Oil Spill Clean Up Using a Cotton Sorbent.

Abstract

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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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA034955

Entities

People

  • A. A. Ball
  • G. F. Meenaghan
  • J. E. Halligan

Organizations

  • Texas Tech University

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Pollution
  • Calorimeters
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Control Panels
  • Databases
  • Environmental Protection
  • Heat Of Combustion
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Measurement
  • Nitrogen Oxides
  • Petroleum
  • Physical Properties
  • Test Facilities

Readers

  • Environmental Engineering.
  • Materials Science
  • Systems Analysis and Design