De-watering truck

[Hunnydipper]

Help:( I am needing to know that is the proper name for a truck that will take the water out of the grease and compacts the grease in the truck and pumpes the water back into the grease trap? :confused: I hope someone can help me Thanks for your time

[Jim]

The Juggler.

[COLE_Jeff]

I believe Newtech's truck also operates by a similar concept. For more information check out http://www.aboutnewtechinc.com/

[Stephen]

I purchased a dewatering unit that was truck mounted and was suppose to be a mobile dewaterer. It almost put me out of business. The thing cost me $200,000 and it just sits and collects dust. You cannot just drive away after you process a trap. Even if your first trap processes perfect. The next trap will have to drain through the first one which will require you to sit and wait. If you don't wait long enough and you drive away, it will slosh all over and trash your screens, then nothing will drain through it, and you'll be stuck with a sloppy mess and nowhere to dispose of it. At best mobile dewatering units should be called mobile water reducing units.

You will be better off setting up a processing facility where you can offload your jobs into a storage tank and then process it through which ever technology you decide on. I use the Aqua Zyme dewatering system and have been successfully dewatering straight grease trap waste for over three years.

My advice is, that when looking through all the different technologies, keep it simple! Stay away from all the computers and moving parts. All you really need is polymer and gravity.

If your dead set on a mobile dewatering unit, I got one I used for less than a year, I'll sell you for $60,000. That's $140,000 less than I paid for the piece of crap!

Good luck, and remember a manufacturers claims may be based on what they've been able to achieve under perfect conditions or even a laboratory. Make them show you it perform on real jobs. If they claim it will do 5, 10. or 15 jobs before you have to dump, make them show you. Don't let them show you it work on one job and think that's how it is. It's not hard for them to cherry pick a job they know processes good every time for their demo job.

Good luck!!!

[Hunnydipper]

Thanks for all of the help
:)

[ecofriendly]

Stephen is dead right, dewatering and separation are two very different things.

No matter what you get involved in, make sure you do your homework,
- make sure the company you deal with has been in the business for years and has a vested interest in your success.
- check on their credentials, are they respected in other fields other than pumper or septic handling, do you deal direct or through a maze of representatives?
- do they take quality and consistency seriously.. members of associations, part of major certification entities (ISO, NSF, University groups etc...)?
- what does their after sales/service team look like? talk to current owners of units, making sure you compare the unit/model you want to buy to what the person you speak to is using.. (new technology moves fast)
- make sure the unit you invest in can be "legally" used in your area
- demo-demo - demo... you pick the demos and work with the manufacturer to determine the products limits... a good manufacturer will be up front with this and welcome a "bad demo" along with the good... each product has limits, being comfortable with them helps all parties win...!
- visit the plant and the team that will put your unit together.. a major investment of this type is well worth the cost of a road trip (any serious manufacturer will help share these costs since he is probably as interested in your ability to use his technology as you are)
- have a close look at your company also, if new technology (truck or not) will required a customer base expansion... can your staff meet the extra demand... computers... scheduling ... staff ... land ... parking... etc...

Jeff mentioned Newteck at http://www.aboutnewtechinc.com/
and
Jim mentioned Juggler at www.labriegroup.com

Both are good North American companies, one manufactures a "dewatering truck with screens etc" and the other a solid/liquid separation unit.

Both are worlds apart as far as the process they employ.. the best for the job is your call -

Note... I agree with Stephen, a stationary "dewatering" system with polymers is hard to beat if you want to pass a filter test.... selective site separation is another animal...

There are also several EU manufacturers... hope this was of some help...