Treatment system for oily and watery sludge with self-cleaning centrifugal separator to reduce the disposal costs

Oil, water and solids can represent 2.5% of marine fuels. Indeed many port authorities use this figure when carrying out ship inspections.

With increasing environmental awareness as well as strict regulations and controls, most operators dispose of this sludge by incineration or by shoreside disposal using contract companies. In either case sludge disposal is becoming an expensive problem for ship owners today.

The Westfalia Separator sludge treatment plant incorporating a specially designed centrifugal separator is capable of reducing the volume of sludge for disposal by up to 90 %. In addition, fuel oil is recovered for re-use and recovered lubricating oil can be used as boiler fuel.