Category: oil sludge separation system

GN Containerized Oil Sludge Treatment Plant for Africa Client

GN Solids Control has successfully supplied a fully containerized oil sludge treatment system to an African client. This compact, skid-mounted plant is designed to treat oily waste from crude oil tank cleaning, refinery ponds, and drilling operations. The system enables the recovery of valuable oil, recycles water, and significantly reduces solid waste volume—all while meeting stringent environmental standards.
The entire plant is integrated into standard shipping containers, making it ideal for Africa’s infrastructure conditions where ease of transport, rapid deployment, and relocation between sites are critical. The modular design also allows future expansion and simplified maintenance.


The system consists of four core modules:
(1) Pre-Mixing Tank Module
The pre-mixing tank module is the first step in the treatment process. Raw oil sludge often has high viscosity, high solids content, and poor fluidity. This module heats, dilutes, and conditions the sludge to create a homogeneous slurry suitable for downstream separation.


(2) Shale shaker Module
After pre mixing, the sludge still contains large debris, stones, and coarse sand. If these particles enter the centrifuge directly, they will cause accelerated wear and reduce separation efficiency. The vibrating screen module removes these oversized solids as a protective step.
(3) Three Phase Decanter Centrifuge Module
Including three phase decanter centrifuge, its feeding pump, fluids catching tank and skid. This is the core separation unit of the entire plant. The three phase decanter centrifuge simultaneously separates oil, water, and solids from the conditioned sludge using high centrifugal force. It is particularly suitable for oily sludge with wide fluctuations in oil content and complex compositions.


(4) Chemical Dosing Module
Effective chemical treatment is essential for breaking emulsions and enhancing separation efficiency. The chemical dosing module automatically prepares and injects flocculants, coagulants, and demulsifiers into the process stream.
If you need a customized solution of oil sludge treatment system, pls contact with GN solids.

IECEX Explosion Proof VFD Decanter Centrifuge for Middle East Client

One batch of IEC explosion proof VFD decanter centrifuge are ready for shipment to Middle East, including VFD decanter centrifuge, VFD control panel, feeding pump and telescopic skid package.


Except for VFD decanter centrifuge, GN solids control also produce high speed decanter centrifuge, middle speed decanter centrifuge and fully hydraulic drive decanter centrifuge. Not only two phase decanter centrifuge, we also produce three phase decanter centrifuge. It can be applied for oil and gas drilling solids control system and drilling waste management system, oil sludge treatment system, also it can be used for HDD tailing slurry separation, mining slurry separation, construction engineering mud cleaning and other waste water treatment.
GN decanter centrifuge features including:


1. The bowl main parts are made by centrifugal casting and made of duplex stainless steel SS2304, superior to the performance of SS 314 and SS316.
2. The main material of the screw assy is duplex stainless steel SS2304, superior to the performance of SS314 and SS316L.
3. The screw propeller is protected by tungsten carbide tiles and it is replaceable, the working life is much longer than hard facing wear resistant coating layer.
4. The slag discharge port is protected by replaceable hard alloy sleeve.
5. The liquid outlet is also protected by replaceable hard alloy sleeve.
6. The SKF high quality bearing ensure the reliable operation and long service life.
7. The bearing lubrication system is applied for big model decanter centrifuges, such as 22 inch, 30 inch bowl diameter decanter centrifuge, it can meet the requirement of heavy load and high speed operation, which can improve the service life of bearings.
8. Planetary gearbox with large transmission torque, smaller size, stable operation and easy maintenance.
If you need a good performance and high quality VFD decanter centrifuge, pls contact with GN solids control.

2 Sets GNOST-15 Oil Sludge Treatment System for Asia Customer

Recently 2 sets of GNOST-15 Oil Sludge Treatment System are ready for shipment to Asia customer. Each set of GNOST-15 Oil Sludge Treatment System including the components as below:


1. Feeding pump module, to pick up the oil sludge from waste pit and transfer to pre-mixing tank
2. Pre-mixing tank module, the function is to diluting, washing, heating and mixing of the oil sludge, so that the solids can be separated from the liquids in the further process of shale shaker, decanter centrifuge and three phase decanter centrifuge.


