
HELP! My Oil Water Separator (or CPI Separator) is Constantly Clogging!
These common OWS issues are the result of some market trends that have developed over the years: Oil Water Separators are often an afterthought at large facilities. They are frequently used to treat storm water and plant run-off which are operations that don’t get the attention of engineers and operators nearly as much as production equipment (which actually makes you money) or even wastewater treatment (if flows for the two processes are separated).Conventional CPI Media is designed for oil separation only! They have long slanted sections which don’t properly shed separated material and very small spacing between their separator tubes, plates, corrugations, or whatever each design touts as the latest and greatest configuration. But guess what…most plants don’t separate solids from oils before an oil/water or CPI separator, they just send the solids…