High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) hydromechanical grease interceptors have become much more popular in the commercial plumbing engineering community. Why has this segment grown so quickly in the last 10 years? Here are seven reasons to consider.
Engineers are being given less and less area to place grease interceptors (or any of their systems for that matter). Utilizing a hydromechanical unit, in most cases, gives the designer a unit half the size and with more capacity. Hydromechanical units are flow-based separation (gpm) whereas gravity units are time-based separation. In many cases, a 100 gpm hydromechanical unit can hold much more grease than a 1,000 gallon gravity unit under the 25% rule.