Development of Chemical Precipitation Purchased Equipment Costs – Tanks and Clarifiers

The following documents provided by a vendor support EPA’s development of purchased equipment

cost equations for tanks and clarifiers by providing information and specifications for carbon steel tanks

used in the Steam Electric cost model.
RE: Question about carbon steel tanks 

From: "Fred Ruinen" <fruinen@FisherTank.com> 

To: "Kavya Kasturi" <Kavya.Kasturi@erg.com> 

Date: Thursday - October 11, 2012 6:01 PM 

Subject: RE: Question about carbon steel tanks

Attachments: Mime.822 

Kavya,

Information discussed is not confidential.

Thanks,

Fred Ruinen, Corporate Sales Manager

Fisher Tank Company

104 Fisher Tank Drive, Leesville, SC 29070

Office: 803.359.4173 x2713 | Direct: 803.520.2713 | Fax: 803.957.3375 | Cell: 803.351.9677

fruinen@FisherTank.com www.FisherTank.com

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Fred Ruinen, Corporate Sales Manager

Fisher Tank Company

104 Fisher Tank Drive, Leesville, SC 29070

Office: 803.359.4173 x2713 | Direct: 803.520.2713 | Fax: 803.957.3376 

fruinen@FisherTank.com www.FisherTank.com

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sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this communication, including attachments, without reading them or saving them to disk. Thank 

you.

From: Kavya Kasturi [mailto:Kavya.Kasturi@erg.com] 

Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 9:37 AM 

To: Fred Ruinen 

Subject: RE: Question about carbon steel tanks

Hi Fred, 

Thank you again for your help last year providing information and budgetary cost estimates for carbon steel 

tanks. We have noted that your email contains a confidentiality statement at the end. Could you please 

confirm that none of the information discussed or attached was confidential business information (CBI)? 

Thanks, 

Kavya

Kavya P. Kasturi, Environmental Engineer 

Eastern Research Group, Inc. 

Phone: (240) 654-2524 

kavya.kasturi@erg.com

>>> "Fred Ruinen" 06/24/11 2:28 PM >>>

Kavya,

See below

Thanks,

Fred Ruinen, Corporate Sales Manager

Fisher Tank Company

104 Fisher Tank Drive, Leesville, SC 29070

Office: 803.359.4173 x2713 | Direct: 803.520.2713 | Fax: 803.957.3376 

fruinen@FisherTank.com www.FisherTank.com

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sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this communication, including attachments, without reading them or saving them to disk. Thank 

you.

From: Kavya Kasturi [mailto:Kavya.Kasturi@erg.com] 

Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 1:58 PM 

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To: Fred Ruinen 

Subject: RE: Question about carbon steel tanks

Hi Fred,

Thanks again for taking the time to talk to me yesterday. Just to reiterate, I work for Eastern Research Group. 

We are a contractor to the USEPA supporting the development of effluent limitation guidelines for the steam 

electric power industry. We are working on conceptual level costing of a chemical precipitation wastewater 

treatment system to treat FGD (flue gas desulfurization) wastewater from steam electric power plants across 

the country. As a part of this project, we are trying to collect cost information on different components of a 

chemical precipitation system.

We are hoping you can provide us with cost estimates for carbon steel tanks to serve as equalization tanks and 

clarifier tanks. We expect the range of tank sizes to be between approximately 2,000 gallons and 1.5 million 

gallons. I understand that Fisher Tanks only provides field-erected tanks starting at approximately 30,000 

gallons in size. Could you provide us with cost estimates for the five tank sizes listed below? Yes we can. We 

will start working on this and get back to you.

• 30,000 gal

• 100,000 gal

• 250,000 gal

• 750,000 gal

• 1,500,000 gal

Our intent is to create a cost curve using the estimates to interpolate the cost of the tank(s) needed for each 

plant. If you have any rules of thumb or other information that may be useful in developing cost per gallon 

estimates, that would be great. Particularly, any information on break points in cost (e.g., the cost per gallon 

increases significantly for tanks 500,000 gal in size or greater due to special shipping requirements), would be 

helpful.

