Techno-economic feasibility of different sobents for Oil Spill prevention in Seawater
Keywords:
Crude Oil, Inorganic sorbent, Natural sorbent, Oil spill, Synthetic sorbentscAbstract
Oil Industries are playing vital role in economy and prosperity of any countries in the world. Oil Spill is one of
the major environmental issue. The immediate and long-term impacts of oil spills on marine life, human health and
revenue of a country is huge and irreversible.
Out of many techniques being used for Oil Spill clean-up, use of Sorbents provide useful resource in response to spill of
oil.
In this thesis, various sorbents are evaluated for its sorption capacity, effectiveness and feasibility in removal of spills.
The experiments are carried out in the laboratory scale. This studies concentrate on the technical and economic feasibility
of the sorbents used in the oil spill prevention.
Three different sorbents Natural Organic Sorbent , Synthetic Organic Sorbent and Synthetic Inorganic Sorbent were
examined and evaluated for their techno-economic feasibility against three different oils i.e. Crude Oil, Light Chain Oil
and Light Gas Oil.
The results showed that natural organic sorbent in Crude Oil and LGO cases, have higher absorption capacities
comparable to other two sorbents, while Synthetic Inorganic Sorbent shows better in Light Chain Oil. The experiments
showed Natural Organic Sorbent is best for crude oil spilled on the sea water surface.
