Oil Pollution Stops Here

从地球上开采的所有原油中，大约有1%被石油和海洋工业作为废污泥丢弃；通常由船只倾倒在海洋中，由石油生产商倾倒在露天的污泥泻湖中，或者直接焚烧，产生大量的温室气体。目前没有环境处理路线；约80%的船舶污染是由作业中向海洋排放的石油造成的。在加拿大，石油生产产生的污泥湖非常大，从太空都能看到；估计清理费用约为2600亿美元。英国设得兰群岛的sullomvoe有一个30万吨的油泥泻湖，多年来油轮一直在那里排放废污泥。Envorem开发了一种独特的、颠覆性的、绿色的技术，利用人们对水的物理特性的充分了解，回收油类进行循环利用。专利申请及IP审核完成：我们拥有经营的自由。回收油品无环境冲突；与封存相比，回收利用减少了原油需求和开采对环境的影响。（参见项目交付附录中的环境二分法部分）。如果全球遗留的污泥被焚烧，它们产生的二氧化碳比从伦敦到纽约的4500万次航班还多。我们的愿景是：在从化石燃料过渡的漫长过程中，尽量减少污泥对环境的破坏。最初的目标是石油工业废物，与焚烧相比，一台enviorem机器每年可以节省相当于英国6%森林吸收的二氧化碳。Envorem成立于2019年1月，开发并随后在实验室规模上向阿曼（PDO）和科威特（KOC）国家石油公司展示了其技术。到2019年12月，在获得PDO的现场试验订单后，Envorem设计、建造并部署到阿曼，这是一个实质性的（TRL6/7）试点系统。到2020年3月，Envorem已经在现场证明，它可以以比焚烧低40%的成本清洁污泥，速度是焚烧的10倍，不会产生排放，同时回收99%的石油用于循环利用。这意味着，对于海事和石油行业来说，该技术为停止污染和清理遗留沉积物提供了经济和环境激励。2021年4月完成的Innovate-UK-SBRI2拨款资助了生产原型的轮廓设计。目前正在为下一个关键发展阶段寻求资金，以建造这种能够部署和产生收入的生产原型。

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.