Grease traps need to be regularly cleaned. When something goes wrong with your grease trap such as water overflowing from the grease trap, you need to know which grease trap part is causing the problem. Or for grease trap services, their men will know exactly which part to fix. So let us find out the different parts of a grease trap.
Filter bucket
Grease trap parts include a filter bucket at the bottom of the trap’s main body to receive the heavier waste solids which sink to the bottom of the bucket.
Initially, oil fat naturally rises to the water surface after waste water from a source enters the grease trap. This separation process is known as a gravity separation process and uses the filter bucket as the end destination. The intermediately cleaned water layer is washed out from the filter bucket and is made to flow through the drainage system via the outlet socket.
The filter bucket, the main part of the grease trap has an elongated handle which prevents the cleaning person from coming in contact with the waste when removing the bucket content.
Other grease trap parts are the inlet socket, outlet socket, frame and the access cover or lid which is removed when cleaning the trap.
Inlet and outlet chambers
The inlet socket directly leads to the inlet chamber where the waste water initially flows. A baffle of the inlet chamber has the capability to retain untrapped solids in the same chamber.
Waste water flows through gravity from the inlet chamber and to the settlement chamber forming a buffer zone where waste water circulates at natural currents to lower temperature of the remaining grease before waste water flows into the outlet chamber.
An outlet chamber collects the remaining grease out of the waste water prior to retention to the perforated filtering bucket and before flowing through the outlet socket also by gravity. The outlet chamber is also provided with a baffle which retains any untrapped solids in this particular chamber. Perforated holes of the filtering bucket allows water to pass uninterrupted while at the same time retaining waste solids.
Removable lid
A removable cover is set on top of the grease trap to provide accessibility to the inside of the grease trap when clearing or cleaning the grease trap. The cover or lid must have a gasket to properly seal the grease trap and prevent water from overflowing when water passes through the grease trap chambers.
An automatic grease trap may include a center module which is also provided with a digital time controller, a heater unit and a mechanized skimmer.