Physically and chemically emulsified hydrocarbon waters separator for ship's bilges

Physically and chemically emulsified hydrocarbon waters separator for ships' bilges, constructed to separate in an independent way the free hydrocarbon as well as the emulsified hydrocarbon in a mixture of hydrocarbon water, and being applicable preferently in ship's bilges, it is wherein it comprises two separation units, the first one as a gravimetric separation unit with coalescent plates to separate free hydrocarbon in the mixture of hydrocarbon water, while the separation unit has membrane ultrafiltration to separate the emulsified hydrocarbon;

• provided with a suction pump for the mixture of hydrocarbon water at the entrance, through a pipe, in each corresponding tank situated in this gravimetric separation unit, including a propeller pump of water without free hydrocarbon, coming from the separation unit, for its inlet and passing through the ultrafiltration unit, having also a third propeller pump of free hydrocarbon separated in the gravimetric unit, for its carriage to a pipe or common collector that flows to a storage tank of this hydrocarbon;
• including a detector of accumulated free hydrocarbon in the top part of the coalescent plates gravimetric unit, as well as a switchboard by means of which it is controlled automatically the functioning of the referred pumps, as well as the valves and other devices projected to allow the inlet of clean water according to the signals emitted as well as by the detector of free hydrocarbon as by water detectors and the ones coming from an hydrocarbon analyser provided in the same separator.