Posted by Bill Litwin on Mon, May 03, 2010 @ 09:48 AM
The recent and ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has demonstrated the limitations of responding to this kind of an oil spill. Unfortunately those responsible have been overwhelmed and continue to employ the old technology they have been using for decades showing a mindset to not even consider a possible better solutions that would prevent some of the undesired results being experienced now.
Using an oil spill solidifying agent such as PetroGuard (the original product of this sort) would allow responders to actually remove oil from the surface of the water in three easy steps: application, collection and removal.
PetroGuard is a dry, white granular high capacity instant solidifying absorbent. PetroGuard is used to immobilize liquid hydrocarbon and chlorocarbon spills on land or water to a recoverable solid, with minimal overall volumetric increase. The most unique and important characteristic of PetroGuard is that once absorbed, liquids will not be released, even under pressure. This means that even if the solified matrix comes in contact with anything, it will not contaminate or release oil. The image below is the ideal area to use PetroGuard to absorb and solidify the floating oil. Even if the solidified matrix drifts to the shoreline, it will not contaminate anything while waiting to be removed. Removal is as simple as collecting the solid (no oil drips) and bagging it, for transfer to a collection site.
Disposal of the solidified oil by incineration has the double positive effect of use in cogeneration plants as a blending fuel to create energy. Make it work for us!
Please watch the video demonstration at:
http://www.guardianenvironmental.com/video1/