Oily Wastewater · Environmental

Oily Wastewater Treatment Starts With What You Send to the Plant.

The treatment plant has to take whatever the cleaning crews send it. Solvent wash water arrives as a hazardous slug. Microbial cleaners arrive with a foreign culture. Hasten Cleanse arrives as suspended oil in water with a fatty-acid base that the plant's own biology uses as food. This page is for the environmental manager deciding what cleaning chemistry the site is allowed to use.

Feeds the biology, does not compete with it. No added bacteria. Fatty acids and surfactants only.

No solvent slug. Water-based, no flash point, non-hazardous.

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What Arrives at the Plant

Cleaning chemistry used upstream	What the plant receives
Solvent degreaser or solvent tank wash	Hazardous wash water, solvent load, flash point
Microbial or enzyme cleaner	A foreign culture competing with the native population
Caustic cleaner	pH swing
Hasten Cleanse	Suspended oil in non-hazardous water; fatty acids as food; no added organisms

No added bacteria. Hasten Cleanse is a chemical, fatty acids and surfactants, with nothing alive in it. It does not introduce a culture that competes with or displaces the microbes already in your system. The fatty acids are food for the population you have.

Where It Is Used Upstream

Tank and vessel cleaning

Crude and product tanks, degassing and cleaning in one wash.

API and oil-water separators

Sludge and vapor, with wash water back to the plant.

Equipment degreasing

Hydrocarbon film on steel and concrete, rinsed to the separator.

Spill response

Lifts spilled oil for recovery; runoff is non-hazardous.

What Hasten Cleanse does not do

It is not a solvent and not a caustic. It will not dissolve, melt, or strip material that is physically bonded or baked onto a surface: scale, rust, hardened deposits, coatings. It lifts hydrocarbons, oil, grease, crude, sludge, and paraffin, by emulsifying them, and it needs agitation, circulation, pressure, or heat to do that work. If your problem is a stuck-on solid rather than a hydrocarbon film or residue, tell us and we will say so.

Concentrate and Packaging

Ask us for the SDS and the constituent list for your environmental review. All constituents are on the TSCA inventory.

No added bacteriaNothing in the pail is alive. Hasten Cleanse feeds the microbes you already have, in a treatment plant, a separator, or the soil, instead of competing with them.

Full concentrateSold as concentrate and diluted on site, 1:10 for heavy residue to 1:50 for light. Compare products by working gallons per drum, not by the drum.

No flash point, no placardsWater-based and non-flammable. Ships as standard freight in 5-gallon pails, 55-gallon drums, 275-gallon totes, and bulk. Gulf Coast delivery in one to two days.

Serving Refineries, Terminals, Plants, and Yards

Gulf Coast and Permian, standard freight from Houston.

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Oily Wastewater Questions, Answered Straight

Does it contain microbes or enzymes?

No. It is a chemical: fatty acids and surfactants. Nothing alive.

What does it do to a biological treatment system?

The fatty-acid base is a food source for the existing biology. Customers use it specifically because it does not upset the plant. Review it like any input.

Is the wash water hazardous?

No. Suspended oil in non-hazardous water, no solvent.

Does it emulsify oil so tightly the separator cannot recover it?

It suspends oil as small droplets; customers recover oil at separators and by settling. Ask for a jar test with your water.

TSCA?

All constituents listed.