FS Industrial: Client News & Reviews

Customer:
EDIBLE OILS LTD
   
Location:
 Belvedere, Kent, UK
   
Installation Date:
 6th November 2009
   
Industry Sector:
 Food oil bottling
   
Pre-install Issues:
 The client uses very little water in their bottling process and as a result the waste water is very heavily contaminated with FOG and has a COD content of over 19,000ppm. They were unable to discharge any trade effluent to drain. Thames Water refused to grant a discharge license until the client installed a pre-treatment system to reduce the contaminant levels - FOG below 100ppm and COD below 2000ppm. Without a discharge license all waste water was being removed from site by tanker and IBC to a sister plant 5 miles away.
   
Solution:
A 6.5 litre per second Fatstrippa was installed with a low shear Mono pump for effluent delivery. Another Mono pump tranfers the separated oils to an oil collection tank.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Result:
Following installation of the Fatstrippa oil separation and removal unit, our client is now able to treat their waste, on site, to the standards required by Thames Water. The discharge license application is being processed. Our client is also recovering merchantable waste oil at the rate of 1 to 2 tonnes per week.
 
 


Customer:
HILL BISCUITS LTD
   
Location:
 Ashton under Lyme, Lancashire, UK
   
Installation Date:
 16th May 2009
   
Industry Sector:
 Biscuit manufacture
   
Pre-install Issues:
 The client has experienced drainage issues, from a combination of solidified palm oil and flour, for a considerable time; the consequent drain jetting and waste removal, have been a persistant and unnecessary cost to the business. The client has a small two-stage grease trap in the wash-down location inside the factory that has obvious complications for the adjacent production area.
   
Solution:

A 6.5 litre per second Fatstrippa was installed with a low shear Mono pump for effluent delivery. The two sections of the grease trap were isolated and the primary section utilised as a pump well from where effluent is drawn from the mid point via a dip tube.


Result:
The effluent is passed through the Fatstrippa which efficiently removes larger debris and any oils present. The processed effluent is the passed through a flow meter before returning by gravity to the secondary stage of the original trap and onward to drain. The lower part of the primary section of the grease trap now collects the heavy flour which is emptied on a planned basis. The calibrated flow meter allows the client to confirm the actual amount of water being discharged rather than simply accept the water authority approximation. As a consequence the drainage system will now be free from fat and flour which will yield considerable savings in both time and money for the client. Also the client will now only pay for the waste water actually discharged.


Customer:
 CADBURY SCHWEPPES


Location:
 Bristol, UK


Installation Date:
 10th December 2005


Industry Sector:
 Manufacture of chocolate confectionary


Pre-install Issues:
 The particular issue for this site was the contamination of waste water with Palm Oil used in the production process. The oil was passing through the conventional grease traps and contaminating the waste water plant. The building at this site is a listed 19th century mill where chocolate has been produced for over 100 years; partly as a consequence, the drainage system is easily overloaded.


Solution:
 Trials were held using a standard restaurant Fatstrippa, these proved successful in removing the oil contamination to less than 60ppm. Subsequent to this we designed and manufactured a 6.5 litre per second Fatstrippa, specifically for this site, which included a heated oil valve and specialised filters.


Result:
 This Industrial Fatstrippa was successful in removing the palm oil to below 60ppm and has relieved the pressure on the drainage system and the effluent plant.


Customer:
 KETTLEBY FOODS


Location:
 Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, UK


Installation Date:
 29th August 2004


Industry Sector:
 Production of Ready Meals


Pre-install Issues:
 The client boils minced pork and beef in large pressure vessels before combining with other ingredients. The resulting effluent from these vessels has a high fat content (approx 12%), the client was settling the effluent in these vessels prior to skimming the worst of the oil contamination with a manually operated vacuum pump and lance, the removed effluent was transferred to IBC containers and disposed of; this had a cost of around £50 per tonne for shipping and dumping.


Solution:
 
The client wanted a solution which would automatically remove the oils from the waste water thereby enabling faster turnaround of the cooking vessels, reduced waste charges and income from the recovered fats and oils. A specially manufactured Fatstrippa unit, to handle 10 litres per second of flow, was installed with integral oil container and pump to transfer the recovered oils and fats via a trace heated line to a heated storage vessel.


Result:
 The Fatstrippa is removing the waste fats and oils from the effluent to below 100ppm whilst transferring in excess of 5 tonnes of oils and fats per week to the storage vessel. This oil is achieving an income of around £1-1.5k per week. The cooking vessels now have a faster turnaround between batches therefore helping with the efficiency of the operations. The Fatstrippa is controlled via a logic panel with process management indicators. The whole process happens automatically and without human interface.