If you have, you might want to become one of the facilities that use PetroGuard for this application.  PetroGuard dramatically inhibits and/or eliminates the hydrolyzing effect of water based fire fighting foam on reactive chemicals.

OK…so you might be thinking ….REALLY?  Well, PetroGuard will absorb and instantly solidify hydrocarbon or silicone based liquid chemicals transforming them into a permanent and irreversible solid matrix that is impervious to water. Unlike neutralizer, the process is not a chemical reaction but is a physical process which makes responding to spills safer and easier.

Applying PetroGuard to a spill before the application of fire fighting foam and vapor production can be minimized or completely avoided!  This subsequently saves on labor costs because cleanup is quicker and more efficient.  Additionally, the suppression and subsequent elimination of vapor production allows the responders to carefully plan their next steps.  Since the chemicals would no longer be hydrolyzing, that would be the easy and safe removal of the solidified chemicals

So that’s pretty interesting right?  Well there’s another added benefit.   If the liquid chemical has any depth,  the application of PetroGuard will form an interface or “skin” on the surface.  This will effectively act to seal and eliminate vapor production. When foam is added as an additional layer of protection, the interface can then be punctured with a pump nozzle and the excess liquid can be pumped out leaving the solid matrix to be incinerated.

If you would like to find out how your facility can save money by using PetroGuard, contact us at http://www.guardianenvironmental.com/contact-us.

Not science fiction oil spill response

A new invention incorporating nano technology may soon be available to combat oil spills as well as provide method of delivering drugs to patients. Although it seem far-fetched, cleaning the oceans and other bodies of water from oil pollution would be a tremendous boon to mankind, not to mention the use of these mico-robots to deliver drugs to patients.

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This video shows how PetroGuard, a chemical spill absorbent, simplifies facility maintenance procedures as well as illustrating how a reactive chemical is instantly absorbed, solidified and disposed of.

Take just two minutes and watch how even the most reactive chemical can be immobilized and contained. And when all is said and done…you just burn baby burn and the hazardous chemical is gone!

Watch this video to see the magic of PetroGuard!

PetroGuard vs Titanium tetrachloride

When one of our customers was looking for a product that would not release toxic chemicals during routine facility maintenance in their plant, they came upon Guardian Environmental Technology’s PetroGuard as an alternative product that could be used simply and sparing for both small and large chemical spills.

They were using standard adsorption products for routine facility maintenance around the plant.  A labor efficiency study found that when using the standard adsorption products during routine facility maintenance, excess time was needed by plant maintenance staff because those products tend to re-release toxic chemicals upon clean up.

Because labor efficiency is being scrutinized on every level and the chemical industry is facing reduced workforces, the need for more productivity per person has escalated.

The question of how to save money without sacrificing safety and efficiency brought our customer to begin to use PetroGuard for most of their factory maintenance needs.

Now, not only is this customer saving money on maintenance labor costs, they are also saving money on over all absorption product cost because of the need to use so much less PetroGuard compared to using standard adsorption products for maintenance purposes.

Often times people think polymer absorption products cost more than conventional  adsportion products.  That is nothing more than a myth.  Without challenge the use of polymer absorption products for simple plant maintenance is far more efficient and labor cost saving than the lesser expensive products.  It’s simple math….  Less product is used and faster, more efficient absorption saves on labor.

Should Gulf oil spill dispersant, clean-up companies stay in the litigation?

There now is further evidence that the dispersant used to respond to the Gulf spill were dangerous to the environment and should never have been used.  Rather it now seems the responders and the Federal Government should have used more conventional absorbents and state of the art polymeric solidifying absorbents that would have had no effect on the environment. The companies that manufactured and were hired to dispense the dispersants, were included in the The Federal Civil penalties claims against BP, have asked to be dismissed from liability. The use of Advanced Absorption Technology as the alternative oil spill technology would have been a better choice. It also seems odd that the Federal Government that mandated the use of dispersants is now are suing the parties it hired to do the job. If the dispersants are now considered toxic enough to sue the manufacturer, then why did the government mandate their use? The use of Enhanced Molecular Capture absorbents should be considered for next oil spill.

