Kelso Technologies Inc. has entered an agreement with a Class I rail to establish a beta test site for its new rail Wheel Cleaning System (WCS). The WCS is designed for rail wheel cleaning operations in rail hump yards and industrial shipping facilities. The agreement allows Kelso to test and evaluate the performance of the WCS in actual rail yard operations. This is a key prerequisite event that is expected to lead to full commercial sales of the WCS.
Kelso’s WCS is a unique proprietary (patent pending) rail wheel cleaning system that has been designed in co-operation with Class I rail. It addresses the problematic issue of railcar wheels “caking” with various commodities during operations. The industrial heavy-duty cleaning capabilities provided by the WCS for railcar operations can reliably maintain and improve the performance of rolling stock. Some of the more challenging commodities addressed by the WCS include crude oil/tar, salt water slurry, flour water slurry, Portland cement, lime powder slurry, sugar water slurry, potash and sulfur.
The standard 46-foot WCS is a unique modular design that can be transported to site and installed. The basic system is mechanical and does not require any external power supply. It can be customized to accommodate various contaminates as specified and can be automated if required to allow signal operators to turn the system on or off.
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