Monitoring Well Oil Skimmer

Well Skimmers for Monitoring & Recovery Wells

The Belt Skimmers (TBS)  are used mostly on wastewater applications, however we have developed specialized units for product recovery from 2", 4" and larger wells — the Monitoring Well Belt Skimmer (MWBS). Oil and hydrocarbons are attracted to belts by surface tension, then lifted up and scraped off the belt. The collected oil flows by gravity down a chute or trough to the collection device. The collection rate has to do with the belt width, "reach" — distance from the skimmer to the bottom of the belt and the type of product to be recovered. These well skimmers can reach from 5 feet to way below grade, pick up oil only and bring it to the surface. Let’s talk.

Lower tail pulley assemblies for 1" and 2" wide belts are similar and fitted with a weight below the tail pulley. Wider belts use just a tail pulley without the weight. To prevent cogs from meshing in 2" & 4" wells, a polyurethane web is used. This has its own weight and ends just above the tail pulley assembly. These monitoring well skimmers can be furnished in single speed (MWBS) AND variable speed (MWVBS). On the well skimmers there's not much to see — all the action is below grade.

​The MWVBS variable speed belt skimmer can be fitted for use on/with monitor or product recovery wells 2" ID and larger by using 1", 2" or 4" wide poly or stainless belts with a special lower tail pulley assembly. Reach to 25 ft. and maybe much more for higher recovery rates — the beauty of the variable speed is that you can tune/adjust the belt speed and recovery rate to fit the specific application — let’s talk! NO PUMPING & simple hands off automatic operation (HOA). The Monitoring Well Belt Skimmers are often used for remediation jobs to recover oil, diesel or gasoline sitting on top of the water table, often at spill sites or where leaking underground storage tanks (LUST) have been removed.

Most states have a "LUST" fund that owners of underground storage tanks (UST) have to contribute to — because usually any older steel tanks that are removed or replaced — are leakers, that have often been leaking for years, but they’ve been buried and out of sight and mind. Next time you see a service or gas station being removed or remodeled — take a look for a big rusted tank sitting on the side of the excavation. Leaking underground storage tanks (LUST) are an old problem — that can cause ongoing problems with putting oil or gasoline right on top of the water table — that can take years to remediate — if ever.

New tanks today are usually fiberglass — it only took 75 years or so for us to figure this out. The old steel tanks — without special coatings only had a life expectancy of 15-25 years, but how many do you think were removed before they had to be. It has been estimated that there are over 1 million underground tanks — old steel ones, that are leaking today. And that’s just the ones the authorities know about. YIKES — maybe it’s time for a monitoring well skimmer — right there in your back yard??
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OPTIONAL: 5' Adjustable Stand
Remote Location? No Power? No AC?
Run our monitoring/recovery well belt skimmers on battery power.
Now available with 12VDC gearmotors.