Technology, reprocessing of oil/water mixtures

Oil emulsions from industry, slop oil from vessels and oil/water mixtures from e.g. tank cleaning are processed at Dansk Olie Genbrug's division in Horsens.

The waste oil is filtered, heated and stored in tanks in which the oil and water separate due to their different densities. The oil rises, helped by the heat.

The water content is led to water processing and cleansed of heavy metals and oils before being discharged for further treatment at Horsens Central Purification facility.

The oil phase is pumped to a tank for further sedimentation of water. After filtration and analyses, the oil is ready for sale as support fuel oil in heavy industry, a reduction agent in the steel industry or for refining in the Netherlands, where the oil is distilled into cleaner fuel oil. The highest degree of utilisation of the oil product is to benefit from the heating calories. What was originally primarily heating oil is recycled as heating oil.