Okay so there was a oil spill here in the Philippines and I am wondering how they remove the oil from the sea and make it clean again..
2006-09-06 00:14:10 · 7 answers · asked by winkerperson 1 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
Actually, they have chemicals that can make the oil "fall" to the bottom, or, they can booms, (flotation devices), that will trap the oil, for removal, by sucking it up in huge vacumn containers, (plus water, but, by draining the bottom, you will have the water out, because oil will float above the water).
If its on the beach, they use rags to soak it up, and dispose of them properly in an approved landfill.
Sucking the oil up with a large hose is the best way, or even burning it, (if it can be done, with out endangering the coast line or ships in the area, and has to be a last resort).
Or, given enough time, the oil "will" disperse into the sea water, and either fall in clumps, (crude is like tar after awhile, left in the sun and clumps with the heat), to the sea bottom, or disperse in the water so that it will become untraceable. (The ocean is a LARGE area, and can absorb the oil over a large are, so that it wont register in parts per billion after enough time)...
Left on its own, it will hit land if close enough.
I wish you well..
Jesse
2006-09-06 00:23:56 · answer #1 · answered by x 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't. The oil or petroleum spills remain in the sea until the sea itself cleanses it. Human are incapable of cleaning the sea.
Anyway if there was a problem for swimmers there'd be a red flag on the beach...
2006-09-06 07:18:19 · answer #2 · answered by Vette 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They take large floating booms and encircle the spill and slowly draw the booms closed around it to form a small circled off oil spill area, they can then begin sucking it up or draw it up onto the shore and spread microorganisms(hydrocarbon loving ones) that will eat the oil.
2006-09-06 07:21:06 · answer #3 · answered by Meggz21 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i read somewhere that a whole city donated its hair to a company who spread them over the sea the hair absorb all the oil
2006-09-06 07:38:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oil naturally separates from water. All you gotta do is suck it up from the top or burn it.
2006-09-06 07:17:40 · answer #5 · answered by Joe K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need an oil-eating algae. im not sure if it is an algae but its a living organism that eats oil. kumusta?
2006-09-06 07:21:05 · answer #6 · answered by Kerk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by certain ways
2006-09-06 07:17:38 · answer #7 · answered by handballer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