FFS-1076 2026 Energy System Solutions Guide_vol 1_Interactive - Flipbook - Page 39
CASE STUDY:
PHASE III: THE LONG HAUL
MAINTENANCE WITHOUT THE HEADACHE
Equipment must be tested. Lines must be monitored. Regulators require
compliance with environmental testing. Every hour a site spends under
maintenance and testing is an hour it is not selling. So the third thing Franklin
Electric helps Kwik Trip™ solve is staying compliant and prevent downtime.
This is where the partnership produced its signature innovation. Spill
containers have to be tested regularly, and the old way — hydrostatic
testing, water everywhere, time and labor at every container — was
exactly the kind of recurring headache a 900-store operator multiplies
into a serious cost. Kwik Trip™ brought that pain point to Franklin Electric.
The result was the Defender Series® Below Grade Double Wall Spill
Container — a double-walled container that satisfies spill-bucket testing
requirements while eliminating the need for messy hydrostatic testing
and provides a clean manway surface for snow plows to pass over during
the winter. It exists because Kwik Trip™ described a problem and Franklin
Electric engineered the answer.
The same maintenance-friendly thinking runs across the rest of the
Defender Series® lineup at Kwik Trip™:
•
Defender Series® Overfill Prevention Valves deliver reliable shutoff
and can be tested from grade level minimizing the cost and difficulties
that come with pulling OPV’s for inspections & testing.
•
Defender Series® P/V Vents with Vaults regulate tank pressure and
can be serviced at grade level, eliminating costly lift equipment and
cutting maintenance time, and reducing safety risk.
Watching over all of it is Franklin Electric’s monitoring intelligence:
interstitial tank and sump monitoring and Electronic Line Leak Detection,
provided via the EVO™ Series. The system continuously watches doublewall piping, tanks, and sumps for the first sign of a breach, automates
compliance testing, and gives Kwik Trip™ clear visibility across its vast
network of sites across the Midwest — catching small problems while they
are still small, and keeping busy stores compliant with minimal disruption.
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