my emails to find the correct name of the organization that I spoke to AND I am certainly not going to do it for you.
I understand the obstacle regarding the optics of "burnt" plastics. Plastics have a bad image. I am betting on changing the image by making char. It does not even look like a plastic anymore. That is why I want to get EPA funding and Plastics Industry Funding.
EPA has the funding money for the research (Same for the Department of Energy and the plastics industry). They set the laws and rules. If the EPA says don't dump plastic then the states and municipalities have to follow the law. Municipalities won't spend money to stop dumping of plastic if it...
