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Project Number 298
Date of Summary June 15, 2001
Subject Testing at Ohmsett to Determine Optimum Times to Decant to Temporary Storage Devices
Performing Activity S.L. Ross Environmental Research
Principal Investigator Ian Buist
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Complete
Description The Objective of this study is to conduct full-scale tests of recovered oil/emulsion/water separation rates at OHMSETT in order to predict the optimum time for decanting separated water in temporary storage devices.
Progress A preliminary laboratory-scale study was conducted for Alaska Clean Seas (ACS) in December 1997 to identify some of the factors that determine the optimum separation time for the Alaska North Slope (ANS) and Milne Pt. Crude oils. The results of the study were developed as a draft standard on storage device decanting procedures for consideration by the ASTM F20.12 subcommittee on recovery. The testing phase was completed November 9-20, 1998 at the Ohmsett facility.
  Project work is completed.

Reports
AA (2.0MB)  PDF Testing at Ohmsett Test to Determine Optimum Times to Decant Simple Temporary Storage Devices, Final Report, submitted by S.L. Ross Environmental Research Ottawa, Canada, July 12, 1999.
AB (1.0MB)  PDF Buist, I., McCourt, J., Potter, S., Smith, R., Schmidt, W., DeVitis, D., Ohmsett Tests to Determine Optimum Times to Decant Temporary Storage Devices, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, Ottawa, ON, pp. 781-802, 1999.

 

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