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Prepared Foods Wastewater Pretreatment
How a specialty prepared foods plant met municipal sewer limits for FOG and TSS with a GTI grease interceptor, ChemClear CT chemical treatment and a PD-50 plate DAF.
Flavoring & Fragrance Wastewater
An international flavorings maker needed to pull natural oils and solids out of 1,000 GPM of process and CIP water. A customized FB separator with Flopak media, drum screen and access platform did the job.
Product newsCoalescing Oil Separation Media
Customer Type: Those with oil water separators or need ows Wastewater: Oils, fuels, vegetable oils, biodiesel, solids Equipment: Oil water…
Fertilizer Plant Water Treatment
A new fertilizer plant needed process water treatment designed alongside its chemical process. We supplied dual trains of separation, flocculation, chemical metering and DAF, plus the facility layout.
API Oil Water Separators for Food Processing
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.
Uranium Mine Water Treatment
Corrosive uranium mine water needed metals and minerals removed. We built the clarifier and pretreatment in polypropylene and paired them with a polypropylene OSe separator for oils and fuels.
Metals & Oils Water treatment
Metals, solids and emulsions in an HVAC manufacturer’s production water called for chemistry first. Lab and on-site jar tests led to a ChemClear CT and slant plate clarifier system with dewatering.
Refinery Oil Water Separator
An international tank terminal needed 10,000 GPM of oil separation. Our TPi design was built as a ten-channel concrete interceptor with wave plate packs and adjustable rotary skimmers.
Vegetable Processing
Potato and broccoli pieces were the problem at a large vegetable processor. An API250 separator with sludge auger and skimmer now removes both floating and sinking solids at 150 GPM.
Solar Farm Heat Transfer Fluid Separation
Therminol heat transfer fluid acts like oil at some temperatures and a solid at others. Lab testing pointed to our OSe separator, which took the oil content from 1,700 mg/L down to 2.4 mg/L.
Decane Octadecane Wastewater Treatment
Years after we installed its separator, a waste hauler’s truck wash found decane and octadecane in its water. ZeoMaxx AC830 filtration brought them to non-detect levels.
Shipbreaking Wastewater Treatment
Breaking up ships for scrap releases bunker fuel, diesel, solids and metals. An equalization tank and OS-64 separator handle the variable load at 110 GPM before filtration.
Industrial Gases Wastewater Treatment
Customer Type: Industrial gases production Wastewater: Oil, ammonia, nitrogen, phosphorus, COD, BOD, TSS Equipment: Pan America Environmental ZeoMaxx…
Product newsOSe Oil Water Separators
Customer Type: Industrial waste water generators Wastewater: Oily waste water Equipment: OSe oil separators and ZeoMaxx Filtration Pan America…
Technical tipWash Water Treatment Design
Customer Type: Wash water generators Wastewater: Vehicle wash facilities Equipment: VEW and ZeoMaxx Filtration Pan America Environmental, Inc…
Technical tippH Probe Maintenance
Customer Type: All types Wastewater: All types requiring pH neutralization Equipment: Pan America Environmental EpH neutralization systems Pan…
Product newspH Neutralization Systems
Customer Type: pH Neutralization systems Wastewater: All types Equipment: Pan America Environmental EpH pH Neutralization Systems The EpH systems…
Technical tipPFAS Treatment
Customer Type: PFAS wastewater treatment systems Wastewater: All types Equipment: Pan America Environmental ZeoMaxx and membrane filtration Pan…
Product newsWater Treatment Systems Customization
Customer Type: Customization of industrial wastewater treatment systems Wastewater: All types Equipment: All Pan America Environmental product lines…
Cullet Water Treatment
Oils and fine glass were causing production problems at seven glass container plants. After visiting every site, we supplied separator systems for each plus piping changes to stop cullet dropout.
Groundwater Remediation Vinyl Chloride
A four-week pilot at an old industrial waste site proved a chemical recipe that removed iron, metals, emulsions and vinyl chloride, letting the site shut down its UV oxidation system.
Product newsDinky DAF Dissolved Air Flotation Systems
Customer Type: Industrial, food production, animal/vegetable processing, many others Wastewater: FOG, petroleum oils/fuels, groundwater, solids, many…
Commercial Grease Interceptor
A brisket cooking line produced 650 gallons of fats, oils and grease water every 90 minutes. A continuous batch system built around our GTI grease interceptor and a DAF now cuts the FOG load to sewer.
