Products Overview
AbTech's Smart Sponge® contains a unique molecular structure which is chemically selective to hydrocarbons, removing up to 3 times its own weight. Smart Sponge® remains buoyant when saturated and encapsulates hydrocarbons and oils, without leaching. AbTech's Smart Sponge® Plus is EPA approved to reduce coliform bacteria found in stormwater, industrial wastewater, and municipal wastewater, and can be engineered to meet your specific performance requirements.
The Ultra-Urban® Filter with Smart Sponge® is an innovative low-cost BMP that helps meet NPDES requirements with effective filtration, efficient application, and low maintenance. It is a true water filter that ensures water flowing through the system is properly and completely treated. This solution is used to treat stormwater runoff for new or retrofitted sites by absorbing oil and grease and capturing trash and sediment. In addition, AbTech's Smart Sponge Plus® contains an antimicrobial agent that is effective in reducing coliform bacteria found in stormwater, industrial wastewater, and municipal wastewater. Smart Sponge® and Smart Sponge® Plus are comprehensive solutions geared at removing key contaminants and pollutants from stormwater runoff.
The Ultra-Urban Filter is ideal for municipal, industrial, and construction applications ensuring compliance with stormwater regulations. The filter comes in three designs: the Curb Opening, Drain Insert, and Customized Drain Insert.
The Ultra Urban Filter (UUF) Curb Opening Series is a simple yet effective tool for stormwater filtration of hydrocarbons, trash and sediment. When UUFs contain Smart Sponge® Plus, the filters also reduce coliform bacteria. The unique micro porosity of Smart Sponge allows each CO1414 filter a hydraulic flow rate of more than 250 gallons per minute and has proven effective in removing more than 80% of hydrocarbons and total suspended solids (TSS) (300 microns or greater).
The unique design of the Curb Opening Series allows crews to easily hang the appropriate number of filters in each drain on a simple mounting bracket. The product is designed with a lateral bypass to utilize each box as well as an overflow capability to eliminate the potential for street flooding in the event of a plugged filter.
The Ultra Urban Filter Drain Insert Series offers the same filtration characteristics of the CO series for stormwater filtration of hydrocarbons, trash and sediment. The unique micro porosity of Smart Sponge allows the DI2020 a hydraulic flow rate of more than 500 gallons per minute, and has proven effective in removing more than 80% of hydrocarbons and TSS (300 microns or greater). Additionally, a significant reduction in coliform bacteria can be obtained.
These units are designed to be suspended beneath a collar installed under the stormwater grates. This simple design allows easy access for maintenance while eliminating the potential for street flooding in the event of a plugged filter.
Customized drain inserts are available for those customers with shallow drains or requiring deeper bed depths. AbTech's team of engineers will work with our customers to understand the site characteristics, including hydraulics and contamination levels and will confirm the appropriate bed depth using Smart Paks to achieve the projects filtration goals.
AbTech's Smart Pak® is designed for use in new or existing vaults that experience oil and grease pollution accompanied by sediment, trash/debris, hydrocarbons, and coliform bacteria (when specified with Smart Sponge® Plus) . Smart Pak® helps users meet and/or exceed stormwater NPDES permit requirements with effective filtration, absorption, life expectancy and maintenance costs. Smart Pak® products are constructed out of AbTech's patented Smart Sponge® media which is a non hazardous, material, and can be specified for a new variety of applications. AbTech's Smart Pak® allows Smart Sponge® technology to be scaled to virtually any size required in an easy-to-maintain form. Used Smart Pak can be recycled as an energy source (BTU value of 10,000).
As an alternative to treating individual catch basins, Smart Sponge Vaults utilizing Smart Pak filtration modules are ideal for stormwater treatment at the end of pipe. Vault sizes can be adapted for various flow rates and contamination levels to solve a wide range of stormwater treatment issues.
Smart Sponge custom Vaults can also be engineered to treat a variety of large projects either as standalone applications or part of a treatment train to polish water working with retention ponds or hydrodynamic separators. These engineered solutions can be direct or radial flow, and can easily be adapted to treat first flush while allowing the later flow of a major storm event to pass around the systems to achieve the hydraulic requirements of the watershed.
AbTech Industries Smart Sponge® has proven itself as a vital tool to recover spilled oil. Smart Sponge® removes or reduces sheen, and does not absorb water during the process. The pollutants are transformed into a stable solid waste and oils will not leak or leach. Abtech's Oil recovery solutions are available in the forms of Booms, Line Skimmers, and Passive Skimmers.
AbTech's Tubular Absorbent Booms and Line Skimmers employ the Smart Sponge® Absorptive technology which rejects water while absorbing even sheen levels of hydrocarbons in low energy flow environments. Tubular Absorbent Booms and Line Skimmers are designed to absorb and encapsulate hydrocarbons and oil in non-confined water flows. No dewatering of oily water after removal Capable of remaining completely buoyant, even after being saturated will not deteriorate in water Products can be deployed long term and removed when convenient.
The Passive Skimmer is designed to absorb and encapsulate hydrocarbons by floating directly on the water in catch basins, sumps, oil/water separators and marine fueling stations. Passive Skimmers are made with Smart Sponge®and packaged in flexible mesh containers and are available in a variety of sizes.
The Smart Sponge® Non-Leaching Bilge Skimmer featuring the Smart Sponge® technology is engineered and designed for permanently encapsulating the petroleum hydrocarbons that appear as oily sheen in the engine compartment during normal boat operation. The Bilge Skimmer will absorb the contaminant and allow the boater to discharge clean water from the bilge pump.
AbTech's Monitoring Well Skimmer (MWS) is designed to absorb and encapsulate hydrocarbons by floating directly on the surface of the water in monitoring wells. The MWS utilizes a Smart Sponge propellet encased in flexible mesh designed to maintain structural integrity of the product as well as to allow maximum surface contact with the contaminant. The propellet slides over a reusable rod kit with a weight on one end and an attachment point for securing the deployment rope on the other. Propellet sleeves are available in a variety of sizes.
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Airports
Beaches
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