Disposal of oil spill cleanup collections
When in-situ ignition and burning oil slicks is not feasible, skimming the oil slicks by means of skimmer vessels has been used. The skimmer vessels collect the oil from the oil slick locations with a significant amount of water, such as 9 gallons of water for each gallon of oil recovered. The containment tanks associated with such skimmer vessels are rapidly filled with volumetrically large oil and water collections having relatively small amounts of the oil requiring frequent returns to shore for off-loading, causing interruptions in the cleanup operation during which oil slick spreading occurs. Because of such cleanup interruption difficulty, oil combustion aboard the skimming vessel may be used for a more rapid and continuous cleanup operation. However, such on-board combustion of the collected oil also involves considerable air pollution from in-situ discharge of gas combustion products.
- Research Organization:
- Department of the Navy, Washington, DC (United States)
- Assignee:
- Department of the Navy, Washington, DC
- Application Number:
- PAN: 8-566,224; TRN: 71340349
- OSTI ID:
- 483965
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 1 Dec 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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