3 Green Ways To Clean Up Industrial Tanks
Industrial tanks are everywhere, not just in industrious settings. For example, water tanks and septic tanks are household industrial tanks. You can find fuel tanks at gas stations and other places where vehicles refuel. Storage tanks turn up in food factories and chemical processing plants, and even trucks, trains, and ships use the storage and protection of industrial tanks.
One thing these tanks have in common is the need to be clean between uses. Clean tanks ensure pure products, safety, and better preservation. When cleaning these tanks, you shouldn’t do it at the expense of the environment. Here are three green ways to clean up industrial tanks. Naturally, not all methods apply to all substances stored in tanks, but these should spark a few eco-friendly ideas.
Under Pressure
Water is the universal solvent, and most cleaning methods involve high-pressure water streams blasting away grime. The right intensity of high-pressure water can strip away nonhazardous materials, so keep that in mind before your first course of action. Gentle detergents and solvents can assist pressure waters in both cleaning and disinfecting tanks. It’s possible to clean commercial equipment and offices in a sustainable way.
Being Abrasive
Sandblasting or sanding is another option to consider for cleaning industrial tanks. Water can’t always take care of calcified, cured, or hardened substances on its own. Sanding uses sandpaper and similar tools employing abrasive substances to wear away and break down built-up gunk. Similarly, sandblasters use several sorts of material to strip away built-up substances, such as sand and bicarbonate like soda, walnut shells, metallic grit, and steel shot.
The person operating the sandblaster must take safety precautions to avoid breathing in harmful materials. Otherwise, sandblasting is an environmentally safe means of cleaning tanks.
Give It a Spin
Some industrial tanks hold or are part of the process of turning crude oil into refined oil for various purposes. Cleaning processes involving crude oil recovery machinery subject the sludge to a centrifuge to separate the chemical constituents of the sludge. We can retrieve water and oil from industrial sludge rather than disposing (read, wasting) of the whole kit and kaboodle. This prevents sludge from entering landfills and poisoning the environment.
Those are just three green ways to clean up industrial tanks. The industrial tank cleaning process may seem complex, but it’s important to do the job right in a way that makes the smallest impact on the ecosystem!