Persistent haze
Water remains cloudy after settling or basic chemical treatment.
Separate the oil
that will not settle.
Cleaners, surfactants, machining fluids, and process agitation can hold oil in a stubborn emulsion. MCi evaluates the actual wastewater to find a practical break, capture, and separation path.
Break the emulsion.
Build a separable floc.
Conventional settling alone may not work when chemistry stabilizes the oil-water interface. A tailored clay-polymer treatment can be screened to destabilize the emulsion, gather fine material, and form a robust solids phase for downstream separation.
The objectiveMove oil and suspended contamination out of the water phase while producing solids that can be clarified, filtered, or dewatered with the equipment available.
Variable cleaners
Product changes and wash chemistry shift the emulsion behavior.
Carryover
Fine oil and solids pass through clarification or filtration.
Hauling cost
Too much water leaves the facility as liquid waste.
From stubborn emulsion
to visible separation.
Jar testing reveals whether the chemistry creates a treatment window worth scaling.
Understand the emulsion
Review the oils, cleaners, temperature, pH, batch pattern, and downstream limits.
Screen the treatment
Evaluate separation, dose, floc strength, clarified water, and reaction time.
Match the equipment
Coordinate settling, filtration, dewatering, holding, and feed controls around the result.
Emulsion-focusedNot settling alone
Fast visual proofBench-screened first
Lower liquid volumeWhen testing supports it
Show us the emulsion
Test the break.
See the separation.
Share the process chemistry, a representative sample, flow, and what has already been tried.
Treatment results vary by wastewater. Bench and field testing are required before a final program is specified.