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Industrial Wastewater Canada sizes and supplies oil water separators for plants in Longueuil, Quebec. Local demand is driven by aerospace, metal finishing, food processing, plastics, discharging under Longueuil's sewer-use rules toward St. Lawrence River. Quote requests with flow rate and effluent type get a sized proposal.

Every vehicle wash bay, machine shop, fuel depot and refinery in Canada faces the same line item in its sewer-use bylaw: oil and grease, typically capped somewhere between 15 and 100 mg/L depending on the municipality. An oil water separator is the standard way to meet that cap. It exploits the density difference between oil and water: flow slows inside the vessel, droplets rise and coalesce into a surface layer that gets skimmed, and cleaned water leaves from below.
The choice that matters is between the two main designs. A gravity API separator is a long rectangular basin sized to Stokes' law, built to let droplets of roughly 150 microns and larger rise out. It is robust, tolerant of solids and easy to maintain, which is why refineries still standardize on it. A coalescing-plate separator adds inclined plate packs or oleophilic media that intercept far smaller droplets, down to about 20 to 60 microns, so it reaches better effluent quality in a fraction of the footprint. Our coalescing configurations hold effluent under 10 ppm oil and grease in free-oil service, and many sites pair an API basin with a coalescing polishing stage.
We quote both, in above-grade and below-grade tanks, with API 421 compliant configurations where the specification calls for it. Options include oil-stop valves that close automatically when the oil layer reaches capacity, high-level alarms, and sludge baffles for streams that carry grit. What a separator will not do is remove chemically emulsified or dissolved oil; if your stream carries surfactants from a wash process, we will tell you plainly that you need chemical treatment or flotation ahead of the separator, because selling you a tank that cannot meet your limit helps neither of us.
Sizing depends on flow rate, droplet size distribution and oil type, which is why the search term oil water separator, at 480 searches a month in Canada, so often ends in a mis-sized purchase from a catalogue. Send us your flow, a recent lab analysis or a description of the process, and your discharge destination. We return a sized configuration, budget price and delivery timeline, reviewed by a process engineer before it reaches you, for any site in Canada. Installation support and commissioning are quoted per project, and replacement plate packs and media remain available for the life of the vessel. Below-grade installations ship with traffic-rated covers where the separator sits in a drive lane, and we keep skimmer parts and alarm components on the shelf so a maintenance call does not become a compliance gap.
Longueuil's aerospace industry gives its wastewater a distinctive chemistry. The surface-treatment shops serving the sector's manufacturers run anodizing, plating and conversion-coating lines whose rinses carry chromates, cyanides and complexed metals, exactly the parameters CMM By-law 2008-47 restricts most severely for the 254,000-resident city's discharge toward the St. Lawrence. Aerospace surface-treatment shops (chromates, cyanides) under CMM 2008-47 metal limits. That is the regulatory backdrop for oil Water Separators in Longueuil: equipment gets sized against the local limits on the route to St. Lawrence River, not against a national average.
Location
Longueuil, Quebec
Population 254K
Receiving Water
St. Lawrence River
Pricing
Sized & quoted per project
Longueuil's aerospace plating shops treat chromates and cyanides under CMM By-law 2008-47 on one side and Nadcap audit scrutiny on the other, so the wastewater system answers to both the inspector and the prime contractor. In Longueuil, the plants asking about oil Water Separators are mostly in aerospace, metal finishing, food processing and plastics, and each of those sectors puts a different load on a treatment train. Aerospace surface-treatment shops (chromates, cyanides) under CMM 2008-47 metal limits. Direct discharge toward St. Lawrence River instead requires a ministerial authorization under section 22 of Quebec's Environment Quality Act. In a city of Longueuil's size the industrial dischargers are few enough that the utility knows each one by name, which cuts both ways at permit renewal. Projects in Longueuil tend to be one-of-a-kind rather than repeat configurations, which is exactly the case where sizing from measured effluent data matters most.
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Yes. Industrial Wastewater Canada sizes and supplies oil Water Separators for plants across Longueuil and the surrounding region. Most local demand comes from aerospace, metal finishing, food processing, plastics. Send a quote request with your flow rate and effluent type and a sized proposal follows.
Aerospace surface-treatment shops (chromates, cyanides) under CMM 2008-47 metal limits. Food processors and plastics plants round out the industrial base with more conventional loads. Chromates and cyanides under metro-Montreal limits Metal-finishing wastewater is unforgiving: chromium must be reduced before it can precipitate, cyanide must be oxidized before anything else happens, and mixing the two streams at the wrong point creates problems worse than either alone. Plants discharging to the municipal sewer answer to that regime; anything released directly toward St. Lawrence River needs a ministerial authorization under section 22 of Quebec's Environment Quality Act. We size equipment against whichever limit governs your outfall.
From your numbers, not from the city's. We start with measured flow and effluent characterization, then check the result against Longueuil's local limits. A processor in a city of 254K with aerospace as the dominant sector rarely has the same loading profile as its neighbours, so treatability data drives the selection.
There is no list price; every system is sized and quoted per project. The economics are local, though. Compliance in Longueuil therefore starts with segregation at the process line, then staged treatment, chrome reduction, cyanide destruction, hydroxide precipitation, before any combined discharge. Shops here also face aerospace customer audits (Nadcap and OEM flow-downs) that examine effluent handling as part of process control, so the treatment system serves two masters: the CMM inspector and the prime contractor's quality team. Payback in Longueuil is usually calculated against those surcharge and compliance costs, and the quote spells that comparison out.
Flow, contaminants, discharge limit. An engineer replies with a sized treatment train and a quote — no obligation.