DSS Marine News & Events

June 2004 - First Current Buster Trialed in Canada

DSS marine Inc. was please to make delivery of the first NOFI Current Buster™ in the Canadian Marketplace. ECRC in Quebec, Canada, performed sea trials and training for system operation in May of this year.

The NOFI Current