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1. Kyle Fick

   

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   2/21/2013 2:02 PM

   I'm working on a project to take the water supply that feeds our sulfur burner off the main line Z-pipe and give the burner its own dedicated recirculating pump. Doing this for a number of reasons, but mostly to save on the vertical turbines starting and stopping throughout the day as the constant flow through the burner bleeds pressure off, and our PM pump simply isn't keeping up, and won't. And to have a better ability to monitor the water use from our pump station per season.
   
   What are the rest of you who have a Sulfur Burner in place doing. I had a pressure reducing valve in place on our inlet to limit the pressure to around 35 PSI so I could then regulate the burner's pressure and volume to what I understand is the best working condition. With the plumbing being 3" on our unit, I've requested pricing on a 3" pump. I'm thinking about this more, and without literature necessarily on out Burner itself, and the fact that Aqua SO2 isn't around anymore, I'm maybe making a mistake on the amount of water I need to be providing this unit. I really don't want to make a mistake and over size the pump for this scenario, and then have so much pressure building, that we have to plumb in a gate valve to bleed off relief.
   
   Any thoughts and suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks.

   
   
   
   
2. Garrett Schultz

   

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   2/22/2013 10:02 AM

   Kyle- We have a different set up here at Prairie West, but maybe this will help you.
   
   We run a Sweetwater SSG-10 sulfur burner. Our sulfur burner is located directly outside of our pump house, and feeds directly into our irrigation holding pond. We use the wet well in the pump house as the water source for the sulfur burner. A Sta-Rite self priming centrifugal pump (3 hp) with a 3" intake and a 2" discharge is hard wired to a breaker box in the pump house. The pump is made to run continuously and is constantly pumping water from the wet well to supply the sulfur burner. There is simply a hole cut in the skid above the wet well that a 3" pipe with a strainer on it sits in the wet well, and the pump itself is bolted to the skid. The pump is sized to put out 35-40 psi continuously, and we have a gauge on it as well to monitor it. Then we just cut a hole in the bottom of the pump house wall and piped the water supply out to the sulfur burner. Works pretty well for us.
   
   Let me know if there's anything I can help you with.
   
   gschultz@mandanparks.com

   
   
   
   
3. Michael Rogers

   

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   2/24/2013 11:02 PM

   Kyle & Garrett,
   
   How do you decide how much sulfur to burn? Is it based upon expected irrigation usage for the day? An acid injection system will treat the flow of water to the desired pH. A sulfur burner treats a smaller quanitity of water to an extremely low pH and then you mix it with either your wet well or irrigation lake.
   
   Please tell me what is your doing strategy.
   
   Thanks Michael

   
   
   
   
4. Kyle Fick

   

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   2/25/2013 8:02 AM

   Basically, I run my sulfur burner non stop. Our original water source comes out of a nearby river which we draw our 2 holding lakes full from early in the year (now!). That water is allowed to sit before use to hopefully allow the suspended solids to settle to the bottom of the lake. Hopefully some of the poorer water quality settles as well. As we start to irrigate during the season, we then transfer water from these ponds into our smaller "wet well" lake. As the water transfers, that is also where the acidification takes place. Daily monitoring and wetter periods of the year when irrigation usage is lowered, we can catch up. Peak season replacing up to 650,000+ gallons of water, we just simply hope to keep up. On average, we burn up to 5 bags of sulfur a day, and our pond is able to be maintained near a 7.

   
   
   
   
5. Garrett Schultz

   

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   2/26/2013 8:02 AM

   Our sulfur burner basically runs non-stop as well. Our water source (a well) is pumped into our irrigation holding pond, and like you said the sulfur burner puts out water at a pH level of 3.0 to mix into our holding pond. We burn 2-3 bags a day, and monitor the pH level from the irrigation pond, the wet well, from the sulfur burner itself, and most importantly the point that matters, from the sprinkler heads. Over time its just been adjusted and by running the 2-3 bags a day we're able to keep the levels close to where we want them.