United Rentals Introduces Solids Removal Solution from Waste Streams
United Rentals introduced the CL-250 Clarifier, which delivers a complete solids removal solution for a wide range of waste streams. The clarifier system allows companies to increase efficiency of solid waste removal while also reducing the mobilization time and project footprint of water treatment processes.
The CL-250 Clarifier is designed to be easily deployed in an open top frac tank, allowing the tank to quickly function as a low cost, highly effective solids removal system. The system’s slant plate Lamella clarifier design creates 10 times more settling area than its footprint. This efficient design allows one 16.5-foot CL-250 mobile unit to provide the same treatment capacity as a 42-foot fixed installation clarifier.
The CL-250 Clarifier can accommodate flows up to 500 gallons-per-minute per unit, so there is no need to rent the multiple settling tanks that projects typically require. Fewer pieces of equipment onsite can lead to a more streamlined process and overall safer project.
The CL-250 Clarifier can also be used in a standard weir tank. United Rentals filtration application engineers are available to work with companies to determine settling and flow rates for different sludge types ahead of installation. Once the system is installed, the water enters the clarifier, flows over the first weir, under the second weir and then up through the slant plates within the clarifier system. CL-250 Clarifier units are outfitted with sludge removal inserts to allow sludge to be pumped out without interruption to the process.
The United Rentals CL-250 Clarifier has the versatility to be effective across a variety of worksites and high-volume projects including refineries, chemical plants, construction dewatering, environmental remediation and pipelines.
“The CL-250 Clarifier is an integrated, custom-designed liquid management system,” said Mehrzad Emanuel, director of filtration at United Rentals. “Companies are looking for cost-effective and time-sensitive ways to keep projects – and fluids – moving. The CL-250 Clarifier can not only save project dollars but keep downtime to a minimum. Fewer pieces of equipment onsite and faster turnarounds free up capital for other projects or contingencies.”
United Rentals, the largest equipment rental company in the world, has an integrated network of 1,164 rental locations in North America and 11 in Europe. In North America, the company operates in 49 states and every Canadian province. Based in Stamford, Conn., United Rentals is No. 1 on the RER 100.
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Michael Roth
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.