Pumped down, pressed on your pad, and cleaned by hand from the inside. Mobilizing from Somerset, Pennsylvania to treatment plants nationwide.
Grit settles on the floor, rags wrap around draft tubes and mixers, and scum and struvite build on the walls. Every foot of that material is volume you built and paid for that is no longer doing any digesting.
The symptoms show up downstream first. Detention time drops, volatile solids reduction slips, gas production falls off, and mixing gets less effective. By the time an operator sees it in the numbers, the buildup has usually been growing for years.
Mobile Solids Solutions cleans anaerobic digesters end to end, with our own equipment and our own crews. We pump the vessel down, dewater the contents on your site, and then send certified crews inside to clean the floor, walls, and internal structures by hand.
Level drops. Whatever the hose cannot lift stays where it is.
Full pump-down into our mixing tanks, on our pumps and our schedule.
Grit banked on the floor and rag wrapped on the draft tubes are untouched.
Slurry. Water you already treated, hauled at volume.
Comes around sooner — the leftovers seed the next accumulation.
We stage the equipment, run gas monitoring on the vessel, and test air quality. Nothing connects until the readings are clean.
Contents move into our mixing tanks on our pumps and our schedule. There is no rental to wait on.
Polymer is added so the solids separate from the water and the press has something to work with.
Our mobile belt press pulls water out on site. What leaves the plant is cake, not slurry.
Once the vessel is empty and the atmosphere is cleared, certified crews enter and clean grit, rag and scale by hand. This is the step most contractors subcontract or skip.
Solids are hauled and disposed of in sealed roll-offs, equipment comes off the pad, and the site goes back the way we found it.
A digester is a permit-required confined space under OSHA 29 CFR 1910.146. It can hold hydrogen sulfide, methane, and oxygen-deficient air long after it has been drawn down. Entry takes atmospheric monitoring, ventilation, an attendant, and a rescue plan every time.
Our crews are OSHA 10 certified and work year-round. We plan entry with your operator before the job is scheduled, not on the morning we arrive. Once inside, the crew works the places that decide how long the vessel stays clean: the floor where grit banks, the draft tubes where rag wraps, and the walls where scale builds.
Digester contents are mostly water. Hauling them wet means paying to truck water you already treated, then paying again by the ton to dispose of it.
We bring our mobile belt press to your pad and dewater before anything leaves. The water returns to your process and the solids leave as cake in sealed containers. That means fewer loads out the gate and a disposal invoice based on what is actually waste.
Mixing tanks and polymer feed, the mobile belt press, pumps and fittings sized for full drawdown, crane and roll-off trucks, sealed containers, and our own generators. We run on power we brought, so there is no tie-in to your plant service and no waiting on an electrician.
Owning the equipment is what lets us commit to a date. There is no third-party dispatcher between you and the job.
Most digester cleanouts are scheduled months ahead and budgeted as capital or maintenance work. A plant running one digester needs more planning than one running two, because solids handling has to go somewhere while the vessel is down. We walk through that with your operator and your consulting engineer before anything is booked.
We will send equipment dimensions, staging and access requirements, process detail, and references with no sales call attached. Our 0.78 EMR sits under the common 1.0 bid threshold, and our office can supply insurance certificates, W-9s, and bid documents.
Our yard is in Somerset, Pennsylvania, and our equipment travels on our own trucks. We regularly work for municipal authorities and boroughs across Pennsylvania, from Pittsburgh and Johnstown to Harrisburg and Philadelphia, and throughout Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, and New York.
We have completed jobs in 19 states, from Minneapolis to Miami and Houston to the New Hampshire line. Distance changes the schedule, not the scope. See where we work.
It depends on grit removal upstream, mixing, and loading. Many municipal plants clean every 5 to 10 years. Falling gas production, reduced volatile solids destruction, or a shrinking working volume are signs it is due.
We enter it. After pump-down and atmospheric testing, certified crews clean the floor, walls, and internal structures by hand. Pumping alone leaves the grit and rag that shorten your next interval.
Across the digester cleanouts in our job record the median is around 43 days on site, with smaller vessels finishing in under two weeks and multi-digester plants running considerably longer. Send us diameter, depth, grit buildup and time since the last cleaning and we will give you a window before you commit.
No. We work one vessel at a time and plan around your process with your operator.
We do, in sealed roll-offs on our own trucks. The disposal site is agreed with you in advance so it fits your permit and your state’s residuals rules.
Yes. Residuals rules vary by state, and we build your permit conditions into the scope before the job starts.
Yes. We are based in Somerset, PA and have worked in 19 states. Send us the vessel type and volume and we will tell you honestly whether the mobilization makes sense.
Price depends on vessel size, volume of solids, access, and disposal distance. Quotes are free. Send dimensions, rough volume, and time since the last cleanout and we will return scope, a window, and a price.
Primary and secondary clarifiers, timed around your collector maintenance.
The press on your pad. Cake out instead of slurry, on fewer loads.
When a vessel fails and it will not wait for a bid cycle.
Dimensions, rough volume, and how long since the last cleanout. That’s enough for us to come back with scope, a window and a price.
