Ready For Hurricane Season? Call Dan Keys

Ready for hurricane season? Of course, we’re not but it’s coming with its wind and waves. What will this do to the oil floating on top of the gulf? It will emulsify much of it, mixing it and dispersing it into such small particles that its electrochemical forces of like charges will suspend each particle in a force field of its own charge, repelling nearby particles with like charges away. The oil, though not chemically bonded to the water stays mixed, creating a sludge of tiny particles that can only be dealt with on a microscopic level. Some of this microscopic environment includes microbes that will readily eat the oil but then there are the little problems of waste and depleted oxygen. Now you have suspended oils, suspended proteins and depleted oxygen. A perfect environment for… nothing. No fish, no wildlife, just a growing dead zone in the gulf. If the problem spreads to wetlands, then you’ll have dead zones forming there as well.

Dissolved air flotation can be applied to these areas and the oil and microbe waste can be collected around the air bubbles and skimmed off. Now what’s needed are long lasting, high rate, high volume capable pumps that can handle the millions of gallons long term.

Enter the Air whip pump by Keystec.DAF pumps that defy common design and outlast most DAF pumps on an exponential scale.

More information at the Keystec website for: DAF pumps.

Dissolved Air Flotation Strategy for Oil Spill – Water Oxygen Replenishment Cleanup

Dissolved Air Flotation offers a double problem solving strategy in cleanup and removal of oil from the BP gulf oil spill. While centrifuges such as those designed by Kevin Costner, separate suspended oil, a more difficult “byproduct” emerges in the process. “Stick” water, the kind usually derived from fish processing. The resulting emulsified oil/water solution is typically separated using DAF – Dissolved Air Flotation equipment onsite at food processing plants.

Complicating the cleanup of oil contaminated water in the gulf the process that nature itself has already begun. Microbes are consuming the oil in a feeding frenzy and multiplying to match the supply. This new population, in turn, creates proteins in their waste and simultaneously depletes available oxygen in the water. Fish are reportedly leaving en-masse for water with enough oxygen to sustain life. Fish which normally avoid each other or hunt each other from sharks to marlin are swimming in virtual refugee convoys.

Dissolved Air Flotation can deal with the emulsified oil in the new dead zones, the proteins and replenish oxygen all at once. The Keystec Air Whip pump, installed in custom Dissolved Air Flotation equipment is the core of a long lasting super air-injecting and waste collecting system that is equipped to speed shallow water marsh recovery.