Oil Pollution Stops Here

石油污染就此停止

• 批准号: 83000277
• 金额: $ 231.69万
• 依托单位: ENVOREM LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Innovation Loans
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=83000277
• 关键词: Oil; Pollution; Stops; Here

Approximately 1% of all crude oil extracted from the Earth is discarded by the Oil and Maritime industries as waste sludge; usually dumped in the ocean by ships, in open sludge lagoons by Oil Producers, or simply incinerated, generating colossal quantities of greenhouse gases. Currently, there is no environmental disposal route; some 80% of the pollution from ships is caused by operational oil discharges into the sea. In Canada the sludge lagoons from oil production are so large they are visible from space; the estimated cost of clean-up, is circa $260 Billion. Sullom-Voe, UK-Shetlands has a 300,000-tonne oil sludge lagoon where tankers have been disgorging their waste sludge over many years.Envorem has developed a unique, disruptive, and green technology to clean sludge and recover the oil for recycling using a well understood, but little known, physical property of water. Patent applied for and IP Audit completed: we have freedom to operate.Recycling oil presents no environmental conflict; as opposed to sequestrating, recycling reduces crude oil demand and the environmental impact of extraction. (See Environmental Dichotomy section in Project Delivery Appendix). If the global legacy sludges were incinerated, they would generate more CO2 than 45 million flights from London to New York.Our vision: minimise environmental damage from sludges during the long transition from fossil fuel. Initially targeting oil-industry wastes, just one Envorem machine, compared to incineration, can save every year the same CO2 as absorbed by 6% of all the UK's forests.Incorporated in January 2019, Envorem developed and subsequently demonstrated its technology at lab scale to the State oil companies of Oman (PDO) and Kuwait (KOC). By December 2019, after raising equity against an order for a field trial from PDO, Envorem designed, built, and deployed to Oman, a substantial (TRL6/7) pilot system. By March 2020, Envorem had field-proven, that it could clean sludge for 40% less cost than incineration, at 10 times the speed, without creating emissions whilst recovering 99% of the oil for recycling.This means for the Maritime and Oil Industries, the technology delivers a financial and environmental incentive to stop polluting and clean up legacy deposits.An Innovate-UK-SBRI2 grant completed in April 2021 funded the outline design of a production prototype. Funds are now sought for the next critical development stage, to construct this production prototype, capable of deployment and revenue generation.

从地球上开采的所有原油中，约有1%被石油和海洋工业作为废污泥丢弃;通常由船舶倾倒在海洋中，石油生产商将其倾倒在开放的污泥泻湖中，或者简单地焚烧，产生大量的温室气体。目前，没有环境处置路线;约80%的船舶污染是由于作业中向海洋排放石油造成的。在加拿大，石油生产产生的污泥泻湖如此之大，以至于从太空都能看到;估计清理成本约为2600亿美元。英国设得兰群岛的Sullom-Voe有一个30万吨的油泥泻湖，多年来油轮一直在这里排放废弃污泥。Envorem开发了一种独特的、颠覆性的绿色技术，利用人们熟知但鲜为人知的水的物理性质，清洁污泥并回收石油进行循环利用。专利申请和知识产权审核完成：我们可以自由经营。回收石油不会产生环境冲突;与封存相反，回收减少了原油需求和开采对环境的影响。(See项目交付附录中的环境二分法部分）。如果焚烧全球遗留的污泥，它们产生的二氧化碳将超过从伦敦到纽约的4500万次航班。我们的愿景：在从化石燃料的长期过渡过程中，最大限度地减少污泥对环境的破坏。Envorem最初针对石油工业废物，与焚烧相比，仅一台Envorem机器每年就可以节省相当于英国所有森林吸收6%的二氧化碳。Envorem于2019年1月成立，随后在实验室规模上开发并向阿曼（PDO）和科威特（KOC）的国家石油公司展示了其技术。到2019年12月，在对PDO的现场试验订单筹集资金后，Envorem设计，建造并部署到阿曼，这是一个实质性的（TRL 6/7）试点系统。到2020年3月，Envorem已经现场证明，它可以以比焚烧低40%的成本清洁污泥，速度是焚烧的10倍，而不会产生排放，同时回收99%的石油用于回收。这意味着对于海洋和石油工业，该技术提供了一个财政和环境激励，以停止污染和清理遗留沉积物。一个创新的英国-SBRI 2补助金已于2021年4月完成，为生产原型的概要设计提供资金。目前正在为下一个关键的发展阶段寻求资金，以建造能够部署和创收的生产原型。