Treating Challenging Oil Slop and Sludge Waste
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Treating Challenging Oil Slop & Sludge Waste Elgin Separation Solutions

Treating Challenging Oil Slop and Sludge Waste Today’s oil & gas industry faces a number of environmental and waste management responsibilities. As the responsibilities and regulations have become more complex, so too has the complexity of wastes being generated. Today’s drilling contractors, drilling fluid service providers, refineries, and storage facilities are plagued by a combination of end-of-life drilling fluid wastes, slop-oil sludge, mud pit solids, and tank bottoms. Each with its own set of challenges that call for unique, tailored solutions. There is an estimated nine billion...

Innovation Through Team Work Elgin has been designing and manufacturing customized chemicallyassisted mechanical separation systems for decades. By utilizing Elgin’s own line of high-speed decanter centrifuges at the heart of these systems and its unique history working with waste water treatment polymers, Elgin has been able to develop unique and highly customized waste management solutions for customers in over 20 countries. SAS develops unique, highly effective microemulsion chemicals used for the cleaning of drilling mud, the treatment of oil drilling waste, refinery waste, oil sludge...

combining a fully containerized chemically-assisted centrifuge and a proprietary microemulsion chemistry, complex oily sludge can be reduced by up to 90%, disposal costs can be reduced typically by 50%, while oil and water can be recovered from the process. This can also increase storage capacity on site and reduce the need for expensive tank cleaning with associated high disposal costs. Conventional Treatment System Failures At the heart of most treatment systems is a centrifuge, normally a decanter centrifuge. The centrifuge can be found in every corner of the oil and gas industry. When...

Oily sludge generally contains crude oil, water and solid particles in various proportions depending on its origin and the quality of the original crude oil. The oil element is made up of a wide variety of compounds that are classified into free oil, waxes and asphaltenes. It is the waxes and asphaltenes that, under normal circumstances, act as solid components and are not removed in conventional oil/solids separation techniques such as non-chemically enhanced centrifugation. By breaking the oily sludge down into layers with the use of SAS mircoemulsions and applying high G-force through a...

Compared to alternative technologies, the Elgin SAS Sludge Treatment System has a number of operational advantages: Process Characteristics Elgin / SAS Sludge Treatment System Sole Chemical / Polymer Treatment System Thermal Treatment System Sole Mechanical Treatment System Produces Stackable Solids Maximizes Oil Recovery Continuous Treatment Process Immediate Results No Need of pH Adjustment No Thermal Input Required Creates Three-Way Split of Oil, Water and Solids For more details about how the Elgin SAS Sludge Treatment System may be able to provide you and your team immediate value,...