Oil skimmer

Details Oil skimmer Oil skimmer

1993-03-29

1994-05-24

Upton, Christopher

Liquid purification or separation

With movable support

Float

210923, C02F 140

Patent

active

053146182

ABSTRACT:
A single drum skimmer and a weir skimmer for recovering all types of oil from a surface of a body of water. An aluminum, high density polyethylene lined drum, floated by adjustable pontoons is rotated clockwise by a hydraulic drive motor, thus drawing the oil layer on top of the water, under and up over the drum to a high density polyethylene scraper blade where it is scraped off into a collection box. The oil runs to the corners of a collection box where it is suctioned off through suction hoses to a camlock "tee" fitting. The oil travels through a main suction hose to a peristaltic master pump which provides suction and discharge of oil from the skimmer to a vacuum dehydrator. An open topped, adjustable reservoir/weir collector has an opening in the front panel which may be opened for weir skimming, and closed for drum skimming.

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