SCAA was invited to observe the air emission testing of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Oil Burner conducted on 12 December at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Chesapeake Beach Division. The BSEE Burner is a Low-Emission Spray Combustor that represents an advancement of combustion technology developed by BSEE’s federal partners at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The combustion unit uses air to atomize and cleanly burns emulsified crude oils at a rate equal to that of a typical skimming unit, eliminating the need for storage and transport. The vision is having this breakthrough technology integrated into existing oil spill response support systems.
Three burn tests were conducted using two types of crude oil and one of which was a 60% oil/40% water mixture. The burn tests were conducted by a team of representatives from BSEE, NRL and EPA’s Office of Research and Development, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. The EPA team were from EPA's major center for air pollution research and regulation, based at Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina. Sensors were positioned above the Burner to monitor and collect emission measurements. The oil/water mixture burn produced a whitish plume, most likely steam while to 100 percent crude produced no visible plume.
The BSEE Burner may prove to be a unique and important response tool for responding to oil spills in remote, restricted access and distant locations worldwide. Case in point is the U.S. Navy Supervisor of Salvage & Diving (SUPSALV) oil removal project for EX-USS CHEHALIS fuel removal operations in American Samoa in 2010-11 during which nearly 60,000 gallons of diesel, fuel and oil slops were removed from this submerged World War II – era Navy tanker. On 7 October 1949, as Chehalis lay alongside the navy dock at Tutuila, American Samoa, when one of her gasoline tanks exploded, killing six of her 75-man crew. The ship burst into flames, capsized, and sank in 45 feet of water. She later slid off the ledge, atop of which she had originally sunk, into 150 feet of water. Has the BSEE Burner existed in 2010/2011, it would have provided an option to burn the recovered fuel at the Pago Pago Harbor site. This would have avoided the hire of a U.S. tug and oil barge that deployed from San Jose, CA for the long voyage across the Pacific Ocean to receive the fuel and make the return trip to CA where the oil was transferred to oil train cars and taken to Kansas to be burned as energy recovery at a cement kiln. and shipped to OK for final disposal. The BSEE Burner would have saved the U.S. Navy much time and cost of transportation and disposal.
The BSEE Burner will be featured at the 2020 International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) Technology Demonstration in New Orleans, 11-14 May with plans for conducting an actual burn on a portable barge on the Harvey, LA canal on the afternoon of 11 May and to be displayed at the Tech Demo in the Convention Center on 13 May.
Three burn tests were conducted using two types of crude oil and one of which was a 60% oil/40% water mixture. The burn tests were conducted by a team of representatives from BSEE, NRL and EPA’s Office of Research and Development, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. The EPA team were from EPA's major center for air pollution research and regulation, based at Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina. Sensors were positioned above the Burner to monitor and collect emission measurements. The oil/water mixture burn produced a whitish plume, most likely steam while to 100 percent crude produced no visible plume.
The BSEE Burner may prove to be a unique and important response tool for responding to oil spills in remote, restricted access and distant locations worldwide. Case in point is the U.S. Navy Supervisor of Salvage & Diving (SUPSALV) oil removal project for EX-USS CHEHALIS fuel removal operations in American Samoa in 2010-11 during which nearly 60,000 gallons of diesel, fuel and oil slops were removed from this submerged World War II – era Navy tanker. On 7 October 1949, as Chehalis lay alongside the navy dock at Tutuila, American Samoa, when one of her gasoline tanks exploded, killing six of her 75-man crew. The ship burst into flames, capsized, and sank in 45 feet of water. She later slid off the ledge, atop of which she had originally sunk, into 150 feet of water. Has the BSEE Burner existed in 2010/2011, it would have provided an option to burn the recovered fuel at the Pago Pago Harbor site. This would have avoided the hire of a U.S. tug and oil barge that deployed from San Jose, CA for the long voyage across the Pacific Ocean to receive the fuel and make the return trip to CA where the oil was transferred to oil train cars and taken to Kansas to be burned as energy recovery at a cement kiln. and shipped to OK for final disposal. The BSEE Burner would have saved the U.S. Navy much time and cost of transportation and disposal.
The BSEE Burner will be featured at the 2020 International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) Technology Demonstration in New Orleans, 11-14 May with plans for conducting an actual burn on a portable barge on the Harvey, LA canal on the afternoon of 11 May and to be displayed at the Tech Demo in the Convention Center on 13 May.
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