Water Towers and Hydrogen Peroxide

[marine_clean]

Does anyone here have any experience with Hydrogen Peroxide? I'm bidding on a job to do a water tower in a rural water district and the best thing for the presoak is a 35% Hydrogen Peroxide Solution to burn up all the organics on the walls. When I first got out of college I worked for a company cleaning them but w/out pressure.. just a chemcial reaction...so I have quite a bi of experience working with water towers...


A company called Floran- if you ever get a job inside a water treatment facility, check these guys out. Chemicals are expensive, yes, but the pay is bettter. I saw a job last year bid out at $330,000 to do a5 water towers in the district. Larger citites have contracted over $1,000,000 to have their filters and indoor storage facilities cleaned..cleaned... I just thought I would throw this out and see if anyone else is trying to tackle this market...



By the way, I strayed from my original peroxide thread... The reason I was asking if anyone had used it is because it works amazingly well and foams up the second it hits ANY organic or dirt and foams it away.. but it will, i repeat WILLLLLLLL burn the holy hell out of you .. rubber suits are required to use the stuff...


it will leave a little white burn on you because it eats all the oil out of the skin on your fingers and leaves a burn that looks like a wart... you can;'t wash it off by that point either!


so has anyone used peroxide for cleaning fleet vehicles or pools or anything else?

 

[marine_clean]

Before

 

[marine_clean]

sorry, before!

 

[marine_clean]

During... you can see all the chemical being applied and how its running down..its applied with a low pressure pump.. and a wand..

I'm not advertising for this company by the way... I;m sure that almost any chemicals would work...nut they have to be NSF cretified for use in a water treatment facility or use just hot high pressure...


this job took about 2 days but it paid around $25000.. their only other option is to have the tanks sandblasted and painted.. EASILY over $75k to do that!

 

[marine_clean]

After..now the plant doesn;'t have to use so much chlorine in their water.. saves them money.. because the chlorine residual drops constantly with dirty walls.. because the chlorine is being used up by the organics on the walls.. so they are having to add more chlorine to make up for it.. and all those chlorine by-products are showing up in the system and the THM levels are raising causing taste and odor in the citys water... .....the THM;s are the deadly carcinogenic by products that are left over after chlorine is dissipated.....easy job to sell..VERY EASY...

 

[oneness]

Wow! That's one clean tank, and that's a hell of a lot of money!

When I lived in Texas, I knew a guy who worked blasting/painting tanks...THAT is a nasty job, and not something I envied him doing.

 

[Pwr Cln of Am]

Interesting post.. Whata clean tank..

Where does that runoff go?

roy

 

[marine_clean]

The runoff is pumped off the floor with about 5 or 6 sump pumps hosed out onto the grass outside. The chemical that is used is only dangerous before you add the catalyst to it and spray it. Once it hits the wall, its used up and has negative enviro. effects. Now, the waste from the walls is dangerous and its also pumped out onto the ground and it WILL kill the grass but the state says its no different than regular pressure washing since the stuff on the walls is the stuff in our drinking water.. took about 3 weeks for the grass to turn green again..

glad to see there is some interest in this, i've got a tone of photos if anyone is interested in seeing more results..



Cale

 

[marine_clean]

Heres a few more pictures for those of you that took an interest...

most water plant operators have never even been IN their tanks of holding facilities..

when you make them climb the tower and have them look in and they see the scum, its a pretty easy sale!

 

[marine_clean]

The first pictures is the BEFORE picture of a filter.. Those stains are from a chemcical thats put in our drinking water called Pottasium Permangenate..You can scrub on it all day and hit it with 10,000 psi and it wont budge..spray some of thisc cheemical on, use a brush to push the chemcial around a bit and voila..melts like butter.. then you spray!




this is DURING...

 

[marine_clean]

this is what a filter SSHOULD look like...



AFTER!

 

[paul-uk]

Originally posted by marine_clean
The first pictures is the BEFORE picture of a filter.. Those stains are from a chemcical thats put in our drinking water called Pottasium Permangenate..You can scrub on it all day and hit it with 10,000 psi and it wont budge..spray some of thisc cheemical on, use a brush to push the chemcial around a bit and voila..melts like butter.. then you spray!

cale... what a difference was the chemical you used on the filter Hydrogen Peroxide...... must go and look at the floran site.thanks for sparking a interest.

cheers paul.

 

[marine_clean]

The chemical we used and hydrogen peroxide are two different chemicals.. I wish it was just h202 but its sooooo cheap compared to the chemical we used.. they are based out of germany...



cale

 

[AquaKleen]

I used to clean jet fuel tanks (JP-3 - JP-5). Remove residual fuel and sell. Pressure wash. Remove rinsate with vac truck. 2-days. 3 man crew. Level B. Gas free tank. $5,500.00. Municipalities paying $25,000.00 to clean tank?????????????

 

[Dan S]

Great Pic's Cale...........

That looks better then doing a roof or deck .............