LOL, No its not soap this time...although now you mention it.
Its for biodiesel!! fat bergs are are huge problem blocking sewers in uk for example...
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/enormous-fatberg-length-two-buses-4571824
that one isnt as big as the 14ton one in Glasgow on Boxing day two years ago.
Might as well tell you part of it because the clever it i can leave out. At the moment when they small enough (size of a car) they blast with high pressure water to breake up, but that just unblocks the sewer, it then goes to the waste plant and knackers the pumps up. They are from fats poured from restaurants etc down the drains.
But they contain wet wipes and 'other' products women sling down the loo. So plan one is to reduce whats puts down the sink in the first place, this will be trialed in a few months (my idea
). Now how do you deal with fat bergs the size of a jumbo jet (see article above), without letting it get to the pumping station?
Currently 6 man teams go down for 2-6 days have blast away with shovels and water jets, until some kid playing ball on the beach had an idea. Think two industrial sized beach balls, gas cylinder, place first ball a bit upstream from berg. Inflate so it blocks sewer except for around 10 inches from the bottom of the pipe.
Now go downstream of the berg and do the same thing past the berg. Now one the cleaver bits. dont use high pressure water, use high pressure steam and melt it! all the no fat comes away and flows under the beach ball and away. the fat floats and is liquid for 20 mins if you use hot enough steam.
the really clever part is the pump design that sits on the sewer pipe while you do it and pumps the clean liquid fat fat into a tanker. Its been tried Monday and they removed 1/2 ton fat in just over 15 mins with no damage at the pumping station!
No wet wipes in the fat or other things as the steam hits at around 210c and 1200 psi.
I thought i had mentioned the safety course??? but anyway, they checking if i have to be 18 or if 27 is ok, i will undergo all safety training and the method is under full NDA with my mum so they cant use it without my permission
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the pumping station end that gets other fats in the pumps I have a different method, I can do that without much training as its pretty safe. I dont have a work ethic, i have a mum and sister that need a roof over there heads, i love where we live and that takes money, so ethics is kind of secondary. I just try and make some money when i can.
The balls use air and as long as you dont sit them on the pipe floor then as the fat unblocks everything flows away except the fat because that sits above the water and stays between the balls to be pumped out.
now its been mentioned and seeing how clean the fat is (relatively speaking), i might have a go at soap. i make alot of soap.....