Novel materials for sustainable oil spill response Rytkönen Sassi Tekes 18032015

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Novel materials for sustainable oil spill response HTC Building Pinta, Helsinki 18.3.2015 Jorma Rytkönen Finnish Environment Institute & Jukka Sassi VTT

Transcript of Novel materials for sustainable oil spill response Rytkönen Sassi Tekes 18032015

Novel materials for sustainable

oil spill response

HTC Building Pinta, Helsinki

18.3.2015

Jorma RytkönenFinnish Environment Institute

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Jukka SassiVTT

Contents

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● Basic Ideas

● Background

● R&D Needs

● Brush – Oil - Temperature ?

● R&D Need – New Approach

● ArcMaDe – Tasks & Partners

● More Information

Photo: J. Pirttijärvi, Syke

HYLJE at work – ”Runner 4 accident”

● ArcMaDe - Development of Novel Material for Arctic Oil Skimmers

● Joint need is focused into mechanical oil combating

● Brush recovery unit need to be checked against Arctic environment

and especially major oil types transported in the Arctic

● Finland has best mechanical systems available in the world – thus

confirming certain performance criteria better sales can be made

● Focus is also paid for the upgrading the Finnish brush technology to

get more international customers and manufacturing processes to

Finland

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Basic Ideas for joint industrial R&D in

Tekes -project “ArcMaDe”

Background

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● Mechanical oil recovery is perhaps

the most advanced principle for oil

combatting in the Arctic

● Mechanical recovery fleet is using

brush type skimmer technology

● There are numerous mechanical

recovery solutions based on brush

type solutions

● Most advanced brush type

solutions are designed and made

in Finland

Background

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● Typical mechanical recovery units for

ice conditions are for example:

○ Rope Mop skimmers,

○ Arctic skimmer (Lamor Ltd)

○ Polar Bear skimmer

○ Polaris Ice skimmer

○ Lori Ice Cleaner

○ Oil Ice Separator, LOIS

○ Oil recovery bucket

Polaris Ice skimmer(Framo)

Oil Recovery Bucket (Lamor)

Brush – Oil - Temperature ?

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● Even it seems the brush skimmer solution

is one of the most advanced type of

mechanical recovery options certain

problems exist such as:

○ Brush material vs. oil type – certain

bristles are nor valid for certain oil

types. Please, note diesel oil, light oil;

○ Even the raw material of certain

bristle type is the same, the lifting

capacity seems vary a lot for certain

type of oils ?

○ Lifting capacity for a set of oil types is

unknown and not tested scientifically;

○ Effect of ambient temperature is

unknown for lifting capacity, again

no data made based on scientific

analyses.

Length 2000 mm; diameter 1800 mm

● Optimizing brushes for:

○ Selected oil types

○ Wide temperature range

○ Arctic environment

○ Robust supply/icebreaker type platforms

● Looking solutions for:

○ Resistance for abrasion

○ Mechanical durability

○ In ice conditions

○ Protection of bristles against ice

○ Optimizing recovery results

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R&D Needs – New Approach

Tasks:

● T0: Project Management

● T1: State-of-the-art in the bristle R&D

with focus in arctic conditions

● T2: Performance of commercial and in-

house products and potential to enhance

oil recovery properties of brush fibers

● T3 & T4: Laboratory and macro scale

test trials of selected commercial and in-

house bristle types with selected oil

types

● T5: Full scale testing of bristle

performance

● T6: Dissemination

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DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL BRISTLE

MATERIAL FOR ARCTIC OIL SKIMMERS -

ArcMaDe

Arctic Oil Recovery Exercise “Kemi Arctic

2015”, 24 – 26 March 2015

Partners:

● VTT: Lead partner, responsible for the

laboratory/mesoscale testing and

material development

● Syke: End user, own design, recovery

fleet (19 ships)

● Lamor Corporation: End user,

commercialisation, manufacturing

body, sales

● Suomen Tekniset Harjat Oy: End

user, commercialization, manufacturing

body, sales

● Lassila & Tikanoja Oyj: Recycled

materials, sales

● WeldOne Oy: Manufacturing, technical

support for testing, sales

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DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL BRISTLE

MATERIAL FOR ARCTIC OIL SKIMMERS -

ArcMaDe

Lamor’s ”Sternmax” onboard AHTO –

ready for testing in Kemi !

Finnish Oil Recovery vessel LOUHI during the Oil-in-Ice exercise in Kalajoki, Finland, April 2013

More Information:

Finnish Environment Institute

[email protected]

VTT

[email protected]

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