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Site Specific Solutions

With combined experience of over one-hundred years, Industrial Equipment's staff
has the experience to help you with your cleaning, environmental or water quality needs.
We make site specific recommendations and create solutions to save you both time and money.

Solutions Customized to Meet Your Specific Needs

We help our customer design and build a wash site that meets their needs and is Environmentally Friendly.  
Each customer has specific treatment needs that we strive to understand and develop an appropriate wash solution for.

In some cases the treatment system can treat the water once and deliver it to sewer.  This type of system has less maintenance and sometimes has no filters.

Others will need a full recycle system to treat their water.  In this type of system the wash water is being used from a storage tank.  This water is typically not suitable for a final rinse for the outside of vehicles, however it works well for many other applications.

General Treatment Objective

The objective of our design solutions is to create a washing environment that will keep the maintenance of the water treatment equipment to a minimum.  In addition, we believe in keeping all of the solids above ground so that a pumping company is not needed on a regular basis.  A well designed wash area will incorporate several key designs into the site.  This will extend filter life and reduce any hazardous waste that would be produced by the treatment system.

Conceptual Water Treatment Design

The conceptual wash pad design (shown below) depicts just one of our basic designs.  The design shown would be suitable for a customer with up to a moderate solids load and that has sewer available.  The system shown is a single-pass sewer discharge system. 

Washing is done with fresh water.  The water treatment system removes solids, oils, grease, and other hydrocarbons before delivering it to the sewer.  All solids are above ground and easily removed without having water hauled.  The system shown can have either manual or automatic cone tank decanting and media filter backflushing.  Typically a manual system would need tanks decanted weekly and the media filter backflushed monthly.  We offer affordable service contracts to take care of this and other maintenance needs.  Typical service is done once a month or once every other month.

The equipment is washed using a modern low volume, hot, high pressure washer (6). A wash pad is designed to keep most of the solids out of the collection system for easy removal.  Typically solids collected at this stage can be considered non-hazardous. The water that comes off of the wash pad flows through a collection trough which removes solids and other debris.   Removable Weirs slow down the water to allow solids to settle, but allow easy clean out.  Lava Rock Baskets can be used to remove floating debris.  The trough is covered by light weight easy to remove Diamond Grip Grating. Floating oil is removed by a Belt Oil Skimmer before any pump emulsifies it, making it harder to remove. A Sump (or lift Station) (1) uses a high quality stainless steel sump pump to deliver water to the rest of the system which is above ground. An above ground, cone bottom, Oil-Water Separator (2) further consolidates the oil settles out solids.  These solids can be removed by simply opening the valves on the bottom, which can be automated. The waste water is then processed by a water treatment system.  The system shown uses a Biological Treatment System, such as a Watermaze CLB (3). Once the major solids and oils are removed, the waste water flows into a transfer tank (4) which stores just enough water for the pump on the Media Filtration System (5). This media filter adsorbs hydrocarbons and acts as both a final polish and a safety net in case a large slug of oil makes it through the system somehow. If no water can leave the site, a closed loop recycle system and/or an Evaporator could be used. In a recycle system, the clean water would then be stored for reuse by the hot, high pressure washer (6). Even recycle systems must have a way to get rid of excess water.  Excess water can come from garden hose, rain, or leaks.  It is also desirable to replace a small percentage of fresh water on a regular basis.  This will keep the recycled water fresher.  An Evaporator allows you to do this on a daily basis.  (Note: Both recycle systems and sewer discharge systems should have a cover to limit rain influence.)	Typical Wash Pad Installation Typical Equipment Room
Photo Gallery and Slide Show of some of our recently installed Waste Water Treatment Systems.