Oil Skimmer Blog

Recently, Abanaki launched its new, interactive oil skimmer selection guide. The newly designed guide provides a quick and easy way to match the appropriate skimmer for a wide variety of applications. The grid layout quickly will determine the appropriate size, belt material and oil removal capacity, with quick links that connect to more detailed performance specifications.

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Abanaki Corporation offers many different oil skimmer resources to our customers. One of our most requested informational guide is our Solutions Sourcebook. This newly expanded second edition has 43 pages of application notes on more than 40 real world implementations of oil skimming. The Solutions Sourcebook is indexed both by type of application and by type of industry, which enables readers to have easy access to the case studies that are the most relevant to them. This oil skimmer resource includes sections on: consulting engineering, machining, manufacturing, utilities, coolant, grease/water separation, groundwater remediation, oil/water separation, and wastewater.

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Abanaki recently launched its oil skimming technology with Processing Magazine. This one stop informational page offers viewers streamlined access to all of Abanaki’s product information, online tutorials, FAQs, informational guides, and more. Check out Abanaki’s technology portal page today and learn all about Abanaki’s world leading oil skimming technologies.

Click the photo to launch Abanaki's new oil skimming technology portal!

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A UK manufacturer was in the market for a way to clean its coolant. An employee at the facility had been informed of the benefits of using the Abanaki Coolescer for coolant cleaning purposes. Plant operators decided to use the Coolescer on one of its machines that desperately needed its coolant cleaned. The approach was, if the Coolescer could clean this particular machine’s coolant, it could clean anything.

Topics: coolant, coolant maintenance, coolescer, UK

Choosing an oil skimmer best suited for your application will maximize oil removal while minimizing capital outlay and oil skimming operatinon costs. The fourth step is determining which belt, tube, or disk to select for your skimmer.

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Abanaki has just released an animated demo for a product from the groundwater remediation equipment line. The video demonstrates the PetroXtractor Active Membrane Skimmer, which is a pneumatic active skimmer pump that is entirely automatic and is designed to recover light non aqueous phase liquids (LNAPL) from underground water at depths of up to 130 feet.

Topics: remediation equipment, petrxtractor, groundwater remediation, pump, abanaki, demo, skimmer, lnapl

Choosing an oil skimmer best suited for your application will maximize oil removal while minimizing capital outlay and oil skimming operation costs. The second step in selecting an oil skimmer is to know what you need or expect your removal capacity to be. Capacity should be based on the maximum amount of oil to be removed within the shortest available time. For instance, total oil influx may be 200 gallons in a 24 hour period, which averages about 8.3 gallons per hour. But if most of it comes during a single eight hour plant shift, you will probably need a removal rate that is three times as high, especially if you are trying to prevent an unwanted discharge of contaminated water to a sewer system. As a rule-of-thumb, specify approximately twice the maximum capacity you anticipate needing for normal conditions.

Topics: oil, removal capacity, oil skimmer, water, abanaki, belt oil skimmer

Choosing an oil skimmer best suited for your application will maximize oil removal while minimizing capital outlay and oil skimming operation costs. The first step in choosing an oil skimmer is to define the operating conditions in which the skimmer will be operating. All oil skimmers have a moving medium, and possibly other parts, immersed in the liquid. The performance and life of the pick-up medium, wiper blades, pulleys, etc. are affected by different conditions. These conditions include temperatures in and out of the liquid, pH of the solution, and the presence of solvents or other reactive chemicals.

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