Above Ground Oil Water Separators 750 gpm - 1000 gpm (175 - 225 m3/h)

As the flow rates become larger, the importance of dedicated settling (solids) and rising (oil) zones become critical for a non-fouling design. Not only do the Chimney Zones™ process oils and solids out of the coalescer, they naturally create an break in the coalescer plate, providing shorter plate widths in the flow direction. Shorter plate widths yield a low "equivalent diameter" which is a measure of how a coalescer plate configuration will perform with solids present. In a large separator with a standard-type coalescer, a solids particle entering the coaleser, say at the upper left-hand portion of the coalescer in the entry area view, will have to slide down a coalescer plate for up to 6-10 feet (or even more). It continues along until it exits the plate pack at some lower left portion of the coalescer where it is to be processed out of the coalescer (theoretically). With a plate length that long, and the nooks and crannies in most typical coalescer designs, the likelihood of fouling increases dramatically. Our short plate-width design reduces the fouling problems significantly.