Garage Floor Drain Oil Separator

Lift out v shaped filter screen and u shaped separator screen.

Garage floor drain oil separator.

The pipe drains to the ground outside about 40 feet from the garage door. Interceptors direct stocks five 5 sd combination floor drain separators. Quite a few subscribers were wondering where the drain water goes from the garage and if i had installed an oil separator. Some people worry about oil getting into the floor drains and causing pollution of the ecosystem.

That s a valid concern if you have a massive oil spill in a garage. The largest unit has a greasy sludge capacity of 193 pounds and liquid holding capacity of 55 gallons. Applications rockford oil separators are designed to receive directly from plant equipment or floor drains various kinds of oils gasoline kerosene naphtha benzene other volatile liquid waste and sludge. The smallest unit has a 12 pound greasy sludge capacity and a 3 5 gallon liquid holding capacity.

That s a contraption for lack of a better word that prevents oil that might wash away from vehicles from getting into the ground. Scoop out heavy sludge from bottom of unit. Instead it s trapped and when enough has accumulated can be cleaned out. I built my own oil water separator for the drain in my garage.

Some people worry about oil getting into the floor drains and causing pollution of the ecosystem. I didn t install an oil separator and it s not required by the code. Because the drain was in the floor of a garage space it needed an oil water separator. They retain this harmful waste matter and prevent its entry into the drainage system providing triple advantages.

I maintain this is a rare. Replace u screen sediment and mud pan and inlet grate. That is a valid concern if you have a massive oil spill in a garage. They are all manufactured by rockford separators and constructed using an all welded low carbon steel design.

Before buying the drain parts i did some research.