On-Site ‘Electrocoagulation’ Treatment Helps Rental Operator Recycle Powerwash Water 02/06/2008
For Don Ahern, who owns the largest independent rental chain in North America, keeping his fleet of machines looking clean and green is a daily part of the family business. But the grungy process of powerwashing construction equipment, such as dozers that can collect as much as 500 lb of dirt while working in the field, is not always friendly to shop workers and local wastewater treatment systems.
“I’ve been playing with this my entire life,” says the president of Las Vegas-based Ahern Rentals Inc. He is developing his own self-cleaning powerwashing system for Ahern’s rental yards, and he plans to sell the units to other fleet owners later this year. “You wash it like a dish,” explains Ahern, who also is tinkering with a fully-automatic wash bay.