Dean Taylor
Dean Taylor, CATEC.com
In both PC & D and Modern Car Care magazines, The Auto Bell article boasts that they are recycling 100% of their water. It goes on to say that they only use 80% of the recycled water. This in itself makes it an 80% reclaim system, correct? (The real number is probably closer to 70% but we all know how reclaim companies lie....)
To acheive a 100% closed loop, the reclaim system must produce "rinse quality water" for final rinse as well as feeding the spot free rinse (RO) system. A BIO (bacterial) system as well as most other systems on the market are not capable of doing this.
To be completely honest, there is no such thing as a 100%, zero discharge reclaim system in a car wash. At some time, water must be discharged from the wash by means of overflow to sewer, septic or pumped and hauled from the site.
I think it's important to clarify this (no pun indended). Sugar-coating may look good on paper to gain zoning, permitting and community approval, but it's not reality.
To acheive a 100% closed loop, the reclaim system must produce "rinse quality water" for final rinse as well as feeding the spot free rinse (RO) system. A BIO (bacterial) system as well as most other systems on the market are not capable of doing this.
To be completely honest, there is no such thing as a 100%, zero discharge reclaim system in a car wash. At some time, water must be discharged from the wash by means of overflow to sewer, septic or pumped and hauled from the site.
I think it's important to clarify this (no pun indended). Sugar-coating may look good on paper to gain zoning, permitting and community approval, but it's not reality.
