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Project Number 180
Date of Summary March 19, 2007
Subject Testing and Evaluation of Sorbents
Performing Activity SAIC-Canada
Principal Investigator Mr. David Cooper
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Completed
Description This is a Joint Industry Project (JIP) between MMS and Environment Canada to investigate the performance of sorbent materials used in the remediation of oil spills. A database will be developed to provide responders with firsthand information during a spill. The objectives of this study include: (1) develop a test procedure for sorbents used for oil spill remediation; (2) test these products to ensure repeatable, reliable, and representative data; and (3) generate a database of information from testing results to determine certifiable criteria.
Progress Construction of the sorbent database is complete.  The database is available through the Internet at http://www.etc-cte.ec.gc.ca/databases/Sorbent/Default.aspx. Manufacturers who test their sorbents at Ohmsett - The National Oil Spill Response Test Facility will have the opportunity to have their product tested with the new American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) protocol and results listed in the database, free of charge.  More than 20 new sorbent entries were recently added to the database. 

Reports
AA (18 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Selection Criteria and Laboratory Evaluation of Oil spill Sorbents: Update IV, S. L. Ross Environmental Research Limited, Emergencies Engineering Division, Environment Canada, Report EPS/3/SP/3, June 1991.
AB (80 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cooper, D., Keller, L., Oil Spill Sorbents: Testing Protocol and Certification Listing Program, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program Technical Seminar, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, pp. 479-496, June 1991.
AC (15 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cooper, D., Gausemel, I., Oil Spill Sorbents: Testing Protocol and Certification Listing Program, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Biennial Conference on the Prevention, Behavior, Control, and Cleanup of Oil Spills, pp. 549-551, Tampa, Florida, March 29 - April 1, 1993.
AD (12 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Simple Test Guidelines for Screening Oil Spill Sorbents for Toxicity, Proceedings of the Twenty-First Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program Technical Seminar Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, pp 473-483, 1998.
AE (35 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Sorbent Test Program 1999-2000, Interim Report, Emergencies Engineering Technologies Office, SAIC Canada, March 1999.

 

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