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      • Floating Debris Oil Skimmer
      • Floating Weir Skimmer For Duckweed Removal
    • Ash Pond Decanter Surface Skimmer
    • Floating Drum Oil Skimmer
    • Steel Industry Oil Skimmer
    • MiniHAWG and SteelHAWG
    • Sheen-Skimmer
    • Belt Oil Skimmer
    • Big Ass Belt Skimmer
    • Rope Mop Oil Skimmer
    • Tube Oil Skimmer
    • Monitoring Well Oil Skimmer
    • Automatic Weir Oil Skimmer-Separator Smart Skimmer
    • SBR Decanter
    • Moon Pool Oil Skimmer
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    • First Response Oil Skimming Systems
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    • Tripod Floating Oil Skimmer
    • Grinder Oil Skimmer
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    • Stainless Steel Coalescing OWS
    • Industrial Oil Water Separator
    • FOG - Fat Oil Grease Separator
    • Air Compressor Condensate Oil Water Separator
    • API Oil Water Separator
    • High Oil Level Sensor Alarm
    • Oil Content Monitors
    • Dissolved Air Flotation - DAF
    • Ground Water Remediation Systems
  • Skimmer Systems
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    • Drug Terminator
    • WiseASH Cyclonic Burnbarrel
    • ProBURN
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    • Oil Water Separator
    • Marine Oily Water Separator-Mini-Brute
    • BilgeVAP-Bilge Water Evaporator
    • MarineVAP-Marine Waste Water Evaporator
    • Wise Ash Cyclonic Burn Barrel
    • Diesel Fuel Purifiers
    • BilgeMon 488 Oil content Monitor
    • Fuel Filter Alert
    • Gray Water Filter
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    • The Marine Throne Toilet
    • EatsCRAP MSD Bio Supercharger
  • Evaporators
    • Bilge Water Evaporator-BilgeVAP
    • MarineVAP-Marine Waste Water Evaporator
    • Waste Water Evaporator
    • Air Compressor condensate oil water separator evaporator
    • Oil or Gas Fired Waste Water Evaporator
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      • The Bilge Filter
      • Mini Brute OWS
      • 6 Pack HI-FLOW Filter
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SKIMOIL

July 28th, 2019

7/28/2019

 

Floating Oil Skimmers VS Fixed Oil Skimmers

Oily Tip of The Month:  Consider the type of pump you our using when removing the oily water from the source. 

STOP!! What are you going to do with this oily water?
Is it going to go to a oil water separator-(OWS)? Are you eventually going to need to separate the oil from the water?
IF SO! the way you pump this oily water is going to affect the downstream separation process. HUGELY!

WHY/HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?
If you use high shear pumps to move the oil there WILL be SERIOUS headaches and problems ahead due to the fact that you will create a mechanical emulsion by chopping the oil into micro particles that are
MUCH harder to separate from water. Some very small oil particles might not even float. Avoid when possible! 
Call US! This is what we do everyday! 

When the oil in the water always goes to one place in the pit, tank or sump, and the water levels don’t change the skimming is fairly easy.
​That’s where you put the oil skimmer if you can.
Floating Drum Oil Skimmer
Selective Floating Drum Oil Skimmer
​Selective Oil Skimmers can either be Floating or fixed but will always have some type of motor driven rotating element (mop, drum, belt, tube or disc) which attracts and collects oil which is then wiped, scraped or wrung off, usually gravity drained directly to or pumped away to storage. 
Want to recover oil only and leave the water? OR Can you handle getting a bunch of water? CALL US! We've done this before!!
Fixed Belt Oil Skimmer
Selective FIXED Belt Oil Skimmer
The Selective Fixed Belt Skimmer is ideal for when the oil collects in place in the tank,sump, or....
But if winds or flow changes move the oil around then things get a bit tougher and you usually have to work with a floating type oil skimmer that you can put in and move to where the oil is. These floating skimmers are usually floating drum skimmers or discs or floating weir type skimmers. Both would have a hose attached to the skimmer sump connecting it to a pump for transferring the oil to storage. Floating oil skimmers are by far the easiest to use, and installation is just a matter of putting it in place.
Have a question about an application or what type skimmer to use. 
Just ask ROSCOE. Leave a comment below and we'll be sure to reply FAST!
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