Mobile power wash system with water reclamation and hydrocarbon removal method

Abstract

A cyclonic power wash system and method of using the system to clean flat surfaces. The cyclonic power wash system 11 uses high pressure, high temperature water for selectively cleaning large, flat, concrete or asphalt surfaces. The sprayed water is reclaimed by vacuuming it through holes in the bottom of a reclamation ring attached to the underside of the mobile cyclone sprayer, filtering the vacuumed water and returning it to a storage tank for re-use by the system. The filtration tank initially filters out large matter in an inlet trough and smaller matter in a plurality of cascading chambers. Removably constrained within each chamber of the filtration tank and in each downstream canister filter is at least one bag or pillow filled with water insoluble, hydrocarbon absorbent, substantially polypropylene material which absorbs oil, fuel and other hydrocarbon substances suspended in or floating on the water passing there through. Periodically, the bags are removed, the absorbed hydrocarbons are removed therefrom, such as, by squeezing the bags, the removed hydrocarbons are separately collected, and the bags are reused.

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