En el steel manufacturing industry, waterborne oil is a pervasive issue. Mill managers, maintenance managers and process engineers are under pressure to keep facilities up and running, and on budget.
Sin embargo, la naturaleza de la fabricación de acero presenta sus propios desafíos únicos para la eliminación eficaz de aceite.
Es un proceso continuo de alto capital, que es exigente con el equipo y utiliza grandes cantidades de agua.
Eliminar eficazmente el aceite del agua no solo ayuda a que las plantas funcionen mejor en general, sino que puede ser beneficioso de muchas maneras.
Consider these four top benefits of removing oil from water and coolant fluid during steel manufacturing processes:
1. Prevenir que el aceite deteriore el líquido refrigerante reduce el consumo de agua y
reduce las tarifas de tratamiento de aguas residuales.
Producing one ton of steel, which is what the average automobile requires, can consume more than 75,000 gallons of water, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Across all manufacturing industries, the push for water conservation and recycling initiatives is escalating. Fees for inadequately treated water are increasing, too, as aging municipal sewage treatment plants struggle to process industrial effluent.
2. Evitar que se acumulen residuos de lubricante y fluido hidráulico en
production machinery and filtration systems—and the steel itself—avoids expensive repairs and costly production delays.
To keep machinery running optimally, an oil-removal solution such as tube-based oil skimming that can operate continuously is the best way to prevent lubricants and fluids from building up on critical machinery and the finished product.
3. Capturing tramp oil before it collects inside cooling towers reduces plant maintenance
costos.
Después de instalar una esquilmadora tubular de aceite, a steel tube manufacturing company in Warren, Ohio, was able to remove tramp lubricating oil from a soluble-oil coolant tank. Before installing the tube skimmer, the 1,000-gallon tank had to be recharged once a month with a ratio of 100 gallons of soluble oil to 900 gallons of water.
The tube skimmer helped to eliminate the tramp oil contamination problem and remove 55 gallons of tramp oil per week, which the company then sold, resulting in thousands of dollars in revenue.
4. Eliminar el aceite antes de que pueda contaminar el agua en pozos de prueba de presurización se extiende el
vida del agua, evita resultados de prueba erróneos y protege los delicados sensores contra daños.
Cada vez que se bombea, se sumerge o se mueve el petróleo, se está convirtiendo de grandes gotitas de petróleo a petróleo más pequeño
gotas, y eso dificulta la separación del aceite residual del agua.
Removing waste oil closest to the source ensures you collect oil in larger droplets—before it can be pumped, dropped into a pond or in some other way “emulsified.” Emulsified oil is inherently more difficult and costly to remove. It’s easier and more efficient to skim oil than to pump oily water from tank to tank.
Recurso gratuito: Cómo la eliminación de aceite ayuda a las acerías a mejorar sus resultados
Para conocer más sobre los beneficios de eliminar el aceite de las aguas residuales y los fluidos refrigerantes en la industria del acero, download the white paper, “How Oil Removal Helps Steel Mills Improve the Bottom Line” or to find out which type of oil skimmer is best for your facility’s needs, contacta a Oil Skimmers, Inc. hoy.
