Low vs High Temp

Low vs. High-Temperature Systems
Features	Low-Temperature	High-Temperature
Pressure	The EcoSpa operates at one atmosphere, which is the pressure naturally occurring near the earth's surface. One atmosphere is ideal.	An undesirable and dangerous byproduct of high-temperature is high-pressure. The fluid and gas exert a force on the vessel and its component parts. High-pressure system should not be operated in funeral homes.
Stainless Steel Vessel	We use stainless steel for the vessel's interior. The metal is exposed to temperatures below boiling, so there would no stress fatigue of the metal.	Check with the manufacturers.
Basket	With the EcoSpa, there is no heavy basket to load and unload. Body fluids do not leak from porous baskets and cause contamination nor require constant cleaning.	The high-temperature systems' baskets are exposed to 330 degrees F. and high-pressures. The internal pressure is about 5x greater than atmospheric pressure or about 60 pounds of force pressing on the basket. Even so, the basket should be expected to last a long time.
Fluid movement	Our system is similar to a whirlpool spa. The water and alkali are moved about the body by means of jets.	High-temperature systems use an agitator.
Appearance	It resembles a spa.	Industrial in appearance
Heat	We specify a conventional 80 gallon water heater to pre-heat the water to reduce the cycle time.	Utilities are the places for steam boilers, not funeral homes. The fact that high-pressure systems require a steam boiler would be sufficient to keep most people from purchasing such a system, unless one's business were located in an industrial park.
Component Parts	Our system's component parts do not have to withstand high-pressure.	Without exception, parts designed to withstand high-temperatures and high-pressure cost more upfront and more to maintain.
Door	The door opens from the top of the vessel. This allows the funeral director to manuever the body easily into the vessel, similar to loading a body into a cremation container.	These require expensive hydraulic doors. The only operating high-temperature systems have had a lot of trouble with hydraulic doors.
Control Panel	Our control panel is simple to operate.	Unknown, as a high-temperature system for human remains has not been seen since the bankruptcy of WR².
Maintenance Costs	The hot water heater would be subject to regular maintenance.	The high-temperature system at the Mayo Clinic was a terrific engineering feat accomplished by WR². As with any prototype, it provided a starting point for future, better designed systems, especially our low-temperature system.
Capital Cost	Our first system cost Jeff Edwards about $138,000 all-in. The EcoSpa is available to our select partners.	Anderson-McQueen claims they will have spent $450,000 all-in for a high-temperature system.

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A system that costs $400,000, about four times more than the cost of a crematory, does not readily allow for the cost of an alkali disposition to a consumer to be competitive with cremation.

Matthews Internation Cremation Division offers an outrageously expensive, old style, high-pressure system, called a Bio Cremation(R). According to an interview with Paul Rahill, President of Matthews Internation Cremation Division, their system costs all in $400,000: http://mortuarymanagement.com/Rahill.html. It is not surprising that this system has not been a commercial success. For many years, they have been claiming to "soon" have a system up and running in FL.

CycledLife’s EcoSpa is only aailable to our select partners.

Matthews: $500 allocation per case to recoup $400,000 investment, plus interest, over 84 months at the rate of 150 cases per year. Total cost of the process and allocation for the equipment: $525.00

Cremation: Total cost of the process and allocation for the equipment: $155.00

CycledLife: Cost less than cremation.

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