Construction of an economic blanket belt oil skimmer
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2017Author
KHANDAKAR, Sumon
ISLAM, Md. Nasiqul
RUBEL, Robiul İslam
YUSUF, Sk. Suzauddin
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In this era of modern civilization, liquid fuel transport is mandatory around the world. But there
has been several oil spilling accidents around the world and their negative effects are against all
the living elements. In the last decades Bangladesh face such problem randomly in sea area and as
well as in the river side damaging a large number of livings alongside the river having a badly
effect on the entire ecology. The local residents collect the spilled oil manually. The system is less
efficient, slow and health hazardous. Belt Oil skimmers using Polymer, Teflon, Elastomer,
Corrosion Resistant Steel materials belt are widely used for recovery of this oil. However, they are
costly and unavailable. In this work a low cost simple blanket belt skimmer device by using locally
available equipment that will be capable to absorb the spilled oil rapidly from river water that is
filled with animal and plant waste. After constructing such oil skimmer, the performance is
evaluated that accomplish two types of oil having different physical properties. Experimental
analysis gives around 190 litre/hour of Sample-1 oil whereas absorption rate for the Sample-2 oil
is around 253 litre/hour for the constructed device with minimum cost compare to the other
conventional belt oil skimmer.
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