
Water & Wastewater Treatment Clarifiers and Separators
Water & Wastewater Treatment Clarifiers and Separators
Does your plant need to treat a contaminated liquid stream?
Does your plant need to treat a contaminated liquid stream?
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Suspended (TSS) & dissolved (TDS) solids
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Metals precipitation & reduction
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Oil/FOG separation & recovery
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Ammonia & VOC stripping
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Mobile water treatment & rentals
Monroe Environmental designs and builds a broad range of water and wastewater systems and equipment for eliminating and minimizing a wide spectrum of pollutants from virtually all types of water and wastewater sources and applications.
Have technical questions about water & wastewater treatment systems?
Monroe Environmental designs and builds a broad range of water and wastewater systems and equipment for eliminating and minimizing a wide spectrum of pollutants from virtually all types of water and wastewater sources and applications.
Have technical questions about water & wastewater treatment systems?
Monroe’s Water & Wastewater Treatment Systems & Equipment
Water & Wastewater Treatment Applications & Process Experience
Monroe Environmental has extensive experience with a wide variety of applications and processes for water & wastewater treatment. Click on a pollutant or process below to learn more about our approach to treating these contaminants.
Suspended & dissolved solids removal is required for nearly every water treatment application across every industry. Many physical and chemical characteristics as specific gravity, rise/settling rates, particle size, and chemical composition must be evaluated in order to select the correct technology for solids reduction.
Chemical treatment is a commonly used in conjunction with clarification, separation, and filtration to enhance solids removal. It is often required to precipitate dissolved solids and/or form floc that will more readily settle within a given liquid stream.
Monroe Environmental specializes in gravity separation of solids from liquid streams and offers a variety of clarification and separation technologies such as:
- Circular Clarifiers & Thickeners
- Lamella Plate Vertical Clarifiers
- Horizontal Plate Clarifiers
- Plate Settlers
- Sludge Collectors
- X-Flo™ Mobile Clarifiers
- API Separators
- Custom Clarifiers & Separators
Contact a Monroe Applications Engineer to get assistance with selecting the correct technology for your application.
Monroe Environmental has supplied countless metals removal systems across a variety of industries using the following technologies:
Oil separation is a critical wastewater treatment step required in many applications and industries. The physical and chemical properties of the oil should be carefully evaluated in order to correctly apply the various treatment technologies that exist. FOG refers to “fats, oils, and grease” and is a common designation and regulatory target in the food industry.
Recovered oil often has residual value if it can be re‑used or re‑purposed in a secondary market. Therefore, “separation for waste” versus “separation for recovery” treatment objectives are evaluated according to different cost/benefit principles.
In some cases, oil separation can be accomplished simultaneously with solids settling, however this is not always the case.
Monroe Environmental technologies for oil separation, skimming, and recovery include:
- API Separators
- Circular Clarifiers & Thickeners
- Horizontal Plate Clarifiers
- X-Flo™ Mobile Clarifiers
- Belt Type Oil Skimmers
- Custom Clarifiers & Separators (including CPI Separators, DAFs, etc.)
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) such as TCE, DCE, BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylene, xylene), and others are commonly found in groundwater, industrial wastewater, and other contaminated liquid streams.
Monroe Environmental utilizes the following for ammonia and VOC reduction:
Monroe Environmental offers mobile clarifiers and separators for these applications and any others where permanent installation is not feasible or desired. Our systems include:
The X-Flo Mobile Clarifier a highly optimized gravity separator which combines solids settling, oil separation, and sludge handling in a single, convenient mobile tank. Learn More
Value-Added Engineering, On-Site, and Support Services
Monroe also offers a variety of engineering, assessment, evaluation, and design services to help engineers, operators, and plant personnel get the most out of their wastewater treatment systems.
- Clarifier/Separator evaluations
- API Separator evaluations
- Settling test/jar testing
- Treatability studies

Auxiliary Equipment, Components, & Packaged Systems
In addition to providing water and wastewater clarifiers and separators, Monroe offers an array of equipment, components, and devices typically needed for enabling a complete turnkey installation. These include but are not limited to the following:
- Control and instrumentation systems
- Chemical storage and feed systems
- Equalization and storage tanks
- Dissolved air floatation
- Sludge handling & dewatering systems
- Filtration & polishing systems
- Access platforms, ladders, stairways, and walkways
- Pumps, piping, valves, and fittings
Technical and Engineering Support Services
- Evaluations and troubleshooting of existing systems and problems
- Assessments for new and replacement systems
- Environmental permitting and compliance assistance
- System sizing and general arrangement drawings
- Mechanical, electrical and structural requirements
- PLC programming and HMI interfacing
- Cost estimating and budgeting
- Testing and water quality analysis
- And more
Have technical questions about water & wastewater treatment systems?
Industries Served
Glass & Plastics
Plating & Finishing
And more
Resources & Literature
Recent Case Studies
Water | Circular Clarifier for Steel Mill Upgrade
Monroe Environmental saves steel mill $145,000 on clarifier rebuild/retrofit for blast furnace wastewater and meets stringent performance requirements.
Water | Vertical Plate Clarifier Removes Mercury & Humic Acid
A company that produces testing and measurement equipment needed to remove solids containing mercury and acid fines from their incoming process water stream.
Water | API Separator for FOG Removal
Monroe engineers were able to help one of the largest potato and corn chip producers in the world meet a strict deadline to achieve lower levels of FOG in their effluent discharge.