A revolutionary new mobile self contained trailer for oily water separation has been introduced to the local market by environmental management company, Procon Environmental Technologies.

Industrial operations in South Africa can now benefit from the trailer unit where a permanent oil separation system is not required. Procon chief environmental engineer Jacques Steyn, explains that the mobile unit, which is mounted on a 2 t double axel trailer 2 m x 4 m, can be easily transported, and is ideally-suited for use in the removal of hydrocarbon pollution from areas such as open dams, rivers, lakes, water ways and existing oil and water separation pits.

The mobile unit comes standard with Ultraspin hydrocyclone technology – a hydrocyclone system which is able to remove 95% of 10-15 micron oil droplets; thereby ensuring environmental compliance and cleaner production objectives, while providing a more cost-effective method of dealing with oil and suspended solids in water.

Steyn notes that the force generated in the vortex of the Ultraspin system is 1 000 times greater than that of gravity, which ensures that a good oily wastewater treatment can be accomplished, even with emulsified oil droplets.

In addition, the mobile unit also comes fitted with the Mycelx hydrocarbon filtration system, a patented oil removal technology which is specifically-designed to provide industries in ecologically sensitive areas with the ability to treat the water further to non detectable limits of hydrocarbons.

The filtration system is designed to remove hydrocarbons ranging from BTEX, crude oil, sheen and chlorinated hydrocarbons, to PCBs, organic solvents, pesticides and organically bound metals from wastewater.