The Vertical Oil Separator has been designed to replace conventional belt skimmers and coalescing plate separators, and offers high separation performance with minimal water content in the recovered oils with the following benefits:
Benefits
- Available in two standard sizes with surface skimming capacity from oil/fat traps being 200 – 2000 l/h
- Manufactured with all product separation contact parts in stainless steel
- Floor space requirement, small unit 0.6 m² and large unit 1.0 m²
- VOS units are available for hydrocarbon or synthetic oils
- It recovers both organic and inorganic oils
- Low maintenance costs as the diaphragm pump is the only wear part
- Available with heater band to keep highly viscose oils/fats in free-flowing state
- It can be configured to operate at any time interval
- The electrical requirement is 220-240v / 1phs / 50-60 Hz at 0.4 – 1.9 Kw
Applications
- Food processing plants
- Existing wastewater treatment plants with fat, oil and grease removal problems
- Oil spills (on and offshore)
- De-oiling of Marine vessels bilge and ballast water at sea or in port
- Oil and gas platform oily water discharge
- Gasoline service stations
- Restaurants, fast food, canteens and other food establishments (In these applications the VOS can reduce BOD, COD, TSS as well as fat, oil and grease with significant reductions)
- Motor and engine workshops oil
- Petroleum and oil distribution terminals and Petro-Chemical complexes