It looks like there might be opportunities to present new or previously ignored technologies to respond to oil spills. However, according to this The Times-Picayune article, the same approaches will be used again in spite of previous failures.
The Marine Spill Response Corp., a nonprofit set up to help major oil companies respond to offshore spills, announced that it has completed a major expansion in the Gulf of Mexico. As the massive federal trial over the April 2010 BP oil spill is about to begin, the company used by BP and other oil giants said it had finished its "Deep Blue" program to give Gulf operators more resources to quickly respond to any future spills. Its member companies have committed more than $2 billion over the last two decades to develop surface spill response systems, butl that it had no budget for research, which seems rather odd. Lets hope that there will be some more open-mindedness when the next spill occurs to try some of the existing hitherto untried technologies.

It is ironic that US oil companies are prevented from exploiting our resources, while Communist China and Cuba are doing so a few miles off our Eastern seaboard.

Technology exists that can be extremely valuable in the planning and execution of responding to a release regardless of where it comes from.  Considering Cuba’s animosity to the US and China dismal record on environmental responsibility, this does not give any us comfort considering that our own response community continues to ignore some of these technologies.

While the search and rescue operation continues for 29 missing Costa Concordia passengers and crew, the Italian Admiralty and Coastguard, vessel insurers and Costa Crociere are meeting today to decide what happens next to the vessel that grounded Friday at Italy’s Giglio.

The ships fuel oil is apparently a heavy grade bunker oil, that could create extremely damaging conditions should it leak from its holding tanks. The salvors are planning to pump in seawater to force the oil to the top and then pump it to a waiting barge. However, due to the oil's viscosity, a steam-generating barge will attempt to heat the oil to make it flow more easily.

The dilemma is that there are still missing passengers who are being searched for. Commencing the offloading of the oil could halt any further search operation due to the dangers of the ship sliding into deeper water while divers are still conducting very hazardous operations. Removing the oil will change the ships dynamics and could cause it to sink into deeper water where salvage operations are more difficult. The island is home to a nature preserve and bird sanctuary.

At a time when this country desperately needs job creation, energy independence and lower gas prices, President Barack Husein Obama again sabotages another building block for an economic recovery. This is unconscionable (def. “…not right or reasonable…”) and deals another severe blow to this nation’s effort toward energy independence.  Canada’s Prime Minister told Obama a short while ago that if the Keystone pipeline is not approved, Canada will build the pipeline to Vancouver and ship the oil to China. Obama’s decision holds true to form. Decide what he feels is good for his re-election even if it hurts America. We can take solace in the fact that if he needs to make this radical move, it has to be to satisfy his far left base which is slipping away. He needs the money for his campaign and will do anything to get it. The pipeline would not have cost a single taxpayer dollar and would have created tens of thousands of jobs, if not hundreds of thousands.

In case anyone forgot, oil is the lifeblood of our economy.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/18/industry-source-state-department-will-reject-keystone-pipeline-reroute/#ixzz1jvFrJ0i6

Mexico’s environmental protection agency, Profepa, is supervising containment of the 1,500-barrel spill that killed fish, injured wildlife and left greasy slicks in the Coatzacoalcos river.

“Right now it is more about containing the emergency,” Profepa official Sergio Herrera told Reuters. “There will be further actions to clean the river, the banks of the river, and the zone where the damage has happened.”

Pemex blamed the December 31 leak in Veracruz state on vandalism. Fuel thieves routinely tap into Mexico’s network of pipelines to steal oil and gas for sale on the black market, often causing small spills.

The company has contracted 140 workers to clean up the mess, which it said was mostly contained in a lagoon near the affected valve.

In December 2010, 28 people were killed when a massive spill caused by an illegal pipeline tap east of Mexico City caught fire and exploded.

PetroGuard-D would make the cleanup operation here easier, cheaper and quicker while leaving the environment far less damaged. Since the oil appears to be already contained, using PetroGuard-D is idealy suited for this type of operation.

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