INTEGRATED OIL CONTAINMENT AND RECOVERY SYSTEM

Abstract

ABSTRACT The primary goal of oil spill response crews is to prevent oil from going ashore. Thus, the measure of an oil spill recovery system's performance becomes the volume of spilled oil recovered per unit time. Throughout the 1980s and into the ‘90s, developments have been made which increase both the encounter and recovery rates of oil on water. The thesis of this paper is that the role of a recovery system is first to contain spilled oil and then to concentrate the oil such that skimmers may operate at their maximum rated capacity.