15-10-2014, 09:46 AM
Abstracts: They do it using a device called an oil water separator. Its really pretty simple. Water is heavier than oil so oil will rise to the top. That's the reason you can see the oil spill on the water in the gulf right now. If you have a container with a bottom drain and you fill it with a water and oil mixture the oil will float to the top and you drain the water from the bottom. Up to the present day a large number of significant marine oil spills had devastation consequences for the maritime and coastal environment followed by economical disasters for the local fishing industry and tourism. The risk of further oil spills is present every day. In these operating systems of the oil recovery fleet and their operational limitations are discussed. Basically all recovery systems can be assigned to four basic working principles.