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Dublin San Ramon Services District
Gravity Belt Thickener Rental
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Available for rent at $4,500/month (half the usual rate)
It is mounted on a 1.7 METER TRAILER (for easy transport)
 
This Gravity Belt Thickener -- model RB 817.3 manufactured by Roediger Pittsburgh, Inc. – is rated to thicken a feed rate of 300 GPM of Raw or Mixed Liquor sludges and has been used for co-thickening, as well. The unit can thicken sludges to a concentration of four to eight percent. The unit comes with a Roediger model No. L-2 polymer system. Discharge sludge thickness is determined by adjustment of sludge feed, belt speed, and polymer dosage.

The unit contains a 55-gallon stainless steel cake hopper, a progressive cavity discharge pump with a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) to vary speed

The Unit has the following features:
- In line venture mixer
- 100 gallon stainless steel flocculation tank
- Belt gravity zone has an area of 76 square feet
- 14 rows of individually adjustable plows
- Pneumatically adjusted belt tensioning
- Pneumatically adjusted belt tracking
- Automatic belt washing, with a wash water booster pump
- Polyester monofilament wovenware belt with 316 SS seams
- VFD Thickener Drive with AC motor


The unit is mounted on a DOT approved 42‘ x 8.5’ trailer. The unit can be easily transported via highways to facilities anywhere in the continental United States and has been leased to treatment plants as far away as Indiana.

Utility requirements:
Electrical 460 volt, 3 phase, 60 Hz is standard, 2.0 Horsepower Drive units
Washwater @ 85psi (min.)
Pneumatics (instrument air) 1 cfm at 80 psi min, 250 psi max

 
Sample Lease Agreement Terms
 

The unit is currently leased out until November 2008.

For more information, please contact:
Levi Fuller, Operations Supervisor
(925) 875-2300 or fuller@dsrsd.com


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