3. Coarse shale shaker separation module, to separate the coarse solids and reduce the solids content of the oil sludge, to protect the further decanter centrifuge, if the solids content is very high, the decanter centrifuge screw will be damaged and blocked easily.
4. GNLW-554 two phase decanter centrifuge module, the fine solids can be separated out from the decanter centrifuge by adding chemicals by chemical dosing unit
5. GNLWS-554 three phase separation decanter centrifuge module, to separate the fine solids, water and oil. The recovered oil can be reused or to be sold, the water can be reused in the circulation system or sent to waste water treatment facility, the solids discharged from shale shaker, two phase decanter centrifuge and three phase decanter centrifuge will be collected and sent to TDU for final treatment.


6. Chemical dosing unit module, to add chemicals in pre-mixing tank and 2 phase decanter centrifuge to improve the separation efficiency
7. Steam generator module, to provide hot steam to pre-mixing tank heating line , shale shaker separation tank module heating line, two phase decanter centrifuge tank heating line. There are electrical driven steam generator and diesel driven steam generator for option.
To get a customized proposal of the oil sludge treatment system, pls contact with GN solids sales.

GN Oil Sludge Treatment Centrifuge Unit for South America Client

Recently one set of oil sludge treatment centrifuge unit with tank cleaning unit is ready for delivery to South America client, the system consists of three phase centrifuge separation unit, Inclined plate clarifier module, waste transfer module, chemical dosing unit module, etc.
The technical configuration is as below:


1. Oil sludge treatment centrifuge unit, one unit of three phase separation centrifuge with feeding pump is installed on the mud tank. It is used for oil, water, solids separation, the solids is collected by skips, the water and oil will flow to the oil storage tank and water storage tank under the 3 phase decanter centrifuge, the oil pump and water pump will transfer them to the client’s storage tank automatically, there is liquid level meter in the oil tank and water tank to control the high level and low level.


2. Three module automatic tank cleaning unit, including suction skid with chemical dosing unit, treatment skid with inclined plate clarifier (IPC) and electrical membrane pump, storage skid with holding tank and high pressure pump which suck the treated water to the high pressure cleaning machine. There are 2 high pressure pump, one pump with control panel in use, one pump with separate control panel as back up. Both of the high pressure pump can suck the treated water from fluids holding tank or three phase separation centrifuge unit water storage tank. The treated water in holding tank can be used for high pressure cleaning machine, also it can be treated by the three phase separation centrifuge unit through the feeding pump. The 3 skids are connected with corrosion resistant rubber hose in the same size, they can be placed close to each other as a complete tank cleaning system, also it can be used separated in different place as requirement.

22inch big bowl decanter centrifuges unit for Kuwait Oil Sludge Treatment Company

As a manufacturer of decanter centrifuge unit manufacturer in China, GN solids control can design and produce different size decanter centrifuge, including 9 inch centrifuge, 14 inch centrifuge, 18 inch centrifuge, 22 inch big bowl decanter centrifuge, 25 inch centrifuge, 30 inch decanter centrifuge. Except for two phase separation decanter centrifuge, GN solids also produce 3 phase separation decanter centrifuge for solids, oil and water. The decanter centrifuge applications including drilling rig solids control system, drilling cuttings treatment system, oil sludge treatment system, dewatering unit, waste water treatment system, mining tailings treatment and construction slurry cleaning, etc.


We have 2 models of 22 inch big bowl decanter centrifuge, GNLW553-VFD and GNLW554-VFD. The bowl diameter is 22 inch (550mm), The bowl length is 71 inch (1800mm) or 91 inch (2310mm). The designed capacity is 500gpm, the typical capacity is 400gpm. The max bowl speed is 3000rpm, the typical bowl speed is 2500rpm, the max G force is 2719G, the typical G force is 1888G. The bowl speed and differential speed can be adjustable by VFD control panel operation.
The oil sludge is a mixture of oil, water, and solid contaminants that can result from oil spills, tank cleaning, or oil production processes. Proper treatment and disposal of oil sludge are critical to mitigate environmental damage and recover valuable resources.


GN oil sludge treatment system working process is as below:
The vacuum pump pick up the oil sludge or contaminated soil from waste pit and discharge to pre-mixing tank, by adding chemicals, heating and agitating in the pre-mixing tank to improve the separation efficiency of the further separation equipments. After screening module, the treated fluids will be feed to big bowl decanter centrifuge to separate to solids and liquids ( oil water mixture), working with chemical dosing unit and heating if need.