Industrial Services

Overview

NRCES industrial services personnel are experts in assisting our customers in freeing equipment and facilities of regulated materials. Our mobile equipment and trained personnel can tackle any job, from a 2,000,000 gallon bunker tank clean to an acid contaminated floor sump clean up.

Specific discussions of our services are provided below.

Tank Cleaning

NRCES can provide both the equipment and the technical and supervisory personnel needed for a variety of tank cleaning operations.  NRCES has experience with both marine and land-based tanks containing petroleum and other regulated materials.  The marine tanks we've cleaned include petroleum barges, vessel fuel tanks, bilges, and machinery compartments.

On land, NRCES has cleaned highway and rail tank cars, above ground and underground storage tanks, separator tanks, clarifies, waste oil tanks, and process tanks.  We are especially skilled at identifying the cleaning method best suited for the job.   Cleaning options include hydro blasting, chipping, solids and sludge removal, Butterworth nozzle washing, chemical extraction, heating and re-circulation.

Pumping and Cleaning

NRCES maintains a modern fleet of vacuum and tanker trucks, high capacity centrifugal and diaphragm pumps, hydraulic submersible pumps, hoses, and a variety of ancillary equipment to move virtually any pumpable material from one point to another.  Specialized pumps for transferring chemicals and high viscosity fluids are also inventoried.

This equipment has been employed for tank product transfers, vessel lightering and ballasting, pond and lagoon dewatering, hazardous material spill transfers, and bypass transfers of process liquids in piping systems

Waste Minimization

NRCES operates portable centrifuge sludge dewatering and vapor control systems for reduction and phase separation of sludge and semisolid materials.  These units have been shown to reduce disposal costs by minimizing disposable quantities and producing reusable by products.  Although they are most often deployed at petroleum refining facilities, the units have proven effective for the treatment of plating waste, municipal sludge, pulp and paper sludge, and sediment form wastewater lagoons.