Title :
An Onboard Air Conveyer Oil Skimmer
Author :
Fujita, Isamu ; Yoshie, Muneo
Author_Institution :
Port & Airport Res. Inst., Kanagawa
Abstract :
A high power air conveyer oil skimming system and implementation on a real oil recovery vessel are presented. Port and Airport Research Institute (PARI) has succeeded in development of a new type of onboard oil recovery system. Development of the project has been in cooperation with the Shikoku Regional Bureau, Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport Japan (MLIT). The system employs a high-power vacuum blower for sucking liquid in gas-liquid multiphase form. Its applicability to an onboard oil recovery system has been experimentally investigated. The experiments have shown that the method can respond to the wide range of viscosity of the spilled oil and works well even in wavy sea condition. These results have been applied to the oil skimming system mounted on ISHIZUCH - an oil recovery vessel owned and operated by MLIT recently refitted by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., LTD
Keywords :
marine pollution; marine vehicles; oceanographic equipment; oil pollution; ISHIZUCH; MLIT; Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport Japan; Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., LTD; PARI; Port and Airport Research Institute; Shikoku Regional Bureau; air conveyer oil skimming system; gas-liquid multiphase form; high-power vacuum blower; liquid sucking; onboard oil recovery system; spilled oil viscosity; wavy sea condition; Accidents; Airports; Oil pollution; Petroleum; Pollution measurement; Protection; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Vacuum systems; Viscosity;
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS 2006
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0114-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0115-1
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.2006.307108
