Trapzilla TZ-1826 Grease Interceptor Testing (Full Video)
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Over 40 consecutive hours in February of 2015, Thermaco staff tested a brand new 274-gallon Trapzilla grease interceptor to the ASME A112.14.3 standard to determine its efficiency and capacity. Everyone expected great things from this new Trapzilla, but no one expected just how well it would perform, capturing 1,826 pounds of grease at a 100 gpm flow rate with a maximum average efficiency of 99.3%.
Transcript:
BILL BATTEN: Thermaco dates back to 1983, and we got involved in grease separators in 1985. In many cities' downtown areas they had no room for conventional-type large concrete or metal grease traps to go and they wanted more capacity. And that's when we brought out the Trapzilla.
Since 2006 we have been perfecting the Trapzilla design. Now today's unit that's being evaluated is the pinnacle. We refer to this as our third-generation Trapzilla design. It uses the hallmarks of the horizontal baffle, it's got a number of subtle treatments that we do on the inlet and outlet baffle, and the overall tank design has been optimized to enhance separation and to have as much grease retention and as small a footprint as possible. Today's test is a rather strenuous test in that it's 100 gallons per minute, and it's using 160-degree hot water. And it's 20 pounds of grease, lard, at a time being administered in 200 gallons of water, batch after batch after batch. This is far more strenuous than would be seen in any restaurant.
BRUCE KYLES: What we have here are two stainless steel sinks and they each hold 100 gallons of fluid. We will fill them up with water at 150 to 160 degrees F. After the water fills up the sink, we will also add lard. The lard is also preheated to the same 150 to 160 degrees F as the water, and because this sink partition is in here we will add 10 pounds of grease here, 10 pounds of grease, lard, over here, and drop them in over about a two-minute period of time. A total of 200 gallons dropping in two minutes' time gives us 100 gallons a minute, and that's the flow rate for the unit we're evaluating. During the test anything, all the water and some small amount of grease, passes through the unit and goes into the skim tank. In order to determine what is retained in the unit, we have to determine what is not retained in the unit and that's where skimming comes into play. The lower specific gravity grease rises to the top of the skim tank, and we use a long blade to corral any grease that has risen to the top over to a corner. We use a small pan to remove that material from one end of the tank, pour that material into a separatory funnel where it further separates, we'll get a little bit more water out of it there, and then we pour it into a beaker and weigh it. And that gives us a weight for each drop cycle, a weight of the amount of the grease that goes through the unit. That gives us what it didn't hold and we know what we put in to begin with, so the difference of those two gives you the amount of the material that is held inside the unit.
RANDY BATTEN: Now the weather. We're expecting an enormous amount of snow tonight. We found out there was a winter storm rolling in on Wednesday evening, which we thought about the safety and ability of our employees to get in. Because of that we decided to start testing early on Tuesday evening.
BILL: I plan to be in the building, staying here, finishing the test, and have no idea if I'm gonna get home tomorrow night because the roads may be totally impassable in our town.
RANDY: We've determined that the Trapzilla model we're testing has passed the theoretical limit of a 750-gallon interceptor, which is 1,381 pounds of grease retained. We did it! I think with that last drop, number 76 in this case, we have passed the 1,500-pound mark. Pretty awesome accomplishment.
RANDY: I'm gonna check on the outside, see how the snow's doing. We just had drop 91. It's about 6:35 in the morning. We've been going for almost 40 hours straight of testing. 92 successful drops.
BILL: 92 flat separation curve drops.
RANDY: That's right.
BILL: Average of what, 99?
RANDY: Point three percent cumulative efficiency. I'd say today was a huge success, completely exceeding our expectations.
BILL: It did.
BRUCE: The unit ultimately held 1,826 pounds of grease, which was well beyond my expectation. Well beyond everybody's expectations.
BILL: It's great having a unit that over delivers and gives people in a 250-gallon capacity, literally the equivalent of a 1,000-gallon concrete grease interceptor.
RANDY: We were very proud of what we ended up with.
BRUCE: One of the goals here at Thermaco is to exceed our customers' expectations. We have a product, a product that stores multiple times the industry standard minimum requirement, nine times the standard, plus has efficiency that's up close to just below 100 percent. And really it doesn't get much better than that.
