5 services found
Peter L LaMontagne PE Services
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The Centrifuge Guy Used Equipment
I wish WEF would set up a used equipment exchange for the water and wastewater industry, but they have not. As I travel around the country, I see a lot of equipment sitting idle, often viewed by the owners as a liability, rather than the asset it could be. I"m interested in brokering this equipment. We can often find a centrifuge to match what you have, for 25% of the price of a new one. Look on the WEF website for a paper we gave at WEFTEC 2007, about ...
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Consulting
Centrifuges are difficult to specify, because so much is nearly unknowable to the average engineer. Quality resides in the mechanical design, the bearings, the hard surfacing, and the process efficiency. For the most part, all manufacturers have access to the same components, so profit goes to he who builds the cheapest. And the technical data the vendors release? It"s typically is sales fluff. I can take you through the centrifuge specifications, and ...
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Expert Witness
Occasionally, despite all attempts to avoid a dispute sinking into a law suit, you think you might be facing one. You will need good, nationally recognized people, who are articulate and experienced. I have been an expert witness in two lawsuits, one of which actually went to trial! As it happens, in both cases, my client was satisfied with the outcome. My years of teaching all levels of persons how centrifuges work, comes in handy when the audience ...
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Optimization
Optimization is very site specific. By clicking either link below, you can see a sample of the results from an optimization. Optimization goes well beyond the centrifuge performance. The typical plant is able to recoup my fee in savings with in a few months. The following is actual data, and is typical of an optimization report. I have deleted the site name to protect the owner"s privacy. It has often amazed me how long a plant will suffer poor ...
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Training
The cost of sludge concentration and disposal is one of the largest items in a plant’s Operating Budget. Reducing costs is not as simple as limiting polymer to 20 lb./ton. You have to know if adding $5 more polymer will save you $6 in disposal cost. How do you get more out of the centrifuge? Is the Polymer system OK? And when that’s done, how to balance the costs? This course, Cost Effective Centrifugation will change the way you think about ...