Our mobile oil reclamation units are 5-10 times more efficient than those of our competitors. We call this the “the CHEM-ECOL difference”. Our unique technology for water removal speeds up the purification process significantly, saving our clients time and expense, while producing a purified oil product that has been restored to “like-new” quality.

Our mobile lubricant purification service is ideally suited to a system that has become contaminated, but is still operating. Even if it can be fully shut down and its reservoir drained, it normally makes more sense to clean the oil on-site, while the system continues to operate normally.

Cleaning the system while it operates allows the entire system to be cleaned – not just the reservoir. A large hydraulic system may have 50% of its volume trapped in piping, pumps and accumulators. In this case, draining and replacing the oil in the reservoir will only replace part of the oil in the system. The other part is still dirty and/or wet.

There are many reasons why contamination of industrial oils will build up to the point where it affects the operation of the unit. These include:

• Leaking coolers

• Dirt build-up in the oil

• Additive depletion and breakdown of industrial fluids

• Particles from component wear

• Overuse of the oil

• Moisture condensation from temperature cycling

• High-temperature operation

Any of the above may cause improper operation of the hydraulic or lubricant system.

Our mobile lubricant recovery equipment can hook up to the problem reservoir and re-circulate the oil at high speed, removing dirt and moisture and blending in replacement additives. The mobile units perform this function very efficiently, allowing our client's industrial equipment to maintain normal production throughout.

Generally, because clean oil returned to the tank mixes with dirty oil, the total system volume is processed about five times. This means that a five-thousand-gallon reservoir, for example, will require a total of 25,000 gallons of oil to be processed through our equipment.

Mobile treatment removes water and most solid particles – even the extremely fine particles that will pass through most machine filters. The purification treatment is suitable for most hydraulic oils, even where more than 50% of the additives have been consumed.

Our very efficient vacuum dehydrators remove water. Dirt and broken-down additives are removed by passing through a series of filters, each stage finer than the one before, until we reach cleanliness specifications.

Standard flow rates are between 1000 and 3000 gallons per hour during dehydration. Filtration and dehydration speeds can be increased, if needed, to up to 6000 gallons per hour. This allows very large systems to be purified rapidly.

External booster pumps and add-on filtration allow us to increase flow rates to 12,000 gallons per hour and upwards, as required. These flow rates are ideally suited to flushing “new construction” systems and piping modules.

To restore the oil to like-new condition, additives are blended in continuously during the process. The amount of additives is determined by analyzing samples of the dirty oil before the mobile unit arrives on-site.

Following treatment, the oil will be as clean as – if not cleaner than – most new product delivered by major oil companies.