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.

Metals are commonly found in wastewater streams and can be removed through clarification, separation, and/or filtration. Metals that are dissolved in wastewater can often be brought out of solution and precipitated through pH adjustment. Additional chemicals such as coagulants and flocculants can then be used to enhance these removal processes.

Monroe Environmental has supplied countless metals removal systems across a variety of industries using the following technologies:

• Circular Clarifiers
• Lamella Plate Vertical Clarifiers
• Horizontal Plate Clarifiers
• X-Flo™ Mobile Clarifiers
• API Separators
• Custom Clarifiers & Separators

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.)

Ammonia (and nitrogen) regulations for water have become much more stringent in recent years. Ammonia that is dissolved in water can be removed under the correct process conditions at various stages the treatment process.

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:

• Air Strippers

Mobile Water Treatment is required in specific industries such as fracking and pipe testing, but is also extremely beneficial during emergency events, scheduled maintenance shutdowns, and bypass operations.

Monroe Environmental offers mobile clarifiers and separators for these applications and any others where permanent installation is not feasible or desired. Our systems include:

• X-Flo™ Mobile Clarifiers
• Rental Clarifiers & Separators

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