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Abanaki corporation is one-stop shop for oil skimmer replacement belts and tubes
Abanaki Corporation, who has successfully specialized in oil skimming and coolant maintenance technology for over 40 years, announces a complete line of oil skimmer replacement belts and tubes. Abanaki offers the widest variety of oil skimmer belt and tube materials in the industry including custom sizes. These replacement oil skimmer belts and tubes work on most oil skimmer models made by other ...
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How One Mining Company Solved Its Oil Removal Problem with the Tube Skimmer
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in 2015 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Do you have an oil removal problem? You’re not alone, and there is a steadfast solution. Read on to see how one mining and tunneling company solved its oil issues— within five hours of installing a new solution. A North American company that constructs sanitary and ...
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Oil Skimmers Help Chemical Plants Meet Clean Water Act Requirements
Chemical plants that manufacture or otherwise process chemicals (on a large-scale) face unique challenges when it comes to wastewater management. While the equipment, technology and processes used at chemical plants varies, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Water Act requires plants to meet certain performance standards aimed at water pollution prevention and treatment. ...
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Which Type of Oil Skimmer Works Best?
If you’re in the market for an oil removal solution, you already know that there are various types of oil skimmers. But did you know that choosing the wrong skimmer type can result in poor oil removal? This, in turn, can lead to maintenance issues, health and safety risks, and failure to comply with environmental regulations, among other serious business implications. To avoid these ...
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Your Oil Removal Problem, Solved (Video)
The age-old idiom that oil and water don’t mix is true, but at some point in most industrial processes they actually do combine. If the oil is not removed, it can cause quite a few adverse affects. But, thanks to oil skimming technology, we can effectively remove oil from the water’s surface. Doing so, provides economic advantages, improves wastewater treatment processes, extends the ...
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Oil Skimmers Helps Major Global Energy Project Meet Tough Environmental Standards
Oil Skimmers, Inc., a 40-year-old provider of customized floating tube oil skimmers, recently completed one of the largest and most complex orders of the year in its industry, supplying one of the world’s most significant energy projects located in the Pacific Rim. Oil Skimmers was chosen to supply 23 Model 6V oil skimming systems for a large international oil and gas company that has ...
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Skimall Oil Skimming Systems
For over 12 years, SkimTech’s Skimall Tube Type Oil Skimmers have solved industrial oils, grease and fats problems. Used by companies throughout the world, SkimTech’s hard-working oil skimmers can be found in applications from large indoor and outdoor oil/water separators to small settling tanks. Our customers have found the reliable operation and ease of maintenance make them ...
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The Better Belt Skimmer - Solving the Issues Customers Experience with Traditional Belt Skimmers
Recognizing the limitations of belt skimmers and other oil removal methods, 50 years ago we invented the “better belt skimmer”, the Brill® tube type oil skimmer. Using the right type of oil skimmer can be just as important as deciding to skim oil in the first place. Whether your business is considering a new skimming solution or has traditional belt skimmers in operation already, ...
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Super-duty tube type oil skimmer delivers instant ROI for salt water disposal facility
Salt water is a byproduct of oil and natural gas extraction. Typically, the salt water contains residual oil. For companies involved in the disposal of salt water, removing the residual oil from the water offers potentially significant economic benefit. One salt water disposal facility successfully used a Model 6V Brill® oil skimmer with the free floating collector tube, from Oil Skimmers, ...
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Abanaki`s New White Paper Helps You Avoid Costly Oil Skimming Mistakes
Abanaki Corporation, the world leader in oil skimming technologies, has created "The 7 Pitfalls of Oil Skimming," a white paper designed to help customers avoid common mistakes when it comes to purchasing or using an oil skimmer. Oil in wastewater can cause a multitude of problems in manufacturing processes. When the proper guidelines are followed, oil skimming can be a simple, cost-effective and ...
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How food producers can Reduce costs and Increase efficiency in their Wastewater treatment system
Foremost in many companies' capital-investment strategies these days is achieving fast return on investment (ROI). This especially is true in packaged foods, an industry adjusting co higher commodity prices and increased price sensitivity. At the same time, consumers are pressuring packaged-foods manufacturers to make their processes more environmentally friendly, or "green." Producers that can ...
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Oil Skimmer Efficiently Removes Oily Sludge from Truck Wash Wastewater
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in 2015 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. With a fleet of 250 tanker trucks—35 of which are used to haul soybean oil—one U.S.-based trucking company is dedicated to thoroughly cleaning its large fleet following transportation jobs. The oil tankers can each haul approximately 48,000 pounds of oil, so when cleaning ...
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Removing oil early – What it means & Why it pays
Editor’s note: This post was originally published in 2014 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Skimming oil early refers to removing oil as close as possible to the point of origin—ideally, where oil first enters the wastewater stream from the process that generates it. The earlier you skim oil, or grease and fats, the more benefits you’ll see. Early oil removal can ...
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How Do Tube Type Oil Skimmers Work? (Video)
You’re probably aware of why skimming oil is important, but do you know how skimmers actually collect oil? Are you certain the type of skimmer you’re using is the best choice? There are a handful of different oil skimming solutions, but we will focus on the most efficient and reliable system—tube-type oil skimmers. How the Oil Skimmer Works The Brill® tube skimmer type ...
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As Fracking Booms, Oil Skimming Solutions in Wastewater Management Prove a Key Piece of the Puzzle
“Fracking.” We are all familiar with the term in one way or another as it’s been one of the most discussed and debated media topics as of late. From articles and news segments with titles such as Fracking Draws Support From Unions As Jobs Flourish, Worrying Environmentalists to A Real American Story: Why the Fracking Revolution Happened Here, the “fracking” or ...
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How Effective Oil Skimming Cuts Maintenance Costs and Machine Downtime
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in 2013 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Metaldyne Corp.’s Hatebur Operations in Royal Oak, Mich., produces driveline and transmission components at a rate of 120 parts per minute. To keep pace with demand, the plant can’t afford extended downtime because of inefficient equipment. Unfortunately for Metaldyne, ...
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How Tube Skimmers Can Turn Waste Oil into New Revenue
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in 2013 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. When your company considers investing in an oil skimmer, profitability may be an unlikely motive. But here at Oil Skimmers, more customers are telling us they’ve boosted their profits and saved money after they implemented our tube skimmers. Some of these companies are ...
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Make Your Manufacturing Process More Economical Today
Inadequate oil removal equipment could be costing your manufacturing company money. In this post, we discuss how tube type oil skimmers—those that use a closed-loop tube on the water’s surface to attract floating oil or grease—can save you money compared to alternatives. 1. Efficiently Removes Oil Because they can’t get clogged with floating debris (leaves, sticks, ...
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Tube-Type Skimming in Mining operations – A Simple Oil Removal Solution
A steady flow of technological innovations in electronics, construction, healthcare and other fields is driving the resurgence of copper mining throughout the world. In Peru alone, copper production jumped nine percent in the first three months of 2014.* Industry observers predict that the demand for copper will continue to grow at a fast clip for at least the next five years. Along with the ...
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Get An Up-Close Look at the Tube-Type Oil Skimmer (VIDEO)
Oil plays a part in just about every industrial process on earth. While oil can play crucial and beneficial role in industrial operations, it can also cause many challenges once it has served its purpose and ends up in the wastewater stream. To increase the efficiency of wastewater treatment processes and maintain environmental compliance, organizations must first remove the oil before ...
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