OIL SPILL CLEAN UP USING A COTTON SORBENT
A 19-month study was conducted to develop a sorbent dispersal, retrieval, and disposal system using cotton wastes to combat oil pollution. A test program developed the design data base required to evaluate the concept as well as the system components. Major variables studied included crude oil type, sorbent to oil weight ratios, sorbent contact time, removal efficiencies, squeezing techniques, disposal via incineration, and air pollution parameters. It is concluded that the concept of using cotton as an oil spill clean-up agent is viable and that the system as operated was capable of retrieving approximately 95% of the oil confronted for water velocities of 2 feet per second or less and dispersion ratios of 0.05 (or greater) pounds of cotton per pound of oil.
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Corporate Authors:
Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Department of Chemical Engineering
Lubbock, TX United States 79409 -
Authors:
- Halligan, J E
- Ball, A A
- Meenaghan, G F
- Publication Date: 1976-1
Media Info
- Pagination: 144 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Absorbents; Air pollution; Cleansers; Cotton; Dispersers; Economic efficiency; Feasibility analysis; Fibers; Incinerators; Mixtures; Oil sorbents; Oil spill cleanup; Oil spills; Sorption; Waste disposal; Water quality management
- Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency; Experimental data; Recovery
- Old TRIS Terms: Absorbers materials; Dispersing; Low costs; Oil removal; Oil spill control; Water pollution control equipment
- Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Marine Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00151126
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
- Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt., USCG-D-63-76
- Contract Numbers: DOT-CG-42557-A
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Mar 30 1977 12:00AM