Product newsAPI Oil Water Separator Designs and Options
Customer Type: Oil Refinery, produced water, industrial wastewater Wastewater: Produced water, refinery wastestreams, oils, fuels, solids Equipment…
Vehicle Wash Water Recycling at a National Park
A remote national park maintenance shop wanted to reuse its wash water. Jar testing, chemical pretreatment, a Clarisep and ZeoMaxx filtration now recycle about 15 GPM for washing.
Whey Production Wastewater
On-site jar testing set the chemistry for a whey producer’s 125 GPM of wastewater and CIP water. The result: a stainless DAF system with chemical pretreatment, started up and staff trained by our team.
Tank Farm Stormwater Runoff
Stormwater and tank bottom water at a petroleum tank farm in Indonesia now runs through an OS-720 separator sized for 1,800 GPM, with startup and training from our team.
Product newsMobile Water Treatment Systems
Customer Type: Sources with oily water contaminated wastewater. Wastewater: Process water with petroleum oils and fuels, natural oils and variety of…
Product newsVehicle Washwater Treatment
The Pan America VEW Vehicle Wash treatment systems can be configured for treating wash water from train wash, car wash, truck wash, aircraft wash and…
Locomotive Rebuilding Washwater Treatment
Engine and chassis wash water at a locomotive rebuilder carried oils, fuels, metals and organics. A 70 GPM train of separation, chemistry, DAF and filtration treats it before discharge.
Product newsSTAX Flocculation Systems
Customers using our SPC Slant Plate Clarifiers and DAF Dissolved Air Flotation systems apply our STAX inline flocculation systems to implement…
Gold Mine Water Treatment
Strong brine at a gold mine rules out ordinary steel. An all-plastic OSe-36 separator on a stainless skid removes fuel oils and solids from 75 GPM of brine water.
Automotive Parts Manufacturing
An international OEM parts maker sent us samples from its stamping and machining plant. In-house jar testing and a site visit produced a complete treatment train, from equalization to filter press.
Telephone Pole Preservation Solution Treatment
Preservation solution waste at a utility pole plant separates into three layers in one tank. Our PLC system detects each layer as the tank drains and changes the chemical dose to match.
Slant Plate Clarifier System
Copper and other metals had to come out of a 200 GPM process stream. Two parallel stainless slant plate clarifier trains let the plant run full flow on either train or turn down with production.
Groundwater Treatment
Zinc, barium, lead, nickel, chrome, BTEX and solvents all turned up in groundwater at a former manufacturing site. We designed the treatment facility and supplied every piece of equipment.
Industrial Wastewater Treatment For Fun & Profit
A facility that treats other companies’ waste for a fee needs flexibility. Bypasses and recombinations of separators, chemistry, DAF, filtration and a bioreactor let it handle whatever arrives.
Military Vehicle Wash Rack
Four parallel wash bays at a Marine base in South Korea each run a container-mounted VEW system at 50 GPM, with Mudblasters, recycle pressurization and central controls.
Landing Gear Manufacturing
A landing gear plant expansion needed heavy metals, TSS and organics removed from 120 GPM of process water. Working from the engineers’ jar test report, we supplied the full clarifier, filtration and dewatering system.
Power Generation Water Treatment
A power plant discharging cooling water to a river wanted protection against rare oil spills. Two gravity-flow concrete separators with Flopak media packs handle 4,000 and 9,600 GPM streams.
Automotive Engine Rebuilding
A worldwide engine manufacturer standardized on our separators for rebuilding shops in the US and abroad, with each OS and OSe package sized from 5 to 75 GPM and fitted to the site.
Produced Water Treatment
Before produced water from fracking is deep well injected it is treated and tested. An OS separator with pumpouts and datalogging controls handles 1,000 GPM continuously at this disposal plant.
Machining Coolant Batch Treatment
Machining coolant mixed with cleaning and paint solutions used to be treated by hand. An automated batch treatment system now handles 750+ gallons a day for sewer discharge with far less labor.
Bakery Facility Wastewater
A bakery making 75 different products needed treatment for about 75 GPM of wastewater, in a building with no single open space. We split the system between an elevated deck and the ground floor.
Bilge Oily Water Treatment Systems
A shore-side facility at a large naval base treats 250 GPM of bilge and tank runoff water using our integrated BOWTS design, from tanks and pumps to chemical metering and controls.
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