Industrial Services

Whether it is a plant turnaround, routine maintenance or an emergency, Clean Harbors provides rapid thorough cleaning-service solutions to refineries and petrochemical chemical plants throughout North America. We are skilled at managing hazardous, non-hazardous, wet and dry materials.

Typical Services Offered

• Tank Cleaning
• On-site Material Processing
• Vacuum Services
• Air Moving Services
• Pipe Cleaning and Removal
• Hydro Jetting and Blasting
• Chemical Cleaning

Tank Cleaning

Using specialized vacuum equipment, Clean Harbors cleans crude oil tanks; slurry oil, slop oil, gas-free coker oil tanks, hydrocracking catalyst (Cat Fines) tanks; and wastewater treatment tanks in refineries, petrochemical plants and terminals.  We clean tanks of all sizes from the very small to 240-foot diameter, 6 million gallon tanks.

On-site Material Processing

Waste minimization technologies including centrifuges, filter presses and thermal treatment units are mobilized to your site to process crude oil tank, slurry oil, slop oil, hydrocracking catalyst (Cat Fines) tank, wastewater treatment tank, and surface impoundment waste. Clean Harbors can substantially reduce your costs for transportation and disposal of tank or surface impoundment waste.

Vacuum Services

In refineries, petrochemical plants and in the field, Clean Harbors collects and transports wet or dry hazardous and non-hazardous materials, handling sumps, wash pads, tanks, containment areas, oil skimmings, sludge, wastewater, leachate, drilling mud, and spent coolants.  Stainless steel, carbon steel, dry and liquid vacuum units are provided on a routine or an emergency basis for general plant maintenance and planned projects, or for a spill or product release.

Air Moving Services

Air Moving Services collect solid industrial wastes and salvageable materials from hazardous or difficult-to-reach areas in refineries, petrochemical plants or in the field. Capabilities include handling a wide range of materials, wet or dry, hazardous or non-hazardous, with a consistency ranging from fine powder to chunks of concrete.

Clean Harbors has vessel-to-vessel transfer capabilities, allowing for enhanced recovery of reusable materials instead of treating the material as waste and incurring disposal costs. Substances handled include catalysts, lime, oil and hydrocarbon residuals, drilling mud, and construction debris.

Pipe Cleaning and Removal

As process piping becomes clogged with residue, Clean Harbors cleans and removes the most difficult materials utilizing jet rodding and other water jetting and blasting methods. Service can be performed without confined space entry of the system.  We clear obstructions from underground pipes, process lines, and sewer systems, and restore the lines to original flow capacity. Our methods are effective on a variety of materials including hardened hydrocarbon materials, sand impacted sewer lines, and other debris.

Hydro Jetting and Blasting

Clean Harbors’ advanced hydro jetting and blasting (high pressure washing) applications, which utilize media at varying pressures and flow rates, cost-effectively clean surfaces, process equipment, heat exchanger bundles, channel heads, valves, metal, and other industrial vessels. Hydro jetting can be applied to virtually every process configuration to remove foulants and other built-up materials generated in the oil and gas refining industry.

Chemical Cleaning

Compared to mechanical cleaning methods, chemical cleaning processes can reduce downtime and exposure to toxic materials and environmental hazards, while helping the affected unit run more efficiently.  Our chemical cleaning technologies remove residual oils, corrosion, water hardness deposits and other foulants from process equipment without creating surface damage caused by traditional cleaning media.