GEK two barrel shipping

[jimmason]

this might be too deep of shipping dept geekery, but the latest thing that has all the locals excited is we've reduced the gek shipping to two russian doll packed barrels for a full gek kit. the two barrels in the picture above contain all vessels and all parts for a LEVEL IV gek. (yes, we need to get a second pix with all the contents pulled out in front of each barrel).

but for now just notice the lack of cardboard boxes. all vessels nest within others, then the whole mess goes in the hopper, then the lid goes now. and now all the rest of the parts (plumbing, instruments, gaskets, nuts, bolts, meters, air lines, etc etc etc) all go in the new 16gal drum filter, then on goes the lid. this was another motivation for our moving to the larger filter-- it creates the second shipping vessel. now the whole thing comes as two barrels full of gek.

shipping heavy metal parts in cardboard boxes is often leads to problems. we had lots of broken boxes in early shipments. but having to send freight makes the costs prohibitive and logistically complicated for the recipients. thus we came up with a method to keep this all regular UPS package ship, and have the shipping vessels be metal skinned, though under the 150lb ups limit. the light weight also makes possible overseas shipping without cargo freight. it seems about 1/3 of the geks go overseas, so making it possible to get them there inexpensively is a priority. being able to send an industrial machine to india via ups air freight is a pleasant reversal of roles. we've yet to send one to china, but we're working on it.

the drying bucket and pyrocoil still need a separate box to go in. what else do we need another barrel for so we have a third container for the TOTTI add-ons?

j

[RalphM]

Just a few SWAGs:
Fuel storage, Ash storage, Tumble dryer, Rotary fuel classifier, Cooling water storage. :)

[RalphM]

Jim

I was just going over the BEK diagram again for possible use as wood torrification exeperminatal unit and thought that the third drum could be a product reciever at the end of the takeoff auger.

Ralph

[jimmason]

ralph, yes, that's what we've been thinking about for the bek. the problem is the gek with the pyrocoil and drying bucket (which together = the TOTTI) only need one big barrel. the pyrocoil and drying bucket are still without a motivated container.

the pyrocoil and drying bucket do bolt together and nest inside one another, with all the outside flanges lining up for flat edges, thus they play reasonably nicely with boxes. but still, it would be nice to have a more robust ship barrel for these two that actually had a purpose on the other end.

here's what the russian doll insides of the big barrel look like inside. again, the big barrel becomes the monorator hopper on the user's end. the base is modified with new flanges to provide the condensate trap ring and drain.

j

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