Also, do you have any recommendations for vendors who can provide costs for carbon steel shop-erected 

tanks (from 2,000-30,000 gal in size) for FGD wastewater treatment?>>>The following contacts may be able 

to help:

Vince Petrucci (Bendel) 704/596-5112 petrucci@bendelcorp.com

Robert Brown (Modern Welding) 706/722-2411 rbrown@modweldco.com

Yesterday you indicated that the cost estimates you could provide would include engineering, drawings, shop 

fabrication, shipping of pieces to site, receipt and unloading of pieces, tank assembly at the site, and painting. 

Does this also include the connection of the tanks to the wastewater treatment system? This is not included. 

Typically our scope of work terminates at the flange of the tank. Are there any other installation costs that are 

typically not included? No. Also, if the waste treatment tank has a rake mechanism, this is typically done by 

another contractor. 

In regards to shipping, we are assuming a shipping distance of 500 miles for all pieces of equipment. 

Also, any marketing material or brochures detailing equipment specifications and listing any ancillary 

equipment included would be very helpful We don’t have anything specific to waste water treatment tanks but 

attached is our brochure and 2 power related flyers.

I understand that providing detailed costs based on the information I have provided will be difficult; however, 

any budgetary information, standard price lists, or costing guidelines would be very helpful. If additional details 

on the overall system or any other information would be useful, please let me know.

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If any of this information is considered confidential business information (CBI), do not send a written response 

via e-mail. Instead, please call me directly to discuss the details.

Please let me know if it would be possible to provide these costs by next Thursday, June 30. We should be 

able to get this done.

Thank you in advance for all of your work in preparing these costs. Again, please do not hesitate to call (240-

654-2524) or email me with any questions. I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,

Kavya

Kavya P. Kasturi, Environmental Engineer

Eastern Research Group, Inc.

Phone: (240) 654-2524

kavya.kasturi@erg.com

>>> "Fred Ruinen" <fruinen@FisherTank.com> 6/22/2011 1:56 PM >>>

Kavya,

It was nice to talk with you about the FGD Waste Water tanks that you are working on. Let us know if you have 

any other questions and when you are ready, we would be more than happy to provide you with budgetary cost 

estimates.

Thanks,

Fred Ruinen, Corporate Sales Manager

Fisher Tank Company

104 Fisher Tank Drive, Leesville, SC 29070

Office: 803.359.4173 x2713 | Direct: 803.520.2713 | Fax: 803.957.3376 

fruinen@FisherTank.com www.FisherTank.com

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication and any documents, files or previous e-mail messages attached to it, constitute an electronic 

communication within the scope of the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, 18 USCA 2510. This communication may contain non-public, confidential or 

legally privileged information intended for the sole use of the designated recipient (s). The unlawful interception, use or disclosure of such information is strictly 

prohibited under 18 USCA 2511 and any applicable laws. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this communication in error, please notify the 

sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this communication, including attachments, without reading them or saving them to disk. Thank 

you.

From: Anderson, Dan [mailto:danderson@tnemec.com] 

Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 7:48 AM 

To: Kavya Kasturi 

Cc: Paul Windham; Fred Ruinen 

Subject: RE: Question about carbon steel tanks

Kavya,

I have a great firm for you.  You could contact:

Fisher Tank Company

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Mr. Paul Windham (803) 520‐2711 or pwindham@fishertank.com

Mr. Fred Ruinen (803) 520‐2713 or fruinen@fishertank.com

Good luck!

Dan Anderson | Coating Consultant

TSE, Inc.

Independent Representative of Tnemec Company

Tel: (803) 622-4708 | Fax: (803) 736-4152

101 Rice Bent Way, Unit #5 | Columbia, SC 29229

danderson@tnemec.com | www.tnemec.com/tse

From: Kavya Kasturi [mailto:Kavya.Kasturi@erg.com] 

Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 1:31 PM 

To: Anderson, Dan 

Subject: Question about carbon steel tanks

Hi Dan,

Thanks again for your help yesterday. I have one additional, hopefully quick, question for you. We have 

decided to pursue estimating costs for carbon steel equalization and clarifier tanks. You mentioned 

yesterday you have worked extensively with power plants and FGD wastewater. Based on your experience, do 

you know of common tank vendors for carbon steel tanks for FGD wastewater treatment or other power plant 

wastewater applications? We are hoping to contact the tank vendors to obtain tank cost estimates.

Thanks,

Kavya

Kavya P. Kasturi, Environmental Engineer

Eastern Research Group, Inc.

Phone: (240) 654-2524

kavya.kasturi@erg.com

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