If you work in Alberta's industry, you create liquid waste. The safest and most efficient way to dispose of it is through semi-vac services. This includes the safe collection, transportation, and delivery of your company’s liquid waste. Keep reading to learn more about how semi-vac services work.
What Are Semi-vacs?
As you can undoubtedly guess, a semi-vacuum is a tractor unit (the semi/engine and cab) that pulls a vacuum and tank unit on its chassis. The vacuum has a high-suction pump that extracts industrial waste liquids, sludges, and slurries from tanks, pits, and other holding systems. Semi-vac tanks can hold several thousand gallons of waste liquids, including toxic and corrosive ones.
How Semi-Vac Services Work
A semi-vac service is fairly straightforward. Once the semi-vac truck is positioned near the waste collection point. The vacuum pump is engaged, and suction draws waste material through the hoses into the storage tank. When the collection is complete, the operator stops the pump, secures the system for transport, and begins the journey to an approved disposal or treatment facility, where discharge valves are used to empty the truck’s storage tank as required by the facility.
Safe Semi-Vac Services in Alberta
Trained operators and certified equipment are the basis of safe semi-vac services in Alberta; however, important protocols are put into place to ensure the removal of toxic gases and hazardous materials. These protocols include the use of scrubbers to remove hydrogen sulphide and regular maintenance.
Semi-Vac operators are certified to operate their trucks and respond to any potential leaks or spills at any point of a semi-vac service. Operators wear personal protective equipment (PPE), such as protective clothing, gloves, and respiratory equipment, when working with hazardous materials. They adhere to provincial and federal regulations regarding the safe, legal, and ecological handling, transport, and delivery of various waste materials.
Semi-Vac Service in Alberta Industries
Each industry uses semi-vac services for its own reasons. In the oil and gas sector, semi-vacs manage the production of water, drilling fluids, and waste products. Manufacturing facilities use them to remove wastewater and chemical waste. Construction sites require semi-vacs for dewatering and removing slurry. The agriculture sector employs them to control runoff and animal waste. In emergency situations, semi-vacs are used to contain and remove hazardous materials.
Find Semi-Vac Services in Alberta
Whatever sector you work in, if you require semi-vac services to collect, haul, and dispose of your liquid waste, call Alberta Liquid Waste Hauling. We have served Edmonton and the rest of Alberta with various semi-vac services for over 25 years.
Contact us today to find out more about our professional industrial semi-vac services, which include sump cleaning, liquid waste sewage, and industrial waste removal.
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