Oil Spill Clean up- ECO AC 2000 & O.O.P.S.

Oil spills can be cleaned up effectively with Microbond's Optimum Oil Petrol Sorbent (O.O.P.S.), a white foam type polyester sorbent material that instantly reacts to the ion bond of hydrogen in hydrocarbons.
O.O.P.S. is a safe, highly absorbent material that is an effective, 'low tech" solution to oil spills. Unlike carbon nanotubes, O.O.P.S. does not have any associated health risks. Nanotubes can be potientially risky if inhaled, despite being an exceptional sorbent of crude oil and dispersants. O.O.P.S is highly absorbent when compared to Granular Activated Carbon (GAC), a commonly used sorbent for cleaning up oil spills. However, GAC has a poor absorbency rate (pick up rate) at 5:1, which means 5 pounds of GAC are required for every pound of crude oil absorbed. By comparision, O.O.P.S. has a pick up rate of 1:20. This means that only one pound of O.O.P.S is required to absorb up to 20 pounds of crude oil, which is approximately 2.6 gallons of more, of oil.

Value:
1 million pounds of O.O.P.S. can absorb approximately 2.6 million gallons of crude oil.

1,000,000 lbs of O.O.P.S. absorbs 20 times its weight so,
1,000,000 x 20 lb = 20,000,000 lb

20,000,000 divided by 7.63 (lbs per gallon of oil) = 2,621,231 gallons of oil that can be absorbed bt O.O.P.S.

2,621,231 gal divided by 42 (gal in a barrel) = 62,410 barrels of oil that can be absorbed immediately and reclaimed.

5,200 gallons of oil that can be absorbed per ton of O.O.P.S.

Cool thing about this is that we can squeeze the oil out and possibly reuse the material.

Once material is soent and oil is squeezed out it can be co fired at a power plant.

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Science & Technology

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