Officials at a wastewater utility in Louisiana recently faced a sludge disposal problem and knew they couldn’t afford to pay for 5,000-gallon tankers to haul it to a land application site. 

But by using dewatering equipment by Bright Technologies, the utility was able to make a stackable, dry solids cake that allows it to haul 30,000 gallons worth of sludge in a single 30-cubic-yard container.

Since roll-off trucks are less expensive and more fuel-efficient than semi tankers, each load costs less than a single tanker would have otherwise.

One of the key equipment features the utility praised is the sludge-retention manifold of looping pipes, which gives the polymer contact time and gentle mixing before it’s introduced to the press. This is a unique feature to Bright Technologies skid-mounted belt press systems.

Bright Technologies, a division of Sebright Products, Inc., manufactures high-quality recycling equipment as well as equipment for dewatering and solidification of wet materials. The company also offers integrated recycling and solids waste-disposal solutions through Sebright Products including hydraulic compactors, cart dumpers and custom waste carts.

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