Easy antifreeze ideas
Easy antifreeze ideas
(OP)
I am utilizing (8) 7500 gal water tanks to ballast barges during the erection of steel on a bridge project. With the coming of winter in Wisconsin we now have concern with the water in the ballast tanks freezing up. The tanks need to be clear of ice since the water is drained as the barges take load from the erected steel.
Are there any easy solutions out there to keep these tanks from freezing up? Since I am working from barges, electricity is only available from generators and that would require fueling after hours to keep them running through out the night. Some options that I am exploring:
(1) Water heaters used for cattle feed tanks
(2) Biodegradable antifreeze
(3) Water aeration
(4) Propane fueled construction heaters ducted into the tanks
Is there anything that I am leaving out? Thanks!
Are there any easy solutions out there to keep these tanks from freezing up? Since I am working from barges, electricity is only available from generators and that would require fueling after hours to keep them running through out the night. Some options that I am exploring:
(1) Water heaters used for cattle feed tanks
(2) Biodegradable antifreeze
(3) Water aeration
(4) Propane fueled construction heaters ducted into the tanks
Is there anything that I am leaving out? Thanks!





RE: Easy antifreeze ideas
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RE: Easy antifreeze ideas
RE: Easy antifreeze ideas
Rick Kitson MBA P.Eng
Construction Project Management
From conception to completion
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RE: Easy antifreeze ideas
1. If I understand you correctly, you discharge some of the water from the tanks. I would bet that using anything other than water from the stream you are in would have to be OK'd by either the WDNR or the Corps of Engineers. Point source pollution?
2. The Corps of Engineers uses barges nearly year round, they might have some suggestions on environmentally friendly anti-freeze agents.
RE: Easy antifreeze ideas
RE: Easy antifreeze ideas
Contact a bolted galvanised steel water tank supplier.
Zambo
RE: Easy antifreeze ideas
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