### 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" <K avya.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

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication an d any documents, files or pr evious e-mail messages atta ched to it, constitute an e lectronic communication within the scope of the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, 18 USCA 2510. This communication may contain non-public, confidential or leg ally privileged information intended for the sole use of the designated recipient (s). The unlawful inte rception, use or disclosure of su ch information is strictly proh ibited under 18 USCA 2511 and any applicable laws. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this comm unication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail a nd delete all copies of this communication, including attachments, without re ading them or saving them to disk. Thank you.

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 me ssages attached to it, constitute an e lectronic communication within the scope of the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, 18 USCA 2510. This communication may contain non-pu blic, confidential or 

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...legally privileged information intended for the sole use of the designated recipient (s). The unlawful interception, use or dis closure of such information is strictly prohibited under 18 USCA 2511 and any applicable laws. If you ar e not the intended recipient or have received this communicatio n in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this communication, includ ing 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 info rmation and budgetary cost estimates for carbon steel tanks. We have noted that your em ail contains a confidentiality statem ent at the end. Could you please confirm that none of the information discussed or at tached 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

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication and any documents, files or previous e-mail me ssages attached to it, constitute an e lectronic communication within the scope of the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, 18 USCA 2510. This communication may contain non-pu blic, confidential or legally privileged information intended for the sole use of the designated recipient (s). The unlawful interception, use or dis closure of such information is strictly prohibited under 18 USCA 2511 and any applicable laws. If you ar e not the intended recipient or have received this communicatio n in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this communication, includ ing 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 develo pment 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 fo r 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 informat ion that may be useful in developing cost per gallon estimates, that would be great. Partic ularly, any information on break points in cost (e.g., the cost per gallon increases significantly for tanks 500,000 gal in size or gr eater due to special shipping requirements), would be helpful.

Also, do you have any recommendatio ns for vendors who can provide cost s 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 co uld provide would include engineering, drawings, shop fabrication, shipping of pieces to site, receipt and unloa ding of pieces, tank assembly at the site, and painting. Does this also include the connection of th e tanks to the wastewater treatment system? This is not included. Typically our scope of work terminat es 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 a ll pieces of equipment.

Also, any marketing material or brochures detailin g 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 in formation I have provided will be difficult; however, any budgetary information, standard price lists, or costing guidelines would be very help ful. If additional details on the overall system or any other informat ion would be useful, please let me know. 

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...If any of this information is considered confidential business in formation (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 me ssages attached to it, constitute an e lectronic communication within the scope of the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, 18 USCA 2510. This communication may contain non-pu blic, confidential or legally privileged information intended for the sole use of the designated recipient (s). The unlawful interception, use or dis closure of such information is strictly prohibited under 18 USCA 2511 and any applicable laws. If you ar e not the intended recipient or have received this communicatio n in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this communication, includ ing 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 Representativ e 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 a dditional, hopefully quick, qu estion for you. We have decided to pursue estimating costs for carbon st eel equalization and clarifie r tanks. You mentioned yesterday you have worked extensively with power plants and FGD wastewat er. Based on your experience, do you know of common tank vendors for carbon steel tanks for FGD wastewat er treatment or other power plant wastewater applications? We are hoping to contact the tank vendors to obta in 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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