The purpose of the study was assess the effectiveness of chemical emulsion breakers combined with rapid decanting and treatment of recovered oil when responding to an offshore oil spill. This effort builds upon previous project entitled 'Testing at Ohmsett to Determine Optimum Times to Decant to Temporary Storage Devices' Project 298, where S. L. Ross tested at Ohmsett, decanting at several different periods to determine the best time to separate excess water collected during oil spill clean-up operations. Know the proper time to decant will insure that the captured oil is not re-released in the water and it will allow the skimming vessel to remain on location longer. Adding chemicals to this operation will further aid water/oil separation and allow for more frequent and cleaner decanting.
Project is complete.