Petroleum Saturated Solids
Petroleum saturated soils may have volatile constituents rendering disposal of the soil as landfill cover unacceptable until the concentrations are reduced to acceptable levels. Soil saturation with petroleum that are economically and chemically unfeasible for landfill cover may be accepted and processed through the MX2000 in a fashion similar to oil feed sludge.
The vapor recovery system (VRS) packs are structured specifically so the operation temperatures and ambient pressure of the SAREX® system does not exceed temperatures to crack petroleum hydrocarbons. The feed rate of the petroleum saturated soils will be adjusted to a common vapor flow rate to the SRS vapor recovery system. This is where condensing occurs as a light negative pressure pulls the air through the de-misters, the chilled air is polished by dual stage 2,000 pounds granulated activated carbon (GAC) packs which are efficient because the temp at this point in the system is of an ambient pressure guaranteeing a clean 95-99% of resources.
SRS has the capability to handle large ID27 type soil projects. However, SRS does not have the capacity to handle minimally contaminated petroleum hydrocarbons of large volume projects. Concentrations greater than 30,000 parts must be properly containerized and transported to the permitted 400,000 gal site capacity.