Complete industrial oil skimming systems for applications requiring more than a standalone skimmer. Compare ORTS® oil removal and transfer systems, ESS® enclosed skimming systems and mobile oil recovery systems for pits, sumps, tanks, ponds and industrial wastewater.
Move beyond the standalone oil skimmer with integrated systems for recovered-oil storage, transfer, enclosure, containment and mobility. Compare ORTS®, ESS® and Mobile Oil Skimming Systems for industrial wastewater, pits, sumps, tanks and ponds.
The skimming principle may be similar, but storage, transfer, containment and mobility determine which complete system is appropriate.
For permanent installations where recovered oil must be skimmed, decanted, stored and transferred as one integrated process.
Skim → decant → store → transfer ESS® Enclosed Skimming SystemFor tanks, manways and harsh environments where the skimmer requires an enclosure, weather protection or vapour containment.
Enclose → protect → contain MOBILE SYSTEMS Move Between LocationsFor facilities where one oil-recovery system needs to serve multiple pits, sumps, tanks or ponds.
Move → deploy → recover → relocateIndustrial oil recovery can require additional equipment after the oil leaves the water surface. Complete systems integrate the skimmer with the equipment needed to handle the recovered oil and the installation itself.
A Brill® free-floating collector tube continuously removes suitable free-floating oil from the liquid surface.
Decanting and suitable discharge arrangements can reduce unnecessary water in the recovered-oil stream.
Recovered oil may need local storage, automatic transfer, containment, heating or environmental protection.
Mounting, controls, tank interfaces and mobility are configured around the actual plant rather than treated as afterthoughts.
Industrial wastewater · pits · sumps · steel · rail · process water
ORTS® combines the major stages of continuous oil recovery on one engineered skid. A Brill® tube skimmer removes surface oil, the integrated decanting stage reduces recovered water, the oil is held in a local tank and a transfer pump moves it to the required remote collection point.
It is particularly useful where a standalone skimmer would otherwise require separate tanks, pumps and controls to be engineered around it.
Tanks · manways · weather exposure · harsh environments · VOC-sensitive applications
ESS® places the oil-skimming components inside a purpose-built enclosure for applications where an exposed skimmer is undesirable. The system protects the equipment from wind, weather and surrounding plant conditions and can be configured as a sealed and gasketed system where vapour containment is required.
Its modular architecture combines the System Core with optional height extension and adapter plate, making it particularly useful for existing tank openings and manways.
Where oil accumulates periodically in several pits, tanks, sumps or ponds, mobility can make more sense than installing a dedicated skimmer at every recovery point.
Cart mounted · pallet mounted · mobile extended-reach station
Oil Skimmers offers mobile systems ranging from a compact wheeled cart through forklift-movable pallet systems to a complete Mobile Extended Reach Skimming Station with recovered-oil storage and boom-mounted skimming.
This approach can also be useful where equipment needs to be removed periodically to provide access for cleaning, maintenance or other plant operations.
The system choice becomes much easier when the downstream handling and installation requirements are defined first.
ORTS®, ESS® and many Mobile Oil Skimming Systems use the Brill® free-floating collector-tube principle. Where the oil, grease or process liquid is unusual, collector-tube pickup can be evaluated before the final system is specified.
The Tube Test Kit allows the actual contaminant and process liquid to be evaluated rather than assuming that every floating material behaves the same way.
For selected applications, Filtra can also review whether a proof-of-concept approach is appropriate before a larger system is finalized, subject to technical review and equipment availability.
Selecting a complete oil-skimming system requires more than estimating how much oil is on the surface.
The skimmer, collector-tube configuration, tank, transfer pump, decanting arrangement, controls, mounting and electrical package all need to match the actual process and site.
For European installations, hazardous-area and ATEX requirements should be identified at the beginning of the selection process rather than assumed from US electrical terminology.
Filtra International can review the oil, process water, installation geometry, storage requirements, transfer duty, mobility and environmental conditions before selecting ORTS®, ESS®, a Mobile System or another oil-removal configuration.
Common questions about ORTS®, ESS® and Mobile Oil Skimming Systems.
