OilSorb Saves Your Money
Fuel and activated carbon prices got you down? OILSORB keeps profits flowing your way.
The users of granular activated carbon (GAC) for groundwater and wastewater cleanup are experiencing continuing price increases. First there was a drastic price increase due to the U.S. Commerce Department import tariff imposed on Chinese carbon. Secondly, many mines have been closed in China due to safety problems and activators have been closed due to pollution problems. Thirdly, the rise of fuel prices from $2/gallon some 3 years ago to the current price of $4-$5 a gallon, an increase of more than 100%, which is passed onto the GAC user.
Changing out GAC is costly and disruptive to your operations. The cost can be drastically reduced by using OILSorb to protect your GAC against premature fouling by oil.
For example, a system which consumes 10,000 lb of GAC per change-out and the total distance traveled by the service provider is 400 miles. That means the fuel surcharge cost at $5/gallon is $400.
Based on the usual patterns, the carbon is changed-out 7 times a year. Therefore, the yearly costs would be $77,000 for carbon, $2,800 for fuel and $14,000 for labor for an annual cost of $93,800. This is real pain.
Adding OilSorb saves you $62,000 annually.
If the end user wants to lessen their costs they should have the service provider include a tank filled with OILSORB organoclay in front of the carbon. That means one lead adsorber is filled with about 20,000 lb of OILSORB, at a cost of $1.20/lb, not including labor costs and fuel. Pre-treatment with OILSORB, which removes oil from water at 7 times the rate of activated carbon, annual cost for one carbon change out is now $24,000.-, fuel is $400.-, labor cost about $4,000.- (at $0.20/lb) for one change out, for a total of $28,400. If you use GAC alone, the cost is $93,800 per year. Thus by using OILSORB as a pre-polisher, you generate a cost savings of $62,000.
If you use coconut GAC instead of bituminous GAC, the cost savings will be at least $70,000.- per year, because coconut carbon, due to its small pore size, will be fouled even quicker than bituminous carbon.
