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OIL SPILL TECHNOLOGY

OilGuard 2000 Designed To Help Crews Minimize Oil Damage

The trial version of a new Transas product,

OilGuard 2000, was officially released by the company last fall. OilGuard 2000 is designed as the information system that may be bene- ficially used in any Oil Spill Response Center.

The system provides facilities for command center exercise planning, conduct and analy- sis, pursuant to the requirements of OPA90,

MARPOL 73/78, OPRC90.

Development of the OilGuard 2000 has been inspired by the contract with the U.S.

Coast Guard (USCG) for a "Pollution

Incident Simulation Control and Evaluation

System" (PISCES). This contract was won by

Transas in September 1996.

After the successful FAT and SAT passed in the first half of 1998, the Transas'

OilGuard 2000 appeared in the company's product line as a commercial product based on the PISCES software. OilGuard 2000 uses a pre- cise hydrodynamic model of the oil-spill which is integrated in a cartographic shell based on vector- ized nautical charts. The model is capable of most realistic representation of all significant processes that take place in an oil-spill including oil spread characteristics, evaporation, sinkage into the water column, burning; and interaction with coastline, booms, skimmers and chemical dispersants. The model takes into account the continuously changing field of currents and other hydro-meteorological information. The OilGuard 2000 provides the user with a unique analyzing tool. Apart from the contin- £yttem Efc Cfcst OiSfil Egviorment £or*ob T«A Qptkre tfrxkj*. Hefc -H-Hakk-Nfrl.il H *l I [FEK J fisssri SF^s 3 n^) j • -I Ixl

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Phone: 604-921-1920 Fax: 604-921-1925 e-mail: [email protected] web: wwwnautican.com

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OilGuard 2000, which makes the system easily adaptable to the particular requirements of any user. The OilGuard 2000 operator does not have to possess special computer skills other than the basic

MS Windows user skills. The system can therefore be used immediately by subject area specialists.

The minimum hardware required for the OilGuard 2000 is a Pentium 2000 with 64 MB RAM.

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POLLUTION IS PERSONAL

Hermont Marine, Inc. services the North American marine industry with quality oily water separating equipment and quality service since 1984.

With 15 years of hands on experience, we understand bilge water and have found simple solutions to get clean bilge water overboard reliably.

Hermont offers the Focas 1500 oil content meter, one of the most dependable bilge alarms. To keep the instrument accurate, Hermont does annual calibration on the oil content meters. To eliminate residual oil from the effluent stream, Hermont supplies post filtration modules as a simple, reliable and user friendly means to keep the environment clean. Applying the above shows diligence by managers and directors in matters of pollution.

ISO-9002 certified

Hermont Marine, Inc. 3528 Griffith St., Laurent, Quebec H4T 1A7 Canada

Tel: (514) 735-6185 Fax: (514) 735-0035

E-mail: [email protected]

Internet: http://www.hermont.com

Companies Team To Offer

Oil Clean-up Solution

Kvichak Marine, Marco

Pollution and Hyde Products have teamed together to introduce the

Convertible 38-ft. OSRV, a fast response boom boat, stationary skimmer and advancing skimmer all in one package.

Built by Kvichak for Clean

Sound Cooperative in Edmonds,

Wash., Widgeon is the fifth pollu- tion control vessel built by

Kvichak for Clean Sound. It is, however, the first vessel of its kind, in that it incorporates two different oil skimming systems into one skimming platform. The new vessel type was designed to set new standards in performance and flexibility, designed for fast response, and safe, effective oper- ation in harbor, near shore and offshore environments.

Oil recovery equipment is fully integrated into the hull of the ves- sel and features a patented LORI

Recovery Channel design. With the side doors and sweeping boom deployed, the 38 x 12-ft. (11.5 x 3.6 m) all-aluminum OSRV becomes a 19-ft. (5.8-m) wide oil slick processing system. The ves- sel can advance at speeds up to three knots for maximum open- water oil encounter rates. When stationary, the Marco Flow

Induction system creates a power- ful inflow of surface water to draw oily water through the recovery channel.

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Liquid Waste Technology

Acquired

Liquid Waste Technology has been acquired by an affiliate of

Ellicott International, the world's largest producer of cutter suction dredges. LWT is a leading design- er and maker of portable small dredges, especially those equipped with remote controlled operation and automation capa- bilities. LWT is known for its automated and radio remote con- trolled dredges, using Bottom

Sense to protect pond bottoms and liners; Solids Sense to maintain delivery of constant solids densi- ty; and other options such as

Radio Remote Sense, Auto Sense

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