At A Glance:
- Location : Dagenham, East London
- Contractor: Hampton Environmental Services
- Client: Ford Motor Company UK
Products Supplied:
- Models supplied: 6300C1/SC
- Large bypass separator to treat the 10% flow off the very large catchment area at the site.
- Will treat up to 300 l/s and bypass up to 3000 l/s
- Physical size of 4.2m diameter and 10.3m long
- Econoskim keeps the Stormceptor in peak condition, ready to treat incoming flows to the highest possible level.
Ford Dagenham is owned and operated by Ford of Britain a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. Covering over 475 acres the plant has now been operating for over 100 years, having been opened in 1919 and since then has produced over 39 million engines which is now its primary aim, having closed its car assembly area in 2002. The site in the East of London employees around 2,000 people and currently produces engines for its F-150, Transit/Transit Custom and Transit Connect/Transit Courier. The site is located right on the River Thames as many supplies were delivered by boat when the site first opened. Being located this close to the River now poses a large threat for Ford in a day when ‘the polluter pays’ therefore SPEL were asked to advice what system they should use to protect the River from any potential spillages.
SPEL manufactured a SPEL Stormceptor 6300C1/SC by-pass separator with silt capacity for this site. This bypass separator will treat a flow of 300l/s and will bypass flows of up to 3000l/s with a large silt capacity of 30,000 litres. SPEL provided this bypass oil separator with the full SPEL coalescer guiderail system installed for easy maintenance of the unit.
SPEL later provided a SPEL Econoskim system that was retrofitted to this unit to keep the SPEL Stormceptor operating at peak performance 24/7, ensuring that if a large spillage occurs the separator oil storage level is as low as possible to give optimum oil treatment in a spillage. The SPEL Econoskim system removes oil from the separator to a separate containment tank where the oil can be easily removed by a waste removal contractor, or due to the high quality of the oil/fuel stored (any water is automatically removed and put back into the separator) the oil/fuel can even be reused!