John,
That is GREAT!! that you have a working knowledge in this industry because of your previous environmental consultant business.
The throughput stats of the BioRaptor are as follow. Perhaps we
can dissect these and compare them to some other systems that are
available. Operator time is money and it would seem prudent to
assume that the higher the throughput rate (or an ability of a system to remediate soil) the better.
<<"Verified throughput of the BioRaptor is a function of the process equipment and its control. The process has a maximum operational rated throughput (e.g. our 150 Ton/Hour unit is its maximum possible throughput if run full-throttle, continuously without consideration of soil conditions, site characteristics, treatment concentrations, or equipment operations; a reasonable % less that 100%, as with any rated piece of mechanical equipment...boilers, chillers, engines, etc. is expected). Our process takes the soil, moves it to the treatment bar, treats it with the proper amount of blend, and deposits it according to its contaminant analysis (the contaminant levels are determined by an independent lab and we retest only to verify individual samples for concentration levels, our blend selection, and in-progress testing for final project completion approval).
While the BioRaptor Process equipment is available in a wide variety of throughput ratings from 10-25TPH to custom units over 150TPH, for
instance, a -600TPH can be made available as a custom ordered unit, the competitior, the thermal desorption application operators seem to hover in the 16-20TPH range, a very wide reduction of throughput...."
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John I am not sure I understand exactly what "unit" the above Bioraptor system/equipment TPH is referring to. When they state;
"from 10-25TPH to custom units over 150TPH, for instance, a -600TPH..." ...are they always discussing "TPH" as being Tons Per
Hour of soil only?
If that is the case then we are dealing with; a cubic foot of soil
weighing (X) * 27 = for a cubic yard equivalent. Can you give me an idea what an average moist cubic yard of soil might weigh compared to a dryer cubic yard of soil? In other words the absorption and holding
characteristics of various soils (ie., loam, clay, semi-aggregated, etc. would effect the TPH rating of "all systems" accordingly wouldn't it?
Do you have any idea what is the initial purchase cost of these average 10-20 TPH range machines are, and what the average hourly
cost is to run them? I am trying to get a feel for how cost effective it would be to run a larger TPH as opposed to several smaller ones.
Do you have any idea what type of downtime can occur? Ie., broken belts, hydraulics, etc. Is that a large determining factor of one
unit over another?
Thanks for any help in this area. BUGS moved up nicely yesterday on some decent volume. Hasn't seen hardly any volume today. The markets in general are taking a break today after the big move yesterday.
Frank
PS: How did you like my idea on the '06 conversion to a .35 Whelen? |
