Development of a Novel Efficient Marine Oil Spill Cleaner with Advanced Control Technology

Abstract:

Oil spill occurs frequently on the ocean. The amount of oil spill is 900 million tons from 2001 to 2010 in total, which resulted in enormous environment pollution and economic loss. The disadvantages of conventional methods such as pipe pumping method are high-energy-consuming, inefficient and high-cost. In this paper, a new method was proposed and a novel efficient oil spill cleaner was developed, which can recover 25kg oil per hour despite only 4kg weight of the cleaner itself. By using image recognition, advanced control algorithm, and roller extrusion, oil spill is detected and recovered automatically and effectively. The new method can decrease 60% energy consumption and triple the oil recovering rate. It can be concluded that this oil spill cleaner is an ideal prototype of the large novel marine oil spill recovery vessels.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 616-618)
• Pages: 1208-1211
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.616-618.1208
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Hao Fei Wang, Tuo Wang, Ci Song, Wang Ze Du, Jian Gang Lu
• Keywords: Cleaner, Control Technology, Marine Oil Spill Recovery Vessel, Oil Spill

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