Oil / water separator
General Air Products

Air compressors, widely used throughout industry, can produce considerable amounts of oil-contaminated condensate. This contamination must not be discharged directly into open drains, public sewers or natural watercourse.

Oil quickly reduces the dissolved oxygen content of water, which sustains animal and plant life and the bacteria essential for the aerobic digestion of sewage in Water Treatment Plants. As a result, most countries now have environmental laws placing strict limits on the discharge of industrial effluent containing oil.

The low cost, effective solution is a SAO oil/water separator from General Air Products. Installed as part of the compressed air system, it simply reduces the oil concentration in the condensate to permitted levels, so that clean water condensate can discharge safely into the drains. This leaves a relatively small amount of concentrated waste oil to be disposed of by the most economic of legitimate means.