Background In Marine Waste Water Evaporation

How to Evaporator Your Marine Waste Waters Away


In 2000, SkimOil™ introduced the BilgeVAP,  Marine Waste Water Evaporator to the inland waterways operators, an electric powered system that works GREAT for evaporating oily bilge water. The BilgeVAP was and is simple and deadly effective — with no emissions and only one moving part. Problem is — it takes a lot of power to evaporate water! 2.6 Kw to evaporate 1 gallon of water. Few boats have that much surplus power. If you’ve got the power to spare, it’s a valid alternative for eliminating oily bilge water or slops at 4-12 gph. At that time in the world, 
oil water separators had funky controls and were not trusted. Today our BRUTE oil water separators are among the toughest most reliable USCG approved separators made anywhere — but they cannot deal with gray water or emulsions — like from washing down an engine room with soap. Our BRUTE separator does have a very efficient downstream filter that can and will remove emulsions — that would normally fool and oil water separator.
Now fast forward to 2008 when the world went nuts, and the EPA was successfully sued and mandated (by law) to start enforcing the (CWA) Clean Water Act on commercial vessels over 79' in length. So now most commercial vessels have an NPDES permit and the marine industry had to start managing gray water and even treated black water. We developed the MarineVAP — a much more efficient electric evaporator designed to be able to handle all onboard waste waters including gray water.

We saw then gray water was going to be the problem water of the future. The vertical MarineVAP is smaller — but still takes lots of power that few boats have! New build boats are putting on enough generators to feed it. It takes a lots of electric power to evaporate water! Nobody has enough power to evaporate all the gray water they were creating.

Marine Water Evaporator--MarineVAP
Evaporate Your Managed Water Problems Away!
ZERO LIQUID DISCHARGE 
BilgeVAP Bubba Proof Marine Water Evaporator
Zero Liquid Discharge! Evaporates your water away!
THE BILGEVAP AND MARINEVAP HAVE NO EMISSIONS
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BilgeVAP--Marine Waste Water Evaporator

A few forward looking companies are now using the MarineVAP to eliminate ALL their onboard waste waters, but this only works when they take proactive steps to also reduce the amount of gray water they are creating at source. They are putting no water off. Consider: A line boat can carry a crew of 6-12 people all creating wash water, shower water and waters used in cooking and cleaning. They simply generate too much special marine waste waters to be practically evaporated onboard with electric power.

Turn your boat into a NO DISCHARGE ZONE.
Although the commercial marine industry’s powerful lobby keeps getting enforcement day put off and gray water is still an iffy proposition — the writing is on the wall. JUDGEMENT DAY IS NOW. You are going to have to manage your gray water starting in 2013. The rules have changed. Are you ready? We are… read on!
OilEaterVAP — the final solution
The OilEaterVAP is a unique evaporation system designed specifically for the commercial marine industry and their unusual waste disposal problems including oily bilge water, gray water and treated black water. As regulations tighten up, so does the need for a better way of eliminating or reducing these waste streams and pollution. Here it is! You already have lots of the fuel for the OilEaterVAP, diesel fuel and waste oils. One gallon of diesel can evaporate up to 15 gallons of your wastewaters. Now we’re talking efficiency!

The OilEaterVAP comes in sizes for use on workboats, barges, terminals, boatyards, shore facilities, dredges, LAKERS, drilling rigs, oil platforms, OSV’s, fuel flats, etc. Sizes to evaporate 20 gph, 40 gph, or 60 gph.
OilEaterVAP Specs
Model No. OEV20 OEV40 OEV60
Evaporation Rate - gph 20 40 60
Dimensions 34.5"Wx48"Hx45"L 42"Wx48"Hx74"L 42"Wx48"Hx112"L
BTUs Required 230,000 458,000 688,000
Tank Capacity - gallons 150 250 350
Fuel Types — diesel, fuel oil, waste oil, propane, natural gas ALL ALL ALL
Construction 304 & 316 stainless 304 & 316 stainless 304 & 316 stainless

This OilEaterVAP can be effectively used to easily and economically evaporate any industrial wastewaters — as long as you have fuel oil, diesel or waste oils to fire it. This VERY efficient wastewater evaporator has simple controls, redundant triple safety shutoffs and the ability to burn away waste oils — while evaporating wastewaters, giving you the potential of ZERO Liquid Discharge.

Read on! Turn your boat into a No Discharge Zone! Recycles your waste oils into energy for evaporating waste waters? Reduce or eliminate two waste streams at once!

The OilEaterVAP can even be configured as a dual fuel system (optional), able to switch back and forth between diesel and waste oils — or even switching between fuel oils and natural gas / propane. Both burners can use as fuel nearly any type of waste petroleum based oil, or new fuel oil. The gas-oil burners provides the option of having automatic backup to natural gas/propane or to your waste oils.

The OilEaterVAP is a sophisticated yet simple technology with high quality components, simple controls and solid engineering to VERY effectively and safely evaporate your waste waters away!

Our smallest OilEaterVAP, the OEV20, is only 34.5" wide to fit thru any hatch or door to get it onto a workboat. OEV20 evaporates 20 gallons per hour! Or put the OEV60 OileaterVAP on a dock or a barge and evaporate 60 gph of marine waste waters.

The unique dual fuel option allows you to even more efficiently burn oily waste waters at the same time you’re evaporating it’for maximum efficiency.
Your oily bilge/gray/treated black water —l GONE!