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US005207922A
McFarlan et a1,
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WASTE WATER
5,097,556
3/1992
May 4, 1993
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Date of Patent:
5,207,922
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Appl NO
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603,796
ABSTRACT
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[22] Filed?
oct- 251 1990
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Separator which can have 80, 105 and 200 mesh screens
common portion of the treatment provides sufficient 65 through pipe 30 to a sanitary drain and the oil is col
time in the common portion of the treatment so that
when the effluent is directed to the oil/water separator,
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processed.
When washing articles which produce a nonoily ef
fluent, the articles are washed using any conventional
detergent and the water discharged to pit 12. This is
then sucked up by the sump pump and directed to
shaker screen 14 which ?lters out particulate material
and directs these to solid sludge discharge 21. The aque
ous hot effluent is then passed on to holding tank 22. a 5
Pump 23 then directs this hot effluent as required to the
heat exchanger 15 which pulls or directs heat from the
hot effluent.
Since this is a nonoily effluent, the chemical feed
pump 25 is not activated and no treatment agent is
added via line 26. The effluent directed from the heat
to the oil water separator 17 where the oil will rise to
exchanger 15 is then directed to diverter valve 16 via
the top and be skimmed off or be collected by some
line 28. The shaker screen was suf?cient to bring the
other conventional oil collector and the relatively oil
effluent within the stated requirements of TSS, COD
and BOD and accordingly the diverter valve 16 directs 25 free water will be directed through pipe 30 to the sani
tary drain. Solids remaining in the water prior to being
the effluent through line 31 to a sanitary drain.
discharged in the sanitary drain will fall to the bottom
When a dirty load of shop towels and the like, which
of the oil/ water separator where they will be removed
is expected to produce an oily effluent, is washed, the
articles are washed with a special detergent. This must I by blow-down.
be a detergent which has an emulsi?er which can be
Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate
Silicon Dioxide-Amphorous
10.6%
66.7%
9.2%
2.5%
9.0%
Pelargonic Amphopropionate
2.0%
switch or probe, in the oil water pit the oily effluent will
be the preferential treatment thru the shaker screen 13
50 and other equipment with the non oily water being held
in its own pit 12 until the oily water has been emptied
from the wastewater feed tank.
As shown in FIG. 2, many laundry facilities include a
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water separator;
changer.
3. The method claimed in claim 1 wherein said oily
effluent is produced by washing oily fabric with a deter
gent having a destabilizable emulsi?er;
nonoily effluent.
4. The method claimed in claim 3 wherein said de
stabilizable emulsi?er is a pH, destabilizable emulsi?er
and wherein said emulsion destabilizing agent is an acid.
5. The method claimed in claim 3 wherein said emul
sion destabilizing agent is selected from the group con
ment portion, the shaker screen, removes suspended 25 sisting essentially of sulfuric acid.
solids, thus lowering the BOD and COD of the effluent
6. A method of treating aqueous ef?uent from laun
However, even the nonoily effluent requires this treat
dry where said effluent is alternately an aqueous heated
oily ef?uent having a pH sensitive oil emulsi?er and an
ment. Thus, the sizing of the this apparatus must be such
that it can accommodate all ef?uent from the industrial
aqueous heated nonoily ef?uent said method compris
laundry. But since only a small portion of the effluent 30 ing directing said oily effluent through a particulate
?lter and a heat exchanger;
requires additional treatment, the cost of treatment can
be substantially reduced by having a noncommon treat
adding a pH adjusting substance to said oily effluent
ment apparatus which is used only for oily effluent. This
effective to break down said pH sensitive emulsi
enables the size of this unit to be reduced to one-fourth
?er;
to one-third of the size required to treat all the effluent 35
directing said oily ef?uent to an oil water separator
from the laundry in turn reducing the cost even more.
and separating oil and water from said oily ef?uent
comprising:
comprising;
directing said oily effluent through a particulate ?lter