Oily Water Separators

Oily Water Separators

Routine Oily Water Separator Maintenance for Industrial Washdown Areas

An Oily Water Separator provides an important function to safe guard our environment, and are present in most industrial wash down areas. We are able to maintain & clean your commercial fuel & oil separator tanks to ensure they work as effectively as they can. This allows for more precise, non-destructive excavation, and is particularly effective if you are trying to locate underground utilities.

An oily water separator separates the oil/fat and the water based on the density difference – the oil/fat droplets being lighter than the water. To do this the oily wastewater is pumped tangentially into the separator which forms a powerful vortex and huge centrifugal forces. This squeezes the lighter oil/fat droplets into the center of the vortex. Two streams are generated: treated water ready for discharge or reuse, and the separated oil for storage and disposal.