Ecoceane’s WORKGLOP® 128 wastes no time hoovering up at Interspill 2012
06 March 2012by ubi -- last modified 06 March 2012
Ecoceane of France, a company specialising in vessels that collect floating debris and hydrocarbons, will present its new ship at Interspill 2012 — the WORKGLOP® 128. This unique anti-pollution vessel will be moored alongside the ExCeL exhibition centre in London (UK) from 13 to 15 March 2012. Ecoceane’s proven technology, which hoovers up waterborne waste in an emulsion-free manner, was used to clean up the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Ecoceane of France, a company specialising in vessels that collect floating debris and hydrocarbons, will present its new ship at Interspill 2012 — the WORKGLOP® 128. This unique anti-pollution vessel will be moored alongside the ExCeL exhibition centre in London (UK) from 13 to 15 March 2012. Ecoceane’s proven technology, which hoovers up waterborne waste in an emulsion-free manner, was used to clean up the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
WORKGLOP® 128 acts as a vacuum cleaner across the surface of the sea, capable of recovering waterborne pollution at a speed of 80m³/h. Ecoceane will demonstrate the unique effectiveness of its WORKGLOP® 128, the company’s premier ship for marine depollution, at the Interspill 2012 trade fair, to be held from 13 to 15 of this month at the ExCeL exhibition centre in Docklands (London). The WORKGLOP® 128 will be moored opposite Entry 4 of Interspill at ExCeL; Ecoceane will be on Stand U300 (Hall 5).
The WORKGLOP® range, at the cutting edge of Ecoceane’s technology, supplies an array of services, combined with the recovery of floating solids and liquid waste. These ships are to be used for the protection of large industrial and commercial ports and that of the shoreline, and in the oil-and-gas sector.
The Ecoceane ships are fitted out with hydraulic aluminium self-floating booms, connected at the stern by a transversal axis, which makes it possible to work simultaneously on different planes. The booms are constantly in the optimum position on top of the waves and enable all the vessels in the WORKGLOP® range (106, 117 and 128) to work effectively in bad weather, including in conditions where winds and/or waves are up to Force 6.
In order to augment its storage capacity and to make possible continuous work on a polluted site, the ships in the WORKGLOP® range are permanently equipped with a system for transferring collected hydrocarbons.
From the starting of the engine, the Ecoceane ships filter the water that is passing between the ship’s hulls: macro-waste material is stopped by a basket-container, and the hydrocarbons pass into a separator where they are stored as they float. This technology has been patented.
Most importantly, the Ecoceane collection system does not create emulsion. If the recovered pollution is already emulsified, it cannot be transferred, as the transfer pump always sucks in the hydrocarbons above the water (and above the emulsion). When the separator is full of emulsion, it is isolated and heated — using a keel-cooling system and a generating unit — in order to separate the hydrocarbons from the water.
The WORKGLOP® 128 constitutes a major innovation, for which Ecoceane was awarded A T Kearney’s Best Innovator Prize. The company has also received the Top Innovation Prize for good environmental practice by the Association des techniciens et professionnels du pétrole (AFTP, the French Association of Oil Industry Engineers and Technicians) at the Annual Hydrocarbon Day 2011 in France.
“The cleaning and the depollution of the sea and of [other] waters are essential for life in the Gulf. [...] I am proud to support the launching of an innovative French technology which we need to preserve effectively the sea and the water throughout the world for future generations,” says Sheikh Hassan Bin Jabor Al-Thani of Qatar, a water-sport enthusiast and a sponsor of the WORKGLOP® 128.
Ecoceane’s innovative solutions are recognised worldwide, and proved highly effective in the Gulf of Mexico, in the USA, following the Deep Water Horizon disaster of 2010.
Ecoceane has been marketing its range of ships and services in relation to hydrocarbon recovery for the oil-and-gas industries in the USA, and in local communities and ports worldwide. Today 85% of the company’s turnover is achieved through export sales.
“France is proud to count innovative SMEs such as Ecoceane as a driving force of green growth. Ecoceane’s activity and technology are fully in line with the strategic priorities [of the French government], bringing forth new technologies to secure the oil and gas platforms and ‘motorways of the sea’,” explains Ms Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, former Minister of Ecology in France.
The capacity of an ultra-large crude carrier (ULCC) reaches 500,000 metric tons and 2.6 billon metric tons of crude oil were transported by sea in 2008. Ensuring the safety of the shoreline, coasts, ‘motorways of the sea’, and fisheries, as well as the conservation of the biotope, are the major maritime issues of the 21st century, imposing on states the need for a concerted policy on disaster prevention and intervention.
About Ecoceane
Established in 2003, Ecoceane is devoted exclusively to the R&D, construction, and marketing of ships (for which it holds patents internationally) that collect hydrocarbons and solid debris floating in water. Integrated in the company’s structure is an R&D facility and a naval dockyard that focuses on aluminium construction.
Ecoceane specialises in marine depollution and the improvement in the quality of stretches of water. The company offers solutions for the collection and storage of macro-waste and floating hydrocarbons. These solutions are effective in the open sea, but also in ports, estuaries, lakes, canals and rivers. Three ranges of ships have been developed by Ecoceane: CATAGLOP®, SPILLGLOP® and WORKGLOP®.
Ecoceane is supported by OSEO Innovation, an agency of the French government that finances innovation in SMEs, as well as by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Every three years, Interspill brings together the principal organisations dealing with maritime depollution, such as coastguard agencies based in the North Atlantic, entities responsible for maritime safety, and players involved in sustainable development.
Ecoceane will host a demonstration at the Interspill 2012 trade show on 14 March 2012, in the ExCeL marina. It will be followed by a drinks reception reserved for public- and private-sector decision makers from the industry, which will take place on the Borda, a vessel of the French Navy that is part of its Oceanographic Service.
These events will be supported by the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing; by UBIFRANCE; by the French Maritime Cluster; by the French Navy; and, finally, by OSEO.
The WORKGLOP® 128 will be moored opposite Entry 4 of Interspill at the ExCeL exhibition centre (in London). Ecoceane will be on Stand U300 (Hall 5) at the trade show.
Those wishing to attend the drinks reception should contact Mr Rémy Ausset by email (interspill2012@ecoceane.com), or get in touch with Ms Katherine Woods, Press Officer of the French Trade Commission UBIFRANCE in London.
For further information about Interspill, please go to: http://www.interspill2012.com/
For further information about Ecoceane, please go to: www.ecoceane.com
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