Technical Bulletin #43

Organoclay Removes Oil
When is OILSORB organoclay spent?

Check with the new mobile oil detector from Turner Designs!

Organoclays are the best available technology to remove oils which skimmers and oil/water separators cannot remove. Organoclays protect your activated carbon which
can be ruined by small droplets of oil which can be removed by organoclay. Unprotected activated carbon media will have a drastically shortened working time
when carbon encounters oils in microscopic droplets.

hen the droplets hit the carbon particle, it spreads on the carbon’s exterior surface and creates a barrier to the interior of the particle. Thus, most of the adsorption capacity of the carbon particle coated with a thin film of oil, shortens activated carbon’s working capacity and time. The solution is organoclay protection.

Putting Biomin organoclay in front of the carbon and behind the oil skimmer provides the best solution for most oily water problems. New solvent free oil monitoring method Biomin wants to let you know about a new solvent free test method to determine oil in water offered by Turner Inc. You can get more information from Turner or by contacting us.

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