MFNS Goes Global for Cleaning Oil Spills!

MFNS partnered with a marine oil spill response organization (MSRO) in a northern Europe port. Having to handle a variety of types of oil spills on the port, the response team employs a variety of techniques to best clean harbor waters and remove spilled oil. A standard piece of equipment they employ is a single use sorbent boom. Once used, saturated or not, it is disposed of. Any oil recovered in the boom is unavailable for recollection. In this pilot MFNS not only showcased a highly reusable boom that allowed for oil recovery, but also looked to demonstrate that filtration of remnant hard to clean oils from surface waters would also be a viable solution to inefficiencies of their current collection and storage systems.  

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