Control of grease removal equipment via cell phone app
AssigneeThermaco, Inc.
InventorsWilliam C. Batten, Randolph Batten
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Abstract
A separator assembly for separating fat, oil, and grease from effluent includes a container for receiving and holding effluent water containing oil, grease and solid waste to be removed from the effluent water and a communications module having a processor, memory and transmitter at the facility site to communicate over cellular or WiFi signals with a remote station. The separator may include a skimmer to skim F.O.G. from the effluent water held in the container or be of a grease trap mode collecting F.O.G. for subsequent removal.
Claims15
A separator system for separating fat, oil, and/or grease (F.O.G) from effluent comprising:
- a container for receiving and holding effluent water containing fat, oil, and/or grease (F.O.G) to be removed from the effluent water and permitting accumulation of fat, oil, and/or grease (F.O.G);
- a sensor associated with the container to sense accumulation of fat, oil, and/or grease (F.O.G) in the container and issue data about fat, oil, and/or grease (F.O.G.) that has accumulated in the container;
- a skimmer to skim accumulated fat, oil, and/or grease (F.O.G) from the effluent water held in the container;
- a communications module having a communications module application, processor, memory and transmitter in the system that is operatively associated with the sensor to communicate sensor data about fat, oil, and/or grease (F.O.G.) that has accumulated in the container to a remote station, and
- a second application located in the remote station and in communication with the communications module application and configured to assemble information from more than one separator system, update a database housing information from the more than one separator system, and provide a remote monitoring of the skimming, performance, and/or mechanics of each separator system.
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