Shop cleanup without a floor drain

My shop doesn't have a proper double trap for the floor drain.  I am careful to not send oil down it, and have a silt trap built into it, but the city sewer department is coming by to do an inspection, and I would bet pretty good money I won't have any sort of floor drain by the end of the day.

I have read somewhere, in the past, about a small boiler? cooker? whatever? that takes your floor washing remnants, and cooks it down to an easily disposed neutral product.  My google skills are failing me.

Anybody got any knowledge in this area?

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

My man, that oil on the floor is known as creeper grease. It's the old slip and slide for your oil changes

Is this a commercial shop, or a residential one?

Commercial.

Dont you have grandfathered in laws?

Can you make the drain disappear for the day?

Is it your property or is this about to become the landlord's problem?

Pete

Damn shame you've got that support post for the roof in that spot, sure would be more convenient if there wasn't a 6x6 beam in the middle of the floor.... 

Screw a cap in it so now its a cleanout?

TR7 said:

Screw a cap in it so now its a cleanout?

That's your answer.

Are you sure there is not an oil/water seperator?  Floor drains are common.  I doubt they will make you eliminage it.

This drain is a very crude thing, formed up and poured with the new floor, on top of an old floor.  It is about eight inches deep at the oulet end, about a foot wide, and twenty feet long.  There is a sediment blocking apparatus I built to keep the two inch outlet from blocking, but zero for oil capture.  

It's illegal as hell, and has been for as long as I've been in the building.

So, nobody is familiar with a sludge boiler?  I don't think I'm imagining it.  Some guy on Iatn wrote about it a decade or so ago, when there was a discussion about greening of auto shops.

Nope. Never heard of it. 

I’ve been building auto shops for about 5 years. 20-30 bay. Prior to that, I was building chemical plants.

Most of the shops are now choosing to have no floor drains. Avoids EPA issues. When we do install a floor drain, it goes to a gravity fed oil/water separator, then drains to sewer. 

Its really easy to cover the drain and use absorbent pads and dams. And totally legal. 

You can do the same thing to wash the floor. You just need to capture it before it goes down the drain. 

If the sewer inspector has issue with it, all you should have to do is give him a copy of your written containment plan.