Pond Aeration Systems
Stop Fish Kills
by
Pennington Equipment Company
1520 N. 6th Street, Springfield, IL. 62702
888-261-4726 www.SolarAerator.com
Providing 100% solar powered stand alone pond aerators that operate 24/7, summer and winter, to improve pond water quality and prevent fish kills.
Our Product Description:
The PEC solar powered aeration system captures and uses a standard marine battery to operate the system 24/7 for up to 3 cloudy days in a row.
The stored solar power drives one or more PEC-45 air pumps rated at 20,000 hours of maintenance free and lubrication free operation.
The pumped air moves through a flexible plastic tube to a floating airlift diffuser in the pond. The airlift diffuser operates either with a floated diffuser or inside a floating expandable tube. All pond water is then mixed and aerated to saturation from any depth. In this manner hypoxia is stopped and fish kills are prevented.
Installation:
If you can unpack the box you can setup the aerator on a dry well drained ground..
No training is required.
Maintenance:
Keep the solar panel(s) and airlift tube free of debris. No training is required.
PEC is introducing a first-of-its-kind program that warranties the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) for our aeration customers.
One year bumper-to-bumper warranty. 2 year pump motor warranty excluding pump diaphragms which are recommended to be replaced annually at a cost of $35.00/pump. 5 year airlift diffuser warranty. 20 year* depreciating value PV solar panel warranty and recycling program (*maximum value is 10% of unit purchase price and depreciation rate is 5% per year less wear value as determined by PEC).
The TCO warranty can be translated simply as follows: You will not pay more than the retail cost of a pump repair kit (approx. $35/yr) for each PEC 45 pump annually, plus the cost of a replacement pump every 2 years (approx. $125/yr), plus shipping. Your TCO is $160.00/yr. plus shipping costs. Thats less than 25% of the annual maintenance cost of every other aeration system we have ever seen.
The PEC solution was built from the ground up for our stand alone pond aeration systems, PEC is helping to eliminate the complexity typically associated with other aeration solutions, which most often results in high maintenance and management costs. By designing a powerful yet simple solution from the start, PEC drives down the TCO, helping customers realize dramatic aeration cost savings year after year.
ALL OTHER AERATION SYSTEMS IN THE MARKETPLACE TODAY
All other aeration systems in the marketplace today were designed when power was cheap and are not applicable to solar powered aerations systems.
All of these high pressure systems, fountains and splashers, and deep water air injection systems are the antithesis of a LOWEST COST OF OWNERSHIP appoach. Simply stated these older technologies are based on applying as much energy as you can, in as little space as possible, in order to achieve a slightly higher SOTE and reduce energy useage by maybe 30%-50% while increasing the maintenance costs of these systems 10 times and MORE....
When using the air we breathe, you can only get about 8 pounds of oxygen dissolved into a million gallons of water. All oxygen transfer using air is a gas side limited reaction, period. (see ASCE Oxygen Transfer Testing). Ten States Standards for water and wastewater treatment realizes this and continues to publish their practical results using low pressure coarse bubble technology for aerating water.
JUST COMMON SENSE
It is NOT cheaper to spray water into the air to aerate it. As soon as water touches air it is saturated with oxygen and begins to evaporate dropping the water temperature rapidly. The higher up you pump water above the surface, the more energy is used up....however it is very pretty and useful for lowering the water temperatures.
It is NOT cheaper to maintain high pressure air pumped deep into the water, no matter how deep you pump it. Bottom mounted fine diffused air bubbles disturb and float sediment, fry, and most small highlife to the surface to form an unsightly sheen of dead and dying rafts of biomass that blocks out the sun and makes matters worse (see Dissolved Air Flotation).
PEC TCO HIGHLIGHTS
* On average, upfront costs for a PEC system typically represent 67 percent of its annual TCO. Based on data complied from customers, operating costs such as hardware replacement, training, support, adds and changes, system management, power consumption, and other ongoing charges comprise approximately 25 percent of all compared solar powered system's five-year TCO.
* PEC's brilliantly simple architecture delivers an intrinsically lower TCO and dramatically greater value than the more complex and less reliable solutions offered by other so called solar aerator vendors.
* The PEC Lowest TCO warranty alows PEC to analyze TCO for each customer's exact requirements.
* The Lowest TCO warranty program supports PEC's efforts to provide solutions that deliver the full financial benefits of pond aeration throughout a system, rather than simply offering costly replacement hardware and maintenance support agreements.