Recycling & Waste Management
Waste oil into profit
An innovative waste management company creates a high-grade fuel oil
made from waste oil, using a self-cleaning filter from Russell Finex
“In the United States alone, an estimated 200 million gallons of possible with traditional equipment.
used motor oil are improperly disposed of by being dumped on Global Recuperation, a waste management recycling company
the ground, tossed in the trash (ending up in landfills), and based in Quebec, Canada, reclaims used motor oil and filters, along
poured down storm sewers and drains,” states the EPA with other industrial commodities. Though waste oil is mandated
document titled “Collecting Used Oil for Recycling/Reuse.” for reuse in much of Canada, Eric Poisson, the company’s
“If all of the used oil that is improperly disposed of were President, wanted to capture an under-served market niche for a
properly managed, the United States could save thousands of higher grade of fuel oil, made from processed waste oil.
barrels of oil each day,” the EPA document continues. “Used oil “A number of industrial clients required a simpler, cleaner
that is properly handled can be re-refined into lubricants, burning fuel oil than the market offered from filtered waste oil,”
processed into fuel oils, and used as raw materials for the says Poisson. “Before burning, typical filtered waste oil has to
refining and petrochemical industries.” be pre-screened by the user in several steps, and it leaves more
Through waste oil recovery and reuse programs, pro-active residue than desired.”
nations such as the U.S. and Canada, as well as many Traditionally, Global Recuperation and other processors in the
municipalities are looking to turn the hazard of improper waste Quebec-area filtered waste oil with static filter cartridges at 20-
oil disposal into a valuable resource. In this effort, savvy mesh (900 micron). But there were production challenges with
companies are taking advantage of a new generation of self- this approach.
cleaning filter technology that can process waste oil into quality “The waste oil contained a variable percentage of solids that
products more effectively, with less downtime and labour than rapidly clogged our static filters,” says Poisson. “A dedicated
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