Air-driven recovery units that lift the spill off the floor and pump it into a drum — then empty that drum through the same hose.
A spill vacuum is not a wet vacuum with a different label. It has to lift viscous material as well as free liquid, hold it safely, and then discharge it into a container that can leave site — without anyone lifting a full drum.
That is why the units here are air-driven and two-way. Compressed air generates the vacuum through venturis, so there is no motor to fail in a wet environment and no ignition source if the spill is flammable. Turn a valve and the same air pushes the recovered fluid back out through the hose into a second drum.
Both mount to standard 44, 55, 205 and 210 litre steel drums, so the container is one you already stock and the waste leaves in it.
A pneumatic power unit on a galvanised lid turns a steel drum into the recovery vessel. Wet and dry, 60 to 180 CFM, with reverse pump-out to empty into a second drum. The workhorse of spill recovery.
The compact option — a venturi head that screws straight into a drum bung. 20 to 60 CFM, two-way, and the quickest way to put spill recovery on a site that already runs drums.
The fluid and its flash point, roughly how much and how often, how far from the drum you need to reach, and the compressed air you can actually deliver at the work front. That is enough for us to specify it properly.
Trolley-mounted and stainless tank units are being added to this category. If you need one now, ask — they are all built to order anyway.
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