My swimming pool heat pump got flooded and release oil in the water, how do I get rid of that oil ?

Answer 1

The best thing to use is a product called Pool First Aid from Natural Chemistry. Is it an enzyme formula that will break down the oil naturally and quickly. Most other methods really won't help too much. (or be a lot more work...) If it's really bad, use more than the directions suggest for your size pool (no harm in doing this since it is a natural enzyme). Here is the link to it on the Internet:

http://www.naturalchemistry.com/pool/sto...

I've had many success stories from this...

Answer 2

Handson 64 has the correct answers, use foam products in the skimmers, and add some enzymes to the waters chemistry. You can buy these types of products specifically for use in a swimming pool. You may also want to adjust your valves so that you have more suction flowing through your skimmers to strain the surface water more quickly. Clean or backwash you filter and use a filter cleaner/degreaser. Any pool supply will carry these types of products.

Answer 3

From what I have seen, penguins soak it up real good.

Or:
"Absorbent foam products can also be used to physically remove oils from the water. Manufacturers of the products say the patented molecular structure and cell design of the foam allows it to absorb many times its own weight in oil. When the foam is saturated with oil, it turns a dark color, becomes heavy and sinks. The foam can be replaced, or for a period of time can be cleaned and reused by removing the absorbent foam from the pool skimmer, hair and lint strainer or filter tank, squeezing out the oils and replacing it in its hidden location."

Detergents will break up the oil droplets, but then it still has to be removed. Will the filter handle this??

Enzyme products can physically break down the oil.

Answer 4

Go to a marine equipment store and ask for an elephant diaper. It's an 18 X 18 inch pad that will absorb oil but not water (for a few days). We get them on my ship in boxes of 100 and they cost about a buck apiece. A slight sheen will probably remain on the water no matter what you do until it evaporates by itself. Leave it in the sun to help evaporation.

Answer 5

Turn off the circulating pump. Try sawdust or pellet stove fuel (compressed sawdust). The oil floats on the surface as does the sawdust. The dust will soak in the oil, and can be skimmed.

Answer 6

drain the water scrub the pool degreaser dish liquid

Answer 7

we'll soak with warm water, and soap and try to drain it out with some pipe or tube.

Answer 8

You can use aether, gasoline, benzene or diesel to dissolve it. Also, laundry soap can help.

Answer 9

dawn soap is going to be the way to go, that and repeated filtering.

Answer 10

Dish washing soap, and oats...