Inventors:
Stephan J. Verosto - Knoxville MD, US
Mario DiValentin - Alexandria VA, US
David O. Ferchau - Mount Laurel NJ, US
Michael Honan - Gig Harbor WA, US
David E. Freshcoln - Pitman NJ, US
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC
International Classification:
B01D 17/028
Abstract:
In-situ cleaning of the bilgewater processing plates of stacks within a treatment tank chamber of a 50-gpm oil/water separator is performed by an injected chemical cleaning agent dispersed by diverted flow of pressurized air introduced into the tank chamber below the plate stacks by emergence of air bubbles from plural branches of an air sparging array system positioned in underlying alignment with crest formations on the processing plates. The air sparging array system consists of an upper and lower tank arrays.