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In late 1980s, a team which included Dolphin Services principal Michael Windsor, and later Richard Cummins, began designing a process using centrifugation to separate emulsions into three phases: water, oil, and solids. By early 1990s, they had successfully built a 3-phase centrifuge that separated emulsions according to densities. This waste processing technology was first deployed for use in oil recovery and oil reclamation facilities.

Just a few years after the 3-phase centrifuge was successfully built Dolphin Services’ principals formed MCS Technologies. MCS Technologies was an operation and service company created to introduce centrifuge technology into the refinery and chemical industries.

In 1995, MCS Technologies received a contract with a Gulf Coast refinery to design, build, and operate a facility to process hazardous and non-hazardous sludge streams produced within the refinery, pioneering the use of the 3-phase centrifuge within the refining industry. The principals also designed a process for the secondary treatment of solids utilizing methods such as coker injection and cement kiln fuel. By 2002, MCS Technologies had become one of the fastest growing refinery waste processing companies in the United States.

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