Comments on: Case Study: The Cost Benefit of Flushless Urinals http://www.triplepundit.com/2005/07/case-study-the-cost-benefit-of-flushless-urinals/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rohnhttp://www.triplepundit.com/2005/07/case-study-the-cost-benefit-of-flushless-urinals/comment-page-1/#comment-64681 Rohn Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:04:47 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2005/07/case-study-the-cost-benefit-of-flushless-urinals/#comment-64681 I am a final year civil engineering students at University of the West Indies (UWI) and I am undertaking a project on no-flush urinals; "the feasibility study into the introduction of no-flush urinal at my campus."I came across some info online which led to you (<a href='http://www.triplepundit.com/members/nick/' rel="nofollow">@Nick</a>) in that you have done a similar project.I am in great need of information as to how you went about with the project. please email me (drshaady@yahoo.com)some information which will guide me. or better yet a draft copy of your report so that I will have some data for comparison especially in my literature review.Thank you. Awaiting to hear from youRegards, Rohn I am a final year civil engineering students at University of the West Indies (UWI) and I am undertaking a project on no-flush urinals; “the feasibility study into the introduction of no-flush urinal at my campus.”

I came across some info online which led to you (@Nick) in that you have done a similar project.

I am in great need of information as to how you went about with the project. please email me (drshaady@yahoo.com)some information which will guide me. or better yet a draft copy of your report so that I will have some data for comparison especially in my literature review.

Thank you.
Awaiting to hear from you

Regards,
Rohn

]]> By: Davehttp://www.triplepundit.com/2005/07/case-study-the-cost-benefit-of-flushless-urinals/comment-page-1/#comment-13242 Dave Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:00:18 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2005/07/case-study-the-cost-benefit-of-flushless-urinals/#comment-13242 I am looking at these units for my facility, but I am also considering low flow urinals instead. The financial savins is actually greater with extreme low flow. Can anyone tell me.....do we need to have these cartridges picked up by a biohazardous waste management company? If so, I'm not sure of the benefit...... thanks. I am looking at these units for my facility, but I am also considering low flow urinals instead. The financial savins is actually greater with extreme low flow. Can anyone tell me…..do we need to have these cartridges picked up by a biohazardous waste management company? If so, I’m not sure of the benefit……
thanks.

]]> By: Rogerhttp://www.triplepundit.com/2005/07/case-study-the-cost-benefit-of-flushless-urinals/comment-page-1/#comment-13241 Roger Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:04:28 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2005/07/case-study-the-cost-benefit-of-flushless-urinals/#comment-13241 What’s everybody smoking? First let’s call it what it really is, it’s not vegetable oil that you mix in your salad! This waterless urinal cartridge contains a Blue “Liquid Chemical Seal” with a specific gravity lighter than water, it floats. It was intended to suppress odor and it works, providing you change it every month or the stench is unbearable. I know because our custodian was dump enough to have six of them installed at our facility. The reason the cartridge needs to be replaced is because in Fluids Dynamics ,fluids don’t compress. When you introduce a continuous stream of urine into a small cartridge, the chemical sealant becomes turbulent and mixes with the urinal while expanding rapidly. It has no place to go but down the drain and eventually collects at the water reclamation center. This is the reason for constantly changing those cartridges, it can get very expensive. The company said the Liquid Chemical Sealant, is Bio-Degradable, it’s a misnomer! It’s only Bio-degradable after a major undertaking to remove it from the holding tanks because it floats. It needs to be physically removed in protective clothing and truck away into approve hazard containers to Bio-degrade. In a major rain fall the water reclamation center can’t process the additional fluids, so the Liquid Chemical Sealant along with other chemicals gets dump into the ocean or our waterways, causing a Dead Zone. The other issue is the plastic cartridge, there marked recyclable. Those used cartridges are pilling up by the hundreds at our land fill, who in the right mind would pick up one of those stinking and bacteria infested cartridge to recycle .10 cents worth of plastic? And you’re telling me this is good for the environment?....Wake up and think again! What’s everybody smoking? First let’s call it what it really is, it’s not vegetable oil that you mix in your salad! This waterless urinal cartridge contains a Blue “Liquid Chemical Seal” with a specific gravity lighter than water, it floats. It was intended to suppress odor and it works, providing you change it every month or the stench is unbearable. I know because our custodian was dump enough to have six of them installed at our facility. The reason the cartridge needs to be replaced is because in Fluids Dynamics ,fluids don’t compress. When you introduce a continuous stream of urine into a small cartridge, the chemical sealant becomes turbulent and mixes with the urinal while expanding rapidly. It has no place to go but down the drain and eventually collects at the water reclamation center.
This is the reason for constantly changing those cartridges, it can get very expensive. The company said the Liquid Chemical Sealant, is Bio-Degradable, it’s a misnomer! It’s only Bio-degradable after a major undertaking to remove it from the holding tanks because it floats. It needs to be physically removed in protective clothing and truck away into approve hazard containers to Bio-degrade. In a major rain fall the water reclamation center can’t process the additional fluids, so the Liquid Chemical Sealant along with other chemicals gets dump into the ocean or our waterways, causing a Dead Zone. The other issue is the plastic cartridge, there marked recyclable. Those used cartridges are pilling up by the hundreds at our land fill, who in the right mind would pick up one of those stinking and bacteria infested cartridge to recycle .10 cents worth of plastic? And you’re telling me this is good for the environment?….Wake up and think again!

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