Unique Global Guzzler
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• Global Environmental Services, a Widnes, Lancs-based Yorkshire Water offshoot, has invested £300,000 in a USmade, mobile vacuum/pressure pumping station to join its fleet of Scanias.
The pump is built by Guzzler of Birmingham, Alabama on a Perkins Eagle 325TX-engined Foden 4350 8x4 chassis which was shipped to the States just for the conversion. It is the only one of its kind in Europe.
The XCR high velocity plant uses a Roots Dresser blower driven from a Dana 792 transfer box to draw waste products such as liquids, powders, solids or sludges from as deep as 55m (180ft). It can clear such material from over 300m away boil
zontally through 200mm diameter hoses.
Manual or timed automatic control over two hydraulic slidegate valves allows the vehicle to vacuum and off-load at the same time.
For recovery operations, elevating cyclones can be used to a height of 2.44m, allowing the plant to bag, drum or off-load the waste into adjacent skips.
The cyclone discharge connection is fitted with a manifold into which material particles are gravity fed then moved to the reclaim vessel/container by the blower discharge airstream, Up to 800 tonnes a day can be reclaimed on a single shift using the rear 12m3 tipping tank.
Loading booms with powered rotation and extension, closed loop catalyst handling systems and axle and tailgate-mounted auger off loading systems are among the options.
The rest of Global's fleet takes care of all types of waste including acids, petroleum products and coal.
To reduce costs Guzzler wants to team up with a UK bodybuilder and build the equipment on to rigids or semi-trailers on this side of the Atlantic.