Floating Drum Skimmer
the world’s most efficient floating oil skimmer

Steel Mill Oil Skimming Application

These drum skimmers float on the surface, sealed flotation makes it unsinkable. The drums are motor driven (by air or hydraulics) and turn slowly attracting the oil to its surface and rotating around to the wiper blade which scrapes the floating oil off and it runs into the sump area, where it is picked up by pump suction and transferred to storage.

These drum skimmers are the most efficient and the most selective floating skimmers available anywhere, due to the large surface area that is exposed to the floating oil. Easy to install and operate. Drum skimmers need only 3" of water to float in. Great for heavy industrial or spill work and is the tool of choice for several spill contractors and facility owners since it is so fast and does not give you much water to deal with. Readily skims light or heavy floating oils, even works in ice — any weather.

“The SteelMax skimmer has done a consistently thorough job of removing hydraulic oil from our Rolling Mill Scale Pits. It has collected enough oil for resale from the water system to cover 50% of its initial cost within one year.”   — D.B., Plant Mechanical Engineer, Steel Dynamics Inc.

STATE OF THE ART!

Takes heavy abuse-rugged & almost bullet proof very reliable. Requires a pump to remove skimmed oil. Used extensively in the steel and refinery industries. Experience helps in this—call us. Let’s talk about your application.

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Sizes from 2- 200 GPM floating oil recovery - Set it in the water and go!

Steel Mill Oil Skimmers

Steel and oil and water — who says they don’t mix?

Different types of oil skimmers and how they work.

In the steel industry, oil in and on water is a constant. Bless these steel guys. By the very nature of their operations, oil gets spilled or leaked regularly, resulting in lots of floating oil and it needs to be removed. Call!

RULE #1 — Shut it down! Never!
RULE #2 — Keep it running till the downturn. Always!

“The SteelMax skimmer has done a consistently thorough job of removing hydraulic oil from our Rolling Mill Scale Pits. It has collected enough oil for resale from the water system to cover 50% of its initial cost within one year.”   — D.B., Plant Mechanical Engineer, Steel Dynamics Inc.

The steel mill oil skimming applications are the toughest. The equipment has to be rugged and simple enough to run without any attention or maintenance. There is simply not enough manpower to stay on top of it. It will usually be ignored until it breaks!

We have developed specialty skimmers —
hardened specifically for the steel industry!

That’s where we come in! We have a goodly amount of experience and equipment in the steel industry. We know how to match the application to the correct and appropriate technology, which often means:

"We’ve already screwed that one up."
But we learned how to do it right!

Skim: Morgoil™, hydraulic, lube, rolling emulsion, animal fat

As you know, the "steel guys" are a shy bunch, so pictures are rare, BUT the guys in steel do talk and even sometimes share information. What an industry!

We have ALL TYPES and technologies of oil skimmers and separation equipment for removing oil from water—or vice versa. WE LOVE OIL!

Got OIL? — Call now! (314) 579-9755

Approved vendor for United States Steel (USS), Mittal Steel, Steel Dynamics, Gallatin, Inland, ISG, National, Arizona, Florida, and more.

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For oil in scale pits, clarifiers, API’s, retention ponds, basement ponds, sewers, sloughs, oil/water separators, ditches — what have you. We’ve been there and have a different way of working it.
We’ve already screwed it up — so you don’t have to.

• Want experience and proven results or a glossy brochure?
• Need skimmers that will work in cold weather—all winter long? YUP—we got em’. In addition to the oil skimmers and oil/water separators, we have micro bubbler aerator devices to make oil float faster in less space than you have available.
• We can help get oil out of your water.
• We can help get the water out of your oil!
• Got Morgoil™ tanks with too much water? We can help!
• Got oil entrained in your water and not enough room to get it floating so it can be skimmed and removed? We can do that!
• Got oil in a moving water stream—and need it removed? We do that!

If you want to keep up or catch up with oil removal — call now!!

Specialty skimmers include: floating drum or disc types, rope mops, belt and tube types and floating weirs

Steel customers include: Acme, Bethlehem, Chapperal, Ispat Inland, ISG, USS, Great Lakes, Granite City, NAS, Northstar, WCI, Weirton, LTV, National, Keystone, Laclede, AK, McClouth, Geneva, Nucor, Chicago, Steel Tech, Heidtman, Roll Coaters, Oil Technology, OilTech, Gallatin, half of these are gone or renamed now.

QUESTIONS?   CALL NOW! EMAIL: info@skimoil.com

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