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Main Title Oil/Water separation system with sea skimmer /
Author Wimpress, D. S.,
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Goodsell, R. A.,
Lewis, R. W.,
Fallon, J.,
Wimpress, D. S.
CORP Author AiResearch Manufacturing Company of Los Angeles (Calif.)
Publisher United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Monitoring,
Year Published 1970
Report Number EPA15080-DJP-10/70; W7213253
OCLC Number 00525115
Subjects Oil spills ; Oil separators
Internet Access
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https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=9101N37G.PDF
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EJBD  EPA 15080-DJP-10-70 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 06/26/2015
EKCM  TD427.P4G35 CEMM/GEMMD Library/Gulf Breeze,FL 01/11/1991
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 15080-DJP-10-70 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
Collation xi, 187 pages : illustrations, figures, tables ; 28 cm
Notes
"October 1970." Sponsored by U.S. EPA Contract Number: 14-12-524 Includes bibliographical references (page 157).
Contents Notes
The design, construction, and testing of, an oil skimming and separation system capable of processing 30,000 gallons per hour, and operating on the open ocean under Sea State 3 conditions is described. A 45 x 26-foot twin-hulled barge, which contained an entrance paddle wheel and self-adjusting skimming weirs, was built to support the skimming and separation equipment. A 500-gpm centrifuge was used to reduce the oil content of the discharge water to less than 100 ppm. The recovered oil contained less than 5 percent water. The oil content of the discharge water could be reduced to less than 20 ppm by recycling it through the centrifuge a second time. Intentionally spilled oils of API 15, 26, and 35 gravities were recovered and separated, as were weathered oil slicks. The centrifuge was particularly useful in separating the mixtures of water and the higher API gravity oils.