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Cutting Costs: Comparing Oil Skimmers and Vacuum Truck Services

Posted by Kelly Gregart on Mar 30, 2022 00:51:00 AM

In just about every industrial process around the world, water is an important component of operations. Oil also plays an important role in many of these processes. There’s a good chance that at some point, water and oil are going tocome in contact with one another. When they do, removing waste fat, oil or grease (FOG) from wastewater using an efficient and economical method becomes imperative for environmental and cost considerations.

While there are multiple methods for removing oil from the...

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Industrial Oil Skimmers Reference Guide

Posted by Kelly Gregart on Feb 24, 2022 08:51:00 AM

Industrial oil skimming is a proven, efficient, and economical method to remove waste fat, oil, or grease (FOG) from wastewater. Removing waste oil is the first step in the water treatment process before the wastewater can be recycled, discharged, or further treated. The waste oil must first form a distinct layer, or separate from the wastewater, before adding an industrial oil skimmer into the application.  

An industrial oil skimmer is a mechanical device generally operated by a pump or motor...

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Oil Skimmers Deliver Efficiencies and Cost Savings in the Food Processing Industry

Posted by Jim Hebert on Mar 21, 2019 09:16:00 AM

Remove FOG from water in food processing operations In the food processing industry, companies strive to deliver high-quality products, efficiently, and to ensure their production methods are environmentally friendly as possible.

Keep reading to learn more about:

  • How smart food producers are investing in equipment that lowers costs, while enabling the manufacturing of high-quality products through efficient processes.
  • How oil skimming equipment can effectively remove oil from the surface of other liquids (usually separating used cooking oil from wastewater for...
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4 Factors to Help You Select the Right Oil Skimmer for Power Plants

Posted by Jim Petrucci on Feb 04, 2019 00:00:00 PM

remove oil at power plant Whether your power plant is coal-fired, gas-fired, hydroelectric or nuclear, petroleum-based products like fuel, hydraulic fluid and lubricating greases and oils are critical to operational success.

Supporting numerous lubricant connections, bearings, hydraulic seals and moving equipment parts, such as pumps, conveyors, feeders, scrubbers, cranes, turbines and more—it’s inevitable that these petroleum-based products will find their way into the process, cooling, or cleaning water that flows throughout a plant—posing operational challenges. 

Typically, this oily or greasy water flows to one...

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Celebrating 50 Years of Oil Removal Solutions: What Our Customers Have to Say

Posted by Jim Petrucci on Jan 31, 2019 10:16:00 AM

50 Years of Oil Removal Solutions This year marks the 50th anniversary of our company— Oil Skimmers, Inc. For the last five decades, we’ve provided customers in 119 countries with simple, effective and reliable oil removal solutions.

In over 35,000 applications around the world, our products are used to tackle waste oil challenges. By implementing our skimming systems, oil water separators and oil removal solutions, our customers are able to improve wastewater treatment processes, Read More

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