Abanaki Corp secured an order to provide a wastewater treatment solution to remove oil from water for an undisclosed water plant located in Northeast US.
Abanaki’s Oil Grabber Model 8 Belt Oil Skimmer removed the oil from fracking wastewater before disposal of large volumes into the local city sewer system for further treatment.
In this application, the fracking wastewater is loaded into tanker trucks and routed to large tanks where the wastewater is treated prior to disposal.
Abanaki’s Oil Grabber Model 8 Belt Oil Skimmer has a high removal capacity up to 40 gallons of oil per hour.
Oil skimming allows the wastewater treatment plant operators and their natural gas driller customers to remove trace amounts of oil from fracking wastewater prior to its disposal.
The skimming process uses the differences in specific gravity and surface tension between oil and water, and is used as a pre-treatment for filtration, to prevent oil from blinding filter media.
Oil skimmers help companies meet municipal and EPA water quality standards and extend the life of coolant used in machine tool operations.
Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, is a procedure used by natural gas drillers in which water, sand and chemicals are forced at high pressure into the ground to break up shale rock formations, thereby causing the discharge of trapped natural gas.
US-based Abanaki is a manufacturer of a range of products to remove oils, greases, solvents, and related hydrocarbons from water, groundwater and industrial effluent.
