Oily Water Separators
As a seafarer on a merchant ship or as a ship manager/owner of a vessel, one of the biggest nightmares is that of any kind of oil pollution accident on a ship.
A ship produces oil and water mixture on a daily basis which needs to be separated from each other before discharging the dirty water out of the ship using equipment such as an oily water separator.
As the name indicates, the function of an oil-water separator is to separate the maximum amount of oil particles from the water to be discharged overboard from the engine room or cargo hold bilges, oil tanks and oil-contaminated spaces. As per maritime regulations, the oil content in the water processed from the OWS must be less than 15 parts per million of oil.
