Thirty Percent Extra: The Cost of Dosing by Feel
What heaped scoops, damp hands and re-dosing cost: a third more polymer than planned. Where the drift comes from, and a monthly reconciliation that finds it.
What heaped scoops, damp hands and re-dosing cost: a third more polymer than planned. Where the drift comes from, and a monthly reconciliation that finds it.
A site designed for 22 kg/m³ ran at an average of 25.3 through the year. Nobody decided to do that. The dose crept: a wet month here, a rejected load there, a new operator who added half a bag to be safe, a scoop never checked against a scale. Across 12,000 m³ the excess came to 39.6 tonnes of polym…
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