Name of Client:

Ecowerks LLC

Name of Project:

Oily effluent emulsion treatment plant

Location:

Port Arthur, Texas, USA

Type of Industry:

Oil Reclamation

Year Commenced:

2007

Year Completed:

2008

Brief Description:

Ecowerks operates a centralised waste water treatment facility catering to the oil industry; receiving, separating oils and sludge and treating oily effluent & emulsions to a city sewer quality. The treatment plant was designed, manufactured, installed, tested & commissioned by SWA using SWA staff from Australia & China and local subcontractors for site electrical works. The plant had substantial stainless steel pipe work (pipe & tube) & was designed to withstand hurricanes which it did soon after commissioning. The plant was a 30 m3/h emulsion breaking plant which had 4 different chemical emulsion breaking processes and could operate at various flow rates from 5 to 30 m3/h. The plant including Receivals, screening, primary separation of sludges, primary recovery of oil, oil separation, chemical emulsion breaking, DAF & activated sludge biological treatment. The control system was designed by SWA and used OPTO 22 PLC & SCADA using touch screen PC controls with remote monitoring & control capability.