SPI's Patented Technology To Filter, Absorb and Contain
SPI’s Petro-Barrier™, Petro-Pipe® and Petro-Plug® products use patented filtering technology that allows water to drain while providing a total oil spill containment system. Water enters through the top of the products and filters down through three different layers of filtration media. When oil sheen is present, the filtration media removes most contaminants to non-detectable levels.
In the event of an oil spill, the oil/water filter forms a plug and becomes an oil spill containment system, preventing oil from being released into the environment and allowing cleanup at the spill site. No other technology offers the reliability of water drainage and proven oil spill protection 24/7/365 without sensors, oil/water separators, pumps or valves.
SPI oil containment solutions have been proven in thousands of applications since 1999. This technology can be used in the design of new oil containment projects or easily retrofitted for oil tanks or transformers to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures (SPCC) regulations. The Petro-Barrier, Petro-Pipe and Petro-Plug are all acceptable methods to provide oil spill containment required under SPCC regulations.
Where SPI Spill Containment Products Are Used
SPI’s oil/water filters and oil spill containment systems are used at electric utilities, oil companies, railroad yards, government agencies and around petroleum storage tanks. Applications include storm drains, containment sumps, floor drains and custom projects.
How SPI Spill Containment Products Have Been Tested
With thousands of installations completed, SPI’s Petro-Barrier, Petro-Pipe and Petro-Plug products have undergone extensive field testing. No oil has ever escaped an oil spill where any of these products were installed. SPI’s products have also been third-party laboratory tested, leading to recent acceptance by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to allow rainwater discharge from oil containment areas. Other total petroleum hydrocarbon testing found less than 1 ppm or non-detectable hydrocarbon levels in water after it had gone though SPI filters.
SPI worked with a major engineering company for more than four years in the development of a containment system used in five separate facilities protecting diesel containment areas.
SPI developed a unique containment curtain for an Alabama company which allows trucks, trailers and equipment to enter and leave the contained area and not damage the containment area floor.
SPI has worked with a major engineering company for more than four years in the development of a containment system used in five separate facilities protecting diesel containment areas.
Florida's Department of Environmental Protection has accepted SPI’s Petro-Plug, Petro-Pipe and Petro-Barrier for use with any oil containment system for storm water drainage.
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