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The History Of Airload
By Rene Foreman of Airload Environmental
Airload Engineering was born in 1984 with my dad and his friend now a business partner. My dad was based in Sheffield and his partner P Brain was based at Pembroke dock, Wales together they made, hired and sold many new pumps developing new versions along the way. They were the first to fit liquid rings vacuum pumps to tankers for the waste business and of course the steel industry loved the power of the liquid ring tankers they could not get enough of them. They even made tankers and equipment for a BRE Building research Establishment part of the Department of the Environment. This is from one of the documents I found BREVAC — NEW BRE SUCTION TANKER FOR THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES The Building Research Establishment has developed a vacuum tanker known as BREVAC to meet a worldwide need for a hygienic and effective means of emptying all types of low-cost sanitation units. The BREVAC tanker is robust and reliable and has been designed particularly for use in developing countries. The work has been funded by the Overseas Development Administration as part of British technical cooperation with developing countries, and has been carried out by Mr Ron Carroll of BRE Overseas Division. The BREVAC tanker has been designed to operate with a hose of up to 50 metres in length so that it can be used where access from a road to a household sanitation unit is restricted. Sludge’s occurring in pit latrines have a wide range of flow behaviour and are difficult to handle by conventional vacuum techniques.
The BREVAC system combines a partial vacuum effect with pneumatic Conveying in order to draw a range of sludge’s from water to heavy viscous sludge with 50 per cent solids content. Development work carried out at the Building Research Station, Garston, Herts, has included the preparation of simulated sludge’s with similar properties to those of Southern Africa, and pumping trials using a range of equipment. The first BREVAC tanker has been built for BRE by Airload Engineering and Field trials using the tanker will be conducted in Botswana, where over 11,000 permanent household sanitation units have been built based on a BRE design using double chambers.
The field trials, which begin this autumn, are being carried out in conjunction with the World Bank and the World Health Organisation International Reference Centre for Waste Disposal Because of BREVAC’s ability to move heavy sludge’s over long distances, applications are also envisaged in the emptying of settlement lagoons in the oil and water industries. (See photos below) After 9 months from operation the idea collapsed because the World Bank and the World Health Organisation stopped funding the project so it all fell through, but Airload kept going, hiring out the tankers plus making mining pumps to this day.
Right this is where the copyrights come in because in the late 90s my father and his business partner had a fall out, so they went their separate ways. Brain Industries was born selling and hiring the pumps and tankers abroad, while Airload hired out the pumps and tankers to the steel ,food and mining industries. Some years later my Dads Friend Philip Brain died in a nasty accident, but his business continued renamed by his wife and co-workers Brain Associates. Airload are still going strong but with all but a few coal mines left in the UK we now concentrate on the liquid ring tankers and the new DryVac machines hiring them out to do all sorts of strange but wonderful tasks.
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Wow. I'd previously admired your shiny red lorry but had no idea there was so much engineering and history behind it. I am sorely tempted to drop everything and go into the septic tank emptying business (a huge industry in the Philippines which doesn't have any sewerage system to speak of) with one of those. I don't think anyone has that kind of kit here. 
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