skimming unit Articles
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Rohm & haas chemical plant - Case study
Evaporator Limits Boron to 5 PPM at Award-Winning Chemical Plant Reprinted from Chemical Processing PROBLEM: The biggest challenge confronting Rohm & Haas Corp. in building a wastewater plant for its chemical facility in Elma, WA, was meeting Washington State Department of Ecology limitations on boron of 5 ppm. The Elma plant manufactures sodium borohydride, a versatile chemical used in a ...
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Eastern foods - Oil skimmers, inc. Skimmers recover $6,000 of Waste oil per year - Case study
Oil Skimmers Inc. units continuously draw the oil-covered tubing up and out of the water, through the scrapers mechanism, and return the clean tubing to the water surface to gather more oil. The collected oils travel down a boom into an underground tank. Two Model 6V Brill™ floating collector tube skimming units are recovering $6000 worth of waste oil/year (144,000 lbs.) that previously ...
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5 Red Flags That Your Oil Skimming Solution Isn’t Reliable
Using an oil skimmer to remove oil from coolant, process water and wastewater has many benefits, such as reducing maintenance, lowering environmental impact, improving working conditions, and potentially creating new revenue opportunities. But, to reap those benefits, your oil skimmer must be completely effective, efficient, and reliable. In this post, we cover five signs that your oil skimming ...
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Oil Skimming in the Beverage and Canning Industry
Meeting Local and Federal Regulations for Wastewater Discharge Today, beverage canning facilities can produce 2,500 cans or more per minute on one production line using high-speed machinery. In the United States, more than 200 can manufacturing plants in 38 states produce approximately 130 billion cans each year. Aluminum beverage cans, which are the most widely used, were first introduced in ...
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Turning coolant contamination into a profitable oil-reclamation program - Reprinted from Fluid & lubricant ideas - Case study
What started out as an expensive problem of metalworking coolant contamination has been turned into a profitable oil-reclamation program. Van Huffel Tube of Warren, Ohio – a manufacturer of welded tubing – was spending about $3,000 per year in recharging a soluble-oil coolant tank that would become contaminated with tramp lubricating oil. The 1,000 gallon tank had to be recharged ...
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Oil Skimmer makes oil/water separator more efficient
Industrial facilities depend on oil/water separators to separate oil from its waste water. While oil/water separators are a helpful component to a plant's wastewater system, oil/water separators traditionally do not provide an efficient method of removing oil once it has been separated from the waste stream. Traditionally, the separator industry has either used overflow skimmer pipes or weirs, ...
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Oil skimmer extends life of parts washing fluid and ends recontamination
Like many metal working shops, Anderson Screw Products of Jamestown, New York turned to aqueous parts cleaning because of limits imposed by the EPA on the discharge of emissions and wastes. Anderson operates a 50,000 square foot plant with 65 machines, including a dozen or so parts washers - Magnus dip tanks filled with a mixture of water and cleaning compound. The cleaning compound utilizes and ...
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Albert Looms in UK replaces saucepan with Model 4 Skimmer
Albert Looms (used car recycling) recently purchased an oil skimmer to collect the oil from their interceptors and drains. Having previously used a saucepan with a long handle, the idea of a machine being able to do the work for them seemed quite appealing. Albert Looms' Operations Manager Ray Kirk explained, 'Removing the oil was one of those jobs that has to be done but is time consuming and ...
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Hahn manufacturing chose oil skimming to remove tramp oils and saved money in the process
Hahn Manufacturing, a family-owned business, decided to skim oil, recycle coolant and help keep its part of the world cleaner. Hahn Manufacturing, located in Cleveland, Ohio, supplies precision prototype and production machined parts for OEMs across the country. The coolant tanks in Hahn's multiple machining centers were being contaminated with tramp oil. Plant manager Gary Ott was concerned ...
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Oil skimmer extends coolant life, clears machine shop`s smoky environment
Six months ago Tom Zovko, owner of Cleveland, OH-based Z&Z Manufacturing, a producer of hydraulic fittings and special screw-machine products, couldn't see across his 15,000 sq. ft. machine shop. The smoke generated by his CNC machining operations was not only polluting the environment but consuming much of his profits. That's when Zovko contacted Abanaki Corp. for a solution. Founded in ...
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Oil/water separator and oil skimmer companies work together to help power generation facilities
Power generation facilities depend on oil/water separators to separate oil from its waste water. While oil/water separators are a helpful component to a plant’s wastewater system, oil/water separators traditionally do not provide an efficient method of removing oil once it has been separated from the waste stream. Knowing what his customers were faced with, Dave Goding, president, Mercer ...
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