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A New Technology to Combat Oil Spills on Water Surface Using a Ribbed-Grooved Disc Skimmer.

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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In offshore oil spills a thin oil layer has to be skimmed off from the sea surface. A mechanism for cleanup of oil spill from water surface was developed using a ribbed grooved rotating disc. The effect of various compound surface configurations of the two opposite walls of the considered ribbed-grooved disc on the oil recovery performance was investigated for various disc rotational speed. Tests have been carried out for recovering fresh oil spill as well as weathered oil spill. Generally this clean up operation has to be carried out in sea water with different conditions, so the oil recovery performance of the considered rotating ribbed-grooved discs was studied for calm water surface and also in the presence of various wind speeds and water surface waves. The results show that the oil recovery performance of the ribbed-grooved disc is the highest in comparson to the other considered rotating discs. The ribs and grooves on the opposite walls of the rotating disc enhances the oil recovery rate by 2-2.5 times of the original flat rotating disc. The results also emphasized that a good oil recovery rate can be achieved even in tough meteorological conditions. 
 

DOI

10.21608/bfemu.2021.148753

Authors

First Name

Nabil

Last Name

El-Minshawy

MiddleName

A. S.

Affiliation

Assistant Professor., Mechanical Power Engineering Department., Suez Canal University.

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Mansoura

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Volume

24

Article Issue

4

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21260

Issue Date

1999-12-01

Receive Date

1999-10-11

Publish Date

2021-12-01

Page Start

27

Page End

46

Print ISSN

1110-0923

Online ISSN

2735-4202

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BFEMU_Volume 24_Issue 4_Pages 27-46.pdf

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MEJ. Mansoura Engineering Journal

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A New Technology to Combat Oil Spills on Water Surface Using a Ribbed-Grooved Disc Skimmer.

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22 Jan 2023