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SmartSkim® Systems are open channel gravity coalescing separators. That is, they eliminate the maintenance because there is no coalescing media to clean and replace when fouled and plugged.
The heart of our Crossflow System is the plate pack. The plate pack creates 40 square feet of non-clog separation surfaces in a 4 square foot footprint.
Designed for both oil and floating solids. Plates are on 0.50” centers and will not clog like coalescers.
Plate pack is easily removable for periodic separator maintenance. Tank is angle bottomed for easy flushing, eliminating the need to shovel out.
The SmartSkim® Crossflow is all stainless steel. It doesn’t use any consumables. It works by gravity only. Skimmed fluids are slowly pumped across the separation plates. Oil rises and is captured below the angled plates, then directed out of the flow to a capture zone. At the same time, solids in the skimmed fluids settle out on the angled plates by gravity and fall out of the flow to a capture zone. Cleaned fluids discharge at the end of the plate pack.
- 1. Separator inlet.
- 2. Flow control valve.
- 3. Transfer pump. Suction side connects to tank mounted skimmer. Discharge pumps through separator.
- 4. Air filter regulator.
- 5. Separator gravity discharge line.
- 6. Oil discharge port.
- 7. Solids discharge port
- 8. Separator lid.
- Captured oil accumulates inside the separator, building an oil mat on the fluids. The distance between the fluid level and the oil discharge port is adjustable using the adjustable discharge weir. As oil builds a mat, it dries out, shedding water content by gravity. At the air oil interface, dry oil gravity drains from the separator to a capture drum.
- 9. Oil discharge port.
- 10. Control knob for adjustable height weir which sets fluid level inside the tank.
- 11. Adjustable height weir.
- 12. Shows captured oil just beginning to accumulate. As the oil mat grows above the fluid surface, source fluids separate and gravity drain from the captured oil. Dry oil, at the air-oil interface reaches the discharge port and falls out to a capture drum or treatment.
- 13. Shows an oil mat discharging from the separator at the air oil interface.
- 14. Cleaned fluids continuously drain by gravity back to the source tank.
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