Oil contamination clean-up tech makes global debut in Oman
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Published: 02:09 PM,Sep 29,2023 | EDITED : 06:09 PM,Sep 29,2023
A small production-scale system was constructed in the UK and shipped to Oman to conduct a demonstration project for Petroleum Development Oman at their waste yard in Nimr.
A UK-based technology start-up has announced the successful field trial of an innovation that uses a little-known property of water to process oil production sludges rapidly and inexpensively.
The green tech, developed by Envorem with assistance from the University of Brighton, uses very little energy to disassemble sludges, clean the solids, and recover the entrained oil for recycling — all without generating emissions.
A small production-scale system was constructed in the UK and shipped to Oman to conduct a demonstration project for Petroleum Development Oman at their waste yard in Nimr.
The scope of the demonstration project was to treat two separate types of feedstocks, highly hydrocarbon-contaminated sandy soil and oily sludges with an emphasis on sludge treatment. The sludge was extracted from the surface layers, mid-layer, and bottom from a pit and, directly from tankers.
The results of the project were that the technology over-performed in every measure.
The system consistently operated at four times its specified throughput, the TPH of the solids was reduced to better than half the specified limit of 10,000 ppm, and approximately 2.4 barrels of oil per tonne of sludge were recovered.
The project proved that Envorem’s system recovers 99.5 percent of the oil from the sludge. Its speed of processing was striking, in comparison to a thermal system with a five tonnes per hour capacity, Envorem’s system of a similar size would process 10 times as much.
Last November, Envorem MD, Mark Batt-Rawden announced that Envorem would build the world’s largest mobile Greentech system for treating huge volumes of sand and sludge.
Financed by the UK Government Innovation Department (IUK) and private investors, the build is now well underway and is scheduled for completion in December 2023.
The system will process an unparalleled volume of material, up to 100,000 liters of liquid sludge every hour or 25 tonnes of soil per hour — all without generating any emissions.
The green tech, developed by Envorem with assistance from the University of Brighton, uses very little energy to disassemble sludges, clean the solids, and recover the entrained oil for recycling — all without generating emissions.
A small production-scale system was constructed in the UK and shipped to Oman to conduct a demonstration project for Petroleum Development Oman at their waste yard in Nimr.
The scope of the demonstration project was to treat two separate types of feedstocks, highly hydrocarbon-contaminated sandy soil and oily sludges with an emphasis on sludge treatment. The sludge was extracted from the surface layers, mid-layer, and bottom from a pit and, directly from tankers.
The results of the project were that the technology over-performed in every measure.
The system consistently operated at four times its specified throughput, the TPH of the solids was reduced to better than half the specified limit of 10,000 ppm, and approximately 2.4 barrels of oil per tonne of sludge were recovered.
The project proved that Envorem’s system recovers 99.5 percent of the oil from the sludge. Its speed of processing was striking, in comparison to a thermal system with a five tonnes per hour capacity, Envorem’s system of a similar size would process 10 times as much.
Last November, Envorem MD, Mark Batt-Rawden announced that Envorem would build the world’s largest mobile Greentech system for treating huge volumes of sand and sludge.
Financed by the UK Government Innovation Department (IUK) and private investors, the build is now well underway and is scheduled for completion in December 2023.
The system will process an unparalleled volume of material, up to 100,000 liters of liquid sludge every hour or 25 tonnes of soil per hour — all without generating any emissions.