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The port of Rizhao in Lanshan is a large bulk cargo port in the Chinese province of Shandong. It is located in the Yellow Sea, halfway between Rizhao and Lianyungang and next to Haizhou Bay. Day after day, countless trucks distribute the cargo arriving here all over China. Due to the bulk materials stored on the port area, the wheels and chassis of the vehicles are often heavily soiled, which in the past led to a constant pollution of the public roads around the port.

FRUTIGER was recently commissioned to deliver the ninth wheel washing system MobyDick for a well-known German group of companies based in the German county of Oberallgäu. The newest installation is a MobyDick ONE with a length of 10 meters which ensures three full revolutions of a truck tyre. The water recycling concept is based on four settling tanks and a total of 200m3 water. This makes it possible to wash several hundred trucks with heavy to very heavy soiling every day.

As market leader and specialist for customized MobyDick wheel and coarse dirt washing systems FRUTIGER has received an inquiry from an important nickel mine in New Caledonia some months ago. The high requirements of the customer for the cleaning result and functionality of this not everyday system, were thereby a special challenge for the FRUTIGER engineers. Since strong winds and typhoons often occur at the place of operation, the plant is built to withstand wind forces of up to 250 km/h. Despite the unusual design and a site on the other side of the world, the washing system could be installed and commissioned within a few days and has been doing its job reliably ever since.

A conventional MobyDick wheel washing system has a passage width of 2.80 meters. This means that all trucks approved for the public roads can pass through the installation without any restrictions. In certain situations, it is however advantageous to be able to wash larger vehicles such as wheel loaders, dumpers or special vehicles on the wheel washer. In these cases, FRUTIGER offers different models as well in wider versions. The photo shows a MobyDick ConLine KIT wheel washing system with a passage width of 3.20 which was recently installed for a leading waste disposal company in the region of Westfalen (Germany). The wheel wash line MobyDick ONE even allows passage widths of up to 5.40 metres and the system can also be driven over by tracked vehicles.

For his new recycling plant in Great Britain the owner, a well-known waste management company, recently acquired a MobyDick KIT Plus 800B-50P wheel washing system. The procurement was preceded by a detailed analysis of different products and suppliers on the market. Due to the leading technology, the high quality and the excellent price / performance ratio, the decision was ultimately made in favor of FRUTIGER. In the past days, the system
has been installed and handed over to the satisfied customer.

For the construction of the BMW test track in Sokolov, Czech Republic, which is currently one of the largest construction projects in the entire Czech Republic, a solution for keeping the public streets clean was evaluated by the responsible construction company last year.
The decision was made in favour of two new MobyDick wheel washing systems ConLine KIT Flex 600C-50P from FRUTIGER Company AG. The modern systems, each with a length of 6 metres and a recycling tank with 50m3 water volume, were recently installed and will now wash up to 250 vehicles daily for the next 3 years. With this solution, the accumulated dirt in the recycling tanks is discharged fully automatically by sludge scraper conveyors.

Rapid Earthworks in Wellington replaced a dysfunctional truck wheel wash system and chose a MobyDick ConLine KIT Flex 400 as the new replacement while working on the Kenepuru Landing development.
The immediate advantages of the MobyDick system:

Recently another wheel washing system MobyDick ONE with a length of 7.20 meters was handed over to a german customer near Ulm. The modern installation has a drastically improved washing performance compared to conventional wheel wash installations. The flow-optimised geometry of the washing modules, developed in cooperation with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), enables an extraordinary high number of washing nozzles. The track profiles and nozzle position have also been optimised, which means that now even tracked vehicles can use the system. As an option two special nozzles (Powerflush) are used, which rinse the mudguards of the trucks reliably with up to 2500l per minute.

The water recycling concept is a central element for a well-functioning wheel washing system. If faults occur here, they can usually only be rectified at great expense. For this reason the water recycling of all MobyDick systems is adjusted to the respective operating conditions (dirt, truck traffic, space conditions) together with the customer. For the realization there is a large selection of different sized recycling tanks available, which can be emptied by excavator or wheel loader. The MobyDick recycling tanks can be interconnected and are also available with scraper conveyors.