Skimmers Articles
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Helpful Techniques for Evaporating Oily Wastewater
Oily wastewater is a very common type of wastewater generated by industrial facilities. The metal working, wire drawing, machine building, ink manufacturing, some food processing operations and others generate oily wastewater streams. Before considering techniques for evaporation, it is important to understand the nature of oil in water. Oil can take two forms in water—either free or ...
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Kasco Aeration and Decorative Fountains: Improving Water Quality and Aesthetics
Floating decorative fountains have changed a lot over the years and were once designed for resorts, city parks, and other attractions. New technologies have made floating decorative wells more accessible and less expensive to operate. Homeowners with in-ground ponds and lakes can now give their properties a stunning look by adding Kasco aeration and decorative fountains. Kasco has a wide range of ...
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Copper Sulfate Threatens Water Health
In the ongoing battle against water weeds in the ponds, rivers, lakes and wetlands across the nation, there is always the temptation to turn to chemicals in order to get the upper hand. This is understandable, especially if you are facing a major infestation of any of the highly invasive water weeds we’ve written about in previous articles (Hydrilla, Eurasian Watermilfoil, Duckweed, Water ...
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Management of Test Oil: Recapture and Reuse
Abstract The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s (BSEE) Ohmsett test facility in Leonardo, New Jersey has a long history of performing numerous oil spill response-related tests. Many of these employ a range of test oils including crude, fuel, refined, etc. With an eye toward environmentally acceptable management of these fluids, a significant amount of effort is focused on the ...
By OHMSETT
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Celdar Technology - Emulsion Breaking Automotive Industry - Case Study
The customer asked us to evaluate the ELECTROCOAGULATION for the emulsion breaking and the main objective of the company that produces about 3000 tons / year of emulsions is to be able to avoid disposal, which has a very high cost and to send the water after the oil separation, to its chemical physical ...
By Intecna srl
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D.A.F. - Performance of Dissolved Air Flotation - Case Study
Waste water effected with polutant and treated with DAF. Dissolved Air Flotation System worked well and reusulted in clear water. most of all floating floc have been removed and visibly clean. ...
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Performance of Oil Skimmers - Case Study
How does it Work? The NeoSkim Model utilizes a continuous belt and wiper to remove up to 150 liters of oil per hour from the fluid surface. The belt, operating on a motor and pulley system, runs through contaminated liquid to pick up oil from the surface. After traveling over the head pulley, the belt passes through tandem wiper blades where oil is scraped off both sides of the belt and ...
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Oil Spill Cleanup Methods: How Experts Tackle Environmental Disasters
When an oil spill occurs, it can have devastating effects on the environment and local wildlife. These spills can occur for a variety of reasons, including accidents, natural disasters, or human error. Fortunately, experts have developed a variety of effective oil spill cleanup methods that can help mitigate the damage caused by these disasters. One of the most common oil spill ...
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Ozone for Protein Skimmers
How a Protein Skimmer work. As part of the life support system (LSS), the Protein Skimmer provides safe, high-quality water, maintaining stable conditions for aquariums, live seafood holdings, and aquaculture operations. The purpose of protein skimmers or foam fractionators is to remove fine solids and dissolved proteins from water. Protein skimmers remove dissolved particles from a wastewater ...
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Friess Oil Skimmers applied to Area Drainage - Case Study
On a railroad site for freight car storage, there are numerous tracks that are equipped with hydraulically operated brakes to be able to brake out driverless freight car trains. Since these hydraulic systems are exposed to harsh environmental conditions as well as being under high pressure, it happens time and again that hydraulic hoses burst. Due to the size of the area, it often takes some time ...
By Friess GmbH
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Project - Greasebuster - FOG Skimmer - Chilled foods manufacturer
Working with a food manufacturer to help them meet consents and the challenges of increased ...
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What is COD in water?
Chemical oxygen demand (COD) is a chemical method to measure the amount of reducing substances that need to be oxidized in a water sample. Oxygen equivalent of substances (usually organic) that can be oxidized by strong oxidants in wastewater, wastewater treatment plant effluent and contaminated water. In the study of river pollution and industrial wastewater properties and the operation and ...
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Removal of Tramp Oil with an Oil Skimmer from Cooling Water in a Steel Mill - Case Study
Acchieving Process Optimisation and Cost Reduction The Problem The cooling water system at a steel rolling mill is heavily contaminated with tramp oil due to various oil leaks. Small amounts of oil and very viscous grease come from the lubrication of the roll bearings. Hydraulic systems leak small but continual amounts of hydraulic oil into the cooling water system. Burst hoses or damaged piping ...
By Friess GmbH
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Removal of Oil in Groundwater With Oil Skimmer - Case Study
The Problem In the area around a refinery’s facilities the groundwater was suspected of being contaminated by hydrocarbons. Test borings in the refinery area confirmed the contamination by waste oil that had percolated through the ground, and that had left a layer of waste oil on the surface of the groundwater. The local authorities engage a consulting company, and asked that they recommend ...
By Friess GmbH
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FRIESS Oil Skimmer in the steel industry
In order to clean the cooling water in steel factories companies usually use a combination of scale pit, longitudinal clarifier and gravel ...
By Friess GmbH
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Replacement of a Floating Mop type Oil Skimmer with a FRIESS Model S 100 Oil Skimmer with Oil Collector Tube - Case Study
The Problem A rectangular clarifier tank at a steel factory was equipped with an oil skimmer with a floating oil pick-up mop to remove oil and grease from the cooling water surface. Because of the high maintenance, repair, and spare part costs for the floating mop oil skimmer system, the maintenance department wanted to reduce their costs, as the mop skimmer frequently broke down, was out of ...
By Friess GmbH
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Accurately Measuring Settled Sludge with the Sludge Finder 2
The City of Mirabel, Quebec, Canada, was created in 1971 from the merger of 14 municipalities and is home to over 59,000 citizens. The city is constantly growing due to the many opportunities available, so it is important that all the city's utilities, such as a wastewater treatment plant, are always up and running. What did they need? In the wastewater treatment process, the primary clarifier ...
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Removal of Tramp Oil from Cooling Water in a Steel Mill - Case Study
Acchieving Process Optimisation and Cost Reduction with the use of an Oil ...
By Friess GmbH
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Removal of Tramp Oil from Coolant - Case Study
Increasing the Service Life of Coolant by Removing Tramp Oil from Coolant ...
By Friess GmbH
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Pool Conversion - Case Study
Cost effective solution to turn an unused swimming pool into underground rainwater storage, with the scalable high strength Atlantis Flo-Tank modules. A pool conversion was carried out in Brisbane. The conversion was relatively simple. Firstly the pool was drained and dried. Washed river sand was placed in the deeper end of the pool and levelled off such that the sand was 1.7m from the top of the ...
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