floating decanter / horizontal / for sludge dewatering

?At SkimOil we have developed some better methods and equipment for decanting ash ponds. Our floating weir skimmers (FWS) originally designed as surface oil skimmers, simply drain an area from the top down and remove whatever is flowable on/from the waters surface. In the ash ponds we found that the FWS with their laminar flow-do a great job of removing surface water without stirring up all the stuff under the water surface.
We just had to scale these up some to deal with the large flow rates needed to efficiently drain the ash ponds. There's a LOT of water in/on these coal ash ponds. We needed over 5 times our normal oil skimming flow rates, so we manifolded 3 of our largest FWS (#FWS00A381) skimmers together to get the high flow rates??..and they are awesome------but not enough! (Pictured Left). Back to the drawing board! We had to scale up and design our new Big Ass Surface Skimmer (BASS) that has a 36? wide weir and an 8? outlet and has projected flow capabilities of up to 1500 GPM. (Pictured Below) We prefer not making these any larger due to ergonomics and the fact that they have to be installed by men in usually small boats. These new BBSS units can fit into the back of an SUV for easy transport. Normal operations include a powerful pump on shore hooked to a large (10?) HDPE pipe extending far into the pond and connecting to the skimmers.
?Need more flow rate ???...simply use more of these BASS units.