wastewater treatment Articles
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Restaurant Wastewater Treatment
Restaurant Wastewater Treatment Grease Trap Wastewater Treatment, Fats, Oils & Grease Easily Removed Wastewater Recycled A grease trap waste hauling operation requested assistance on determining a way to treat their highly varied grease trap waters. The grease is yellow (cooking oils from kitchens/restaurants) as well as grey grease from other nonfood sources. The ...
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Wastewater Treatment Process
The wastewater treatment process is complex and critical to civilization. In simplest terms, wastewater is water that has been mixed with waste matter. Wastewater can be classified as domestic, municipal, or industrial based upon the source of generation. For instance, domestic wastewater comes from everyday liquid waste, including water used to flush the toilet, to shower, or to wash dishes. ...
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What Most People Don’t Know About How Their Water Is Treated: Wastewater Treatment
Many people are unaware of how their water is treated to remove contaminants. But when we consider how important clean water is to our health and well-being - and to the condition of the planet - we may want to learn more about the processes of wastewater treatment. The following discusses several types of standalone wastewater treatment systems. ...
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How can oil skimming improve your wastewater treatment process?
Wastewater treatment is a major challenge for organizations across a variety of industries. To better understand why this is the case, consider the following scenario. A privately held potato chip plant hoped to increase its snack production by 20% to roughly 72 million pounds a year. However, the plant faced a major obstacle to achieving this goal: While cleaning the fryers throughout ...
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Weatherized oil skimmer installation keeps national railway running even in Harsh winter conditions - Case study
Today, various sources point to railroads as among the world’s most environmentally conscious companies in the transportation business. Several important priorities and regulations have helped railroads achieve this status, including the implementation of more fuel-efficient locomotives, better management of resources, the reduction of waste and improvements to wastewater treatment. One ...
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Solutions for FOG Removal in the Food Industry: 10 Considerations
If you work in the food and beverage industry, you are likely familiar with the challenges that fat, oil and grease (FOG) buildup presents and the potential costly impact on your wastewater treatment processes and your bottom ...
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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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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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Grease Trap Wastewater Case Study
Restaurant Wastewater Treatment Grease Trap Wastewater Treatment, Fats, Oils & Grease Easily Removed Wastewater Recycled A grease trap waste hauling operation requested assistance on determining a way to treat their highly varied grease trap waters. The grease is yellow (cooking oils from kitchens/restaurants) as well as grey grease from other nonfood sources. The ...
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Oil skimmers solutions guide: wastewater treatment industry
Growing Snack-Food Manufacturer Reduces Costs, Recycles Waste A privately held snack-food manufacturer in Ohio expected to increase production of potato chips by 20%, to about 72 million pounds a year. While more potato chips would mean more profits, it also would mean more oil-laden wastewater from washing the potatoes and the fryers used to cook them. PROCESS: When operators clean the fryers ...
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Cost-efficient oil skimmer simplifies wastewater treatment
Tim Ruch, head mechanic at Viessman Trucking in Mankato, Minn., knew that oily sludge was a problem - specifically, the oily sludge in wastewater from cleaning out the company's tanker trucks. Meeting municipal regulations for wastewater effluent involved numerous chemicals, equipment and labor hours. However, after purchasing a fully automatic oil skimmer from Oil Skimmers Inc. of Cleveland, the ...
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Air bubble and oil droplet interactions in centrifugal fields during air-sparged hydrocyclone flotation
The interactions of air bubbles and oil droplets in centrifugal flotation have been considered with respect to process conditions present during Air-sparged Hydrocyclone (ASH) flotation. Encounter efficiency of oil droplets with air bubbles has been found to be significantly smaller when compared to encounter efficiency of mineral particles. Collision and sliding contact times have been ...
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Brakebrush Brothers - Simple way to reduce costs and increase profit - Case study
Packaged-food producers frequently use and then must discard large batches of cooking oil used in their process. Usually they drain most of the oil directly from equipment, but they must remove residual oil by regularly washing fryers, ovens, conveyors, and other machinery. The oil mixes with the wash water and becomes part of the plants wastewater stream. Having oil in wastewater complicates ...
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Allegheny Ludlum uses Abanaki to support world-class wastewater treatment standards
Allegheny Ludlum Corporation is a world leader in the technology, production and marketing of specialty materials - from stainless and silicon- electrical steels to titanium, nickel alloys and other advanced alloys. Its customers represent diversified consumer and capital goods markets in more than 30 nations. In keeping with the company's ISO 9001-certified quality system, the leader goes well ...
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Oil and Gas Boom Fuels Need for Effective Wastewater Treatment
The U.S. oil and gas industry is king again. The U.S. will overtake Russia as the world’s top oil and gas producer by the end of 2013, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported on Oct. 3. (http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=13251) Oil and gas production in the U.S. has soared in recent years with the expansion of hydraulic fracturing. Since 2008, U.S. petroleum ...
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Oil Skimmers, Inc., solves waste oil problems quickly and easily - Case study
Many types of industrial processes create waste oil, which can be time-consuming and expensive to collect, store, and dispose of. Worse yet, without constant effort to remove them, residual oils can build up and cause hazards, contamination, and machine downtime. In the metals industry, oil waste comes from machinery and components used to make steel and other metals, as well as from cleaning ...
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4 Variables That Can Impact the Efficiency of Your Oil/Water Separator
Removing oil from any industrial process is important. Animal fats, grease and petroleum-based oils all have a significant impact on both overall maintenance and environmental compliance of an operation. Hence why oil refineries, chemical plants, steel mills and many other types of companies throughout the world use oil/water separators. This flow-through device takes advantage of the fact ...
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Oil Skimmers Inc., resolves waste oil problems
Companies that provide reusable containers for shipping of materials and finished goods use a combination of processes to clean and restore the containers between uses. This makes for a wastewater stream full of many types of oils from both the residual contents of the containers and the restoring processes themselves. Of course, these oils must be removed from the water before it can be reused ...
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Oil skimming solution keeps national railway running year round
A North American railway that prides itself on environmental responsibility recently worked with an engineering firm to design a new wastewater treatment facility for one of its refueling stations in British Columbia. The design challenge required a careful balance of meeting the railway’s commitment to environmental sustainability, while still being able to operate in severe weather ...
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Environmentally friendly cogeneration plant saves time and money with Oil skimmer - Case study
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Performance Track Program is a prestigious program that recognizes the accomplishments of manufacturing facilities that lead the way for improving their facilities’ environmental performance (i.e. reduce air emissions and consumption of water). Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Partners L.P. is an elite member of this program. They have been ...
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