Process and Means for Treatment of an Oil Spill
First Claim
1. Method to bring an absorption agent, in particular dried, hydrophobic and oleophilic peat moss, to oil spills at sea or on a lake from a plane, helicopter or ship so that the peat moss is spread out over the oil phase and absorbs and isolates the oil phase from the water phase so that it can be collected as a particulate mass, so that it can be treated further as a particulate mass with encapsulated oil in the pores, characterised in that the absorption agent (the peat moss) is compressed and enwrapped into a packaging that comprises a release mechanism which can release the peat moss from the packaging so that it is spread freely into or over the oil pollution, and the oil is then collected and processed further.
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Abstract
A method and a device are described to be able to neutralise the damages from an oil spill at sea or on a lake by rapid addition of an absorbent where this can also be carried out in very poor weather, and also a method to remove oil spills as particulate absorbed material, store this at sea and thereafter transport this ashore, and also process the spill further ashore. An application of the method is described for oil protection emergencies and in oil spills at sea or in lakes.
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- 1. Method to bring an absorption agent, in particular dried, hydrophobic and oleophilic peat moss, to oil spills at sea or on a lake from a plane, helicopter or ship so that the peat moss is spread out over the oil phase and absorbs and isolates the oil phase from the water phase so that it can be collected as a particulate mass, so that it can be treated further as a particulate mass with encapsulated oil in the pores, characterised in that the absorption agent (the peat moss) is compressed and enwrapped into a packaging that comprises a release mechanism which can release the peat moss from the packaging so that it is spread freely into or over the oil pollution, and the oil is then collected and processed further.
- 14. Device for transport of an absorption agent, such as peat moss, to be spread over a spill of a pollutant, such as oil, for absorption of the same, characterised in that the absorption agent is compressed and stored in a packaging (a bag) that comprises a means for deformation of the packaging for subsequent release of the absorption agent from the packaging.
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