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Food Processing: Three API Oil Water Separators

Three customized API separators now handle everything from barge wash water to flour settling for a major food producer, with tank volume that can be reused where water quality allows.

Industry
Food & Beverage
Flow / scale
Barge wash to flour settling
Main equipment
Three API-100-V oil water separators
Built by
Pan America Environmental, USA
Food Processing: Three API Oil Water Separators

01The project

Food Processing with API Oil Water Separators

Pan America Environmental, Inc. recently provided three customized API-100-V oil water separator systems to a major international food producer for treating a variety of wastewater from barge wash water to flour settling. The system designs allow the operators to directly reuse the tank volume through flow balancing for site operations where water quality allows water reuse thereby reducing water and peripheral equipment costs.

With floating and sinking solids and oils the API with V-hopper, sludge auger and surface drag skimmer was the perfect solution for a variety of issues. PLC/HMI control for pumps, skimmer with feedback and other devices for DCS tie in completes the package.

02Equipment supplied

  • Three API-100-V oil water separators
  • V-hopper with sludge auger
  • Surface drag skimmer
  • PLC/HMI controls with DCS tie-in

03Have a similar project?

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04Project photos

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Originally published · Updated October 2026

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