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Aquatic Oil Spill Remediation by CSASSBs- Cork Sorbent Carrying Automated Sub-Surface Boats
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 77th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2015, Jun 2015, Volume 2015, cp-451-00949
Abstract
Oil spills are environmental catastrophes, which not only lead to major economic losses, but also lead to the destruction of marine ecosystem and loss of aquatic life. These can happen as a result of simple dumping of crude by tankers to spilling of oil in major accidents. The paper briefly discusses the present trend in removal of slick, and puts forward a revolutionary methodology for the same in the form of CSASSB,Cork Sorbent carrying Automated Sub-Surface Boats. The paper is divided into two parts; the first part discusses the effectiveness of the use of CSASSBs, and compares it with the currently used counterparts. The second part discusses the suitability of Cork as the appropriate adsorbing material. The CSASSB has several advantages over the ships that are currently being used, they are more fuel efficient, and also have a larger sorbent bags is to base area ratio. The use of Cork as a sorbent has its own advantages,it is organic and does not cause harm to the environment. The combination of these two revolutionary techniques gives rise to a new comprehensive method for remediation of oil spill sites.