A combination of rising prices for resources and the improvement in technology make treatment of mill scale and grinding swarf an extremely environmentally friendly and economical solution. The first VacuDry® plant for the recovery of oil solvents and metals from sludges began operating in autumn 2012.
Our client is a medium-sized company operating in the field of waste recycling and production of secondary raw materials. Encouraged by rising resource costs and a high market potential our client chose building the world’s first plant for the production of high quality metal alloys and silicium from waste sludges. Typical input materials for this plant are sludges derived from the processing of metal, silicium and other raw materials. The input materials contain varying combinations of oils, esters, water and abrasives. The decision for our VacuDry®thermal desorption plant offers our client the possibility to return valuable raw materials into their production cycle. In addition, this involves running the first closed loop recycling management plant for mill scale and grinding swarf.
During the treatment oils and emulsions are retrieved in a two step distillation process at temperatures of up to 300 °C and partial vacuum down to 50 mbar. In the first step water and volatile substances are separated, and in the second step oils and pollutants are separated. This special process permits the retrieval of oils and emulsions without changing their chemical structures. The absence of oxygen during the process prevents oxidation and therewith changes of the chemical structure of metals and alloys.
Core technology of the WMC, that covers an area of 40 hectares, are two econ VacuDry® plants for the treatment of drill cuttings from Socar and BP. Treatment capacity is up to 240 t of drilling mud per day. The two identical plants were designed and built by econ industries in Germany. Transportation to Baku was a logistical master piece. More than 75 trucks, 13 of which were out of gauge, were on their way from Germany to Azerbaijan in Spring 2016. Socar, under the supervision of econ industries, was responsib...
Hot commissioning of the world´s largest drilling mud treatment facility built by econ industries started this week.But, there is no time to rest on our laurels: The newly invented, fully electrically operated VacuDry® 3,000e unit is our next step to secure our leading position for the treatment of industrial hazardous wastes.This unit perfectly combines the advantages of the input material flexibility of our vacuum shovel dryers with the higher temperature range in an electrically heated oven. The...
From May 30th until June 3rd econ industries will present its method for remediation of contaminated soil at the IFAT – World’s Leading Trade Fair for Environmental Technologies in Munich (Hall B3, stand 251). The technology favoured by the cleantech company from Starnberg is vacuum distillation. The VacuDry® technology was specifically developed in-house to completely remove hazardous contaminants from soil, including mercury, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) or total petroleum hydrocarbons...
Common drilling procedures for oil and gas, used widely around the world, produce a consistently increasing amount drill cuttings containing oil. Our VacuDry® technology (vacuum distillation) is designed to safely separate oil, water and mercury from the solids (including NORM), allowing reuse of the oil and safe disposal of the water, mercury, solids and NORM. Treatment of drill cuttings is therefore beneficial from both an environmental and an economic standpoint, allowing valuable drilling oil to be...
Recycling of synthetic drilling fluids from drill cuttings with VacuDry® equipment is state-of-the-art since several years. Now, we are proud to inform you about the delivery of the largest and most efficient recycling facility for drilling fluids that was ever built. Consisting of 4 pcs. of VacuDry® 12,000 evaporators this delivery will be able to treat around 40,000 tons of fresh drill cuttings every year and will recycle more than 6,000 tons of valuable drilling fluids. Once the drilling activities...
It’s time to `Imagine – Zero industrial waste …!` down under now. The VacuDry® plant in Melbourne, Australia is now in the commissioning phase and has already started to treat oily waste. econ’s CEO Reinhard Schmidt and the German-Australian Chamber of Commerce, represented by the Director Birgit Tegethoff were on-site recently to have a closer look at the quickly progressing process. At the same time the meeting was used to discuss the latest advancements of the VacuDry® technology...
The ever increasing price for raw materials and our customers’ desire for independence from international resource suppliers was the driver behind our newly developed process to recycle grinding sludges from the metal industry.
Until now it has been usual to mechanically separate the oil and press the metal swarf with the remaining oil afterwards. But the emerging low-grade briquettes with more than 5 % oil content are inappropriate for high quality further smelting processing.In contrast with VacuDry®...
Middle of May our latest VacuDry® plant arrived at our customer in Melbourne, Australia. More than 250t finest, German high-precision mechanical engineering packed in 23 40ft containers and further 1.450m² timber packing found its way down under. Supervised by our “econeers” on location the installation is already on going.
Also the plant is put in operation soon, so they say “Time to Clean Up!” shortly. That’s when the recovery of valuable oil in the worldwide most efficient...
The VacuDry® technology for the treatment of drill cuttings was a new and promising topic for a lot of fruitful discussions at the IADC / SPE conference in Fort Worth, TX.
Because econ archives first class results with treating drill cuttings in Europe and since all these promising conversations at the conference we are confident that we will implement the VacuDry® solution also in the USA very soon.
The highly profitable recovery of the drilling fluid for reuse and the elimination of hazardous waste...
econ goes YouTube
Innovation and a close relationship to our business partners – two important basic objectives econ industries is aiming and representing.
That’s why we just started our own YouTube-channel to enlarge our online presence beyond www.econindustries.com and the leading social networks.
For our clients and friends this means the unique opportunity to get a closer look at our ‘econeering’ technologies. May we call your attention to our new corporate video? We provide an...
econ industries is proud to announce the next project towards making mercury history: a delivery contract for a VacuDry® Unit going to India. A VacuDry® 3 000 plant will be deployed to ...
NORM doesn’t sound like a big thing. But Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material might let the alarm bells ring. Everyone has heard of “radioactive material” and that sounds ...
Recycling of Mill scale and Grinding Swarf - Brochure