Oil containment booms are slowly becoming popular because of their good impact resistance, performance, and reasonable price, and importantly. They are environmentally friendly and maintenance-free. Whether it is deep water, shallow water, moving water, salt water, fresh water, frozen water, hot water, clean water, sewage, almost wherever there is water, floats can be put to good use. Let's go together to understand what is the oil containment boom.

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• What are the characteristics of the oil containment boom

• What are the functions of oil containment booms

What Are the Characteristics of the Oil Containment Boom

1. Bright color, beautiful, oil-resistant, sun-resistant, large buoyancy reserve, strong oil retention performance.

2. The main use of PVC double-sided way layer of high-strength waterproof cloth. The upper and lower part of the bar body has pulling a rope, strengthening belt, and tension counterweight chain as longitudinal force members, the oil containment boom has high tensile performance. The outer surface is clean, easy to conduct oil, and easy to clean.

3. There are different shapes of floating bodies to choose from teardrop-shaped (not inverted) in the rapid flow of stability; cylindrical shape has a large buoyancy reserve, wave multiplication; block-shaped boom storage volume is small, and winding machine with the deployment of rapid and labor-saving.

4. One section every 20 meters, easy and fast connection between sections.

What Are the Functions of Oil Containment Booms

The role of oil containment booms is summarized as three main roles: boom control and concentration, oil spill diversion, and prevention of potential oil spills.

1. Oil spill containment and concentration

After an oil spill accident occurs, the oil spill will spread and drift rapidly under the influence of the tide, wind, and other external factors, forming a large pollution area. When an oil spill occurs in open water, near-shore water, or port, timely deployment of oil containment boom can boom and control the oil spill in diffusion in time, and through boom towing or reducing the scope of booming, the oil film can be concentrated to a smaller area for recovery, which can prevent oil spill diffusion and also increase the thickness of oil film for recovery or other treatment.

2. Oil spill diversion

After an oil spill accident, under the action of external factors, the oil spill will drift and spread arbitrarily. To facilitate the recovery operation or to divert the oil spill flow to the designated place, especially in the river or near-shore area with rapid water flow, to effectively control the flow of the oil spill for recovery or to prevent the oil spill from entering the sensitive area, the oil containment boom is usually used to set up external defense according to the set angle. There are two general cases of oil spill diversion. One is to use the boom for long-term deployment, generally placed at the water intake and power plant, etc.; the other case is to place the boom at the time of reefing, mainly when the oil spill occurs, according to the specific circumstances of the temporary deployment of which put the boom, to achieve oil spill diversion, the oil spill will be directed to the area of easy recovery or other non-sensitive resources area.

3. Preventing potential oil spills

Preventing potential oil spills usually refers to placing booms in advance for oil spill prevention and control in places where oil spills are likely to occur or where there is a risk of oil spills, depending on the local water conditions. This can prevent the oil spill from spreading and take recovery measures to recover the oil spill in the boom control in a time when an oil spill occurs. When ships carry out oil loading and unloading operations at terminals or oil barging at anchorages, they are usually required to lay booms in advance to set up control according to regulations; sometimes, appropriate boom control should be carried out according to the actual situation for ships that run aground or sink before they are salvaged.

Because of so many advantages and functions of the oil containment boom, more and more people began to apply the oil containment boom to the actual production life. Suzhou Health Run new materials Technology Co., Ltd. conducts many tests on the oil containment boom before they leave the factory, and the quality qualification rate is guaranteed. If you are in the oil containment boom business, you can consider our cost-effective product.