Dredging Abrasive Materials? Learn about SRS Crisafulli’s New Dredge

The Rotomite-6000-C, SRS Crisafulli’s newest self-propelled dredge, broadens the Rotomite-6000’s capabilities to include removal of highly abrasive materials. The Rotomite-6000-C also increases the customer’s return on investment (ROI) by cutting sludge management costs, increasing user productivity, and enhancing the unit’s maneuverability for the removal of toxic and non-toxic solids.

The new design offers capabilities that will benefit industrial companies, including; chemical companies, food processing plants, domestic and international construction and contracting companies, oil, mining and refining companies, petrochemical plants and refiners, and coal fired utility companies. Municipalities, County, Regional and Federal agencies, as well as lake associations, and landfill operators, will be able to use the Rotomite-6000-C in many applications. In addition, the Rotomite-6000-C helps companies comply with domestic and foreign mandates by ensuring manufacturing by-products are contained safely in order to prevent contamination of drinking water.

This versatile, self-propelled design is a horizontal auger, hydraulic dredge that can work in odd-shaped areas where a cable dredge unit cannot go. It can remove, pump and discharge dredged solids in water/solids slurries through a floating discharge pipe to disposal sites up to 5,000 feet away, or more when a booster pump is used.

The Rotomite-6000-C is 40 feet long by 9.5 feet wide, and is easily transported by truck.  Its 255-horse power motor and new propulsion system provide increased production and propulsion thrust. It will dredge most soft or abrasive materials, including alum and lime sludges, bentonite, biosolids, bottom ash, clay, coal fines, fly ash, gypsum, mine tailings and slimes, mill scale, mud, pigmentation sediments, industrial and municipal wastes, pulp and paper residuals, peat, oil API sludge, sediments silt and sand.

Capabilities include:

• Dredging depth of 23 feet standard (up to 30 feet optional)
• Up to 235 cubic yards of sludge solids produced hourly
• A discharge volume of up to 3,400 gallons per minute @ 180’ TDH (water)
• A dredging speed of up to 25 feet per minute
• A dredging cut up to 8.5 feet wide
• A cutterhead torque of 11,500 inch/lbs.
• A draft of 30 inches

The self-propulsion feature provides increased maneuverability, more forward and reverse speeds and a 72-horse power hydraulic motor that powers a propeller system capable of 2,500 pounds of force. SRS Crisafulli’s exclusive Cobra cutterhead, which provides 11,000 inch-pounds of digging torque and up to 235 cubic yards of sludge solids per hour, increases productivity. The hydraulic ladder results in enhanced downward force by providing 30,000 pounds of down pressure to dig into the settled solids materials more aggressively thereby increasing cutting capacity. An improved cab design provides operator safety and convenience features, including air conditioning and heating.