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Project Number 159
Date of Summary June 30, 1993
Subject Evaluation of Skimmers for Offshore and Ice-Infested Waters
Performing Activity Emergencies Engineering Division, Environment Canada
Principal Investigator Mr. Harry Whittaker
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Complete
Description The Minerals Management Service (MMS) initiated a cooperative effort with Environment Canada (EC) to participate in a joint evaluation of innovative skimming technology for oil spill cleanup offshore and in icy waters. Current skimmer technology for recovering oil in broken ice conditions was practically nonexistent. This project evaluated selected skimmers under both simulated and field conditions and produced performance data on which the adequacy of spill cleanup contingency plans can be assessed.
Progress Complete

Reports
AA (9 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Tsang, G., Vanderkooy, N., Development of a Novel Ice Oil Boom For Flowing Waters, Proceedings of the 1979 Oil Spill Conference, American Petroleum Institute, Washington, D.C., 1979.
AB (47 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Wartsila Marine Arctic Transportation `Ice Cleaner` Project, Wartsila Marine Arctic Transportation, Helsinki, Finland, November, 1988.
AC (28 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Bowen, S. J., Evaluation of the LIC Lori Ice Cleaner, Alaska Clean Seas, April 1991.
AD (30 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Latour, J.,Lori Ice Cleaner Trials and Equipment Evaluation, Canadian Coast Guard, January 1991.
AE (42 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Evaluation of the Foxtail Skimmer in Broken Ice, Counterspill Research Inc., for the Task Force on Oil Spill Preparedness, Technical Report Number 92-01, January 1992.
AF (7 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Solsberg, L. B., McGrath, M., Mechanical Recovery of Oil in Ice, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program Technical Seminar, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, pp. 427-437, June 10-12, 1992.

 

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