Inventors:
John J. Lawson - Severn MD
Steven A. Stetz - Stevensville MD
Stephan J. Verosto - Columbia MD
Nete M. Poret - Jessup MD
Richard R. Leung - Silver Spring MD
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC
International Classification:
C02F 140
Abstract:
In-situ cleaning of the bilgewater processing plates of stacks within the tank chamber of an oil/water separator is performed by an injected chemical cleaning agent while being dispersed by diverted flow of pressurized air introduced into the tank chamber below the plate stacks in the form of air bubbles emerging from plural branches of an air sparging array positioned in underlying alignment with crest formations of the processing plates.