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Over 40 consecutive hours in February of 2015, Thermaco staff tested a brand new 274-gallon Trapzilla grease interceptor to the ASME A112.14.3 standard to determine its efficiency and capacity. Everyone expected great things from this new Trapzilla, but no one expected just how well it would perform, capturing 1,826 pounds of grease at a 100 gpm flow rate with a maximum average efficiency of 99.3%.
Transcript:
BILL BATTEN: Thermaco dates back to 1983, and we got involved in grease separators in 1985. In many cities' downtown areas they had no room for conventional-type large concrete or metal grease traps to go and they wanted more capacity. And that's when we brought out the Trapzilla.
Since 2006 we have been perfecting the Trapzilla design. Now today's unit that's being evaluated is the pinnacle. We refer to this as our third-generation Trapzilla design. It uses the hallmarks of the horizontal baffle, it's got a number of subtle treatments that we do on the inlet and outlet baffle, and the overall tank design has been optimized to enhance separation and to have as much grease retention and as small a footprint as possible. Today's test is a rather strenuous test in that it's 100 gallons per minute, and it's using 160-degree hot water. And it's 20 pounds of grease, lard, at a time being administered in 200 gallons of water, batch after batch after batch. This is far more strenuous than would be seen in any restaurant.
BRUCE KYLES: What we have here are two stainless steel sinks and they each hold 100 gallons of fluid. We will fill them up with water at 150 to 160 degrees F. After the water fills up the sink, we will also add lard. The lard is also preheated to the same 150 to 160 degrees F as the water, and because this sink partition is in here we will add 10 pounds of grease here, 10 pounds of grease, lard, over here, and drop them in over about a two-minute period of time. A total of 200 gallons dropping in two minutes' time gives us 100 gallons a minute, and that's the flow rate for the unit we're evaluating. During the test anything, all the water and some small amount of grease, passes through the unit and goes into the skim tank. In order to determine what is retained in the unit, we have to determine what is not retained in the unit and that's where skimming comes into play. The lower specific gravity grease rises to the top of the skim tank, and we use a long blade to corral any grease that has risen to the top over to a corner. We use a small pan to remove that material from one end of the tank, pour that material into a separatory funnel where it further separates, we'll get a little bit more water out of it there, and then we pour it into a beaker and weigh it. And that gives us a weight for each drop cycle, a weight of the amount of the grease that goes through the unit. That gives us what it didn't hold and we know what we put in to begin with, so the difference of those two gives you the amount of the material that is held inside the unit.
RANDY BATTEN: Now the weather. We're expecting an enormous amount of snow tonight. We found out there was a winter storm rolling in on Wednesday evening, which we thought about the safety and ability of our employees to get in. Because of that we decided to start testing early on Tuesday evening.
BILL: I plan to be in the building, staying here, finishing the test, and have no idea if I'm gonna get home tomorrow night because the roads may be totally impassable in our town.
RANDY: We've determined that the Trapzilla model we're testing has passed the theoretical limit of a 750-gallon interceptor, which is 1,381 pounds of grease retained. We did it! I think with that last drop, number 76 in this case, we have passed the 1,500-pound mark. Pretty awesome accomplishment.
RANDY: I'm gonna check on the outside, see how the snow's doing. We just had drop 91. It's about 6:35 in the morning. We've been going for almost 40 hours straight of testing. 92 successful drops.
BILL: 92 flat separation curve drops.
RANDY: That's right.
BILL: Average of what, 99?
RANDY: Point three percent cumulative efficiency. I'd say today was a huge success, completely exceeding our expectations.
BILL: It did.
BRUCE: The unit ultimately held 1,826 pounds of grease, which was well beyond my expectation. Well beyond everybody's expectations.
BILL: It's great having a unit that over delivers and gives people in a 250-gallon capacity, literally the equivalent of a 1,000-gallon concrete grease interceptor.
RANDY: We were very proud of what we ended up with.
BRUCE: One of the goals here at Thermaco is to exceed our customers' expectations. We have a product, a product that stores multiple times the industry standard minimum requirement, nine times the standard, plus has efficiency that's up close to just below 100 percent. And really it doesn't get much better than that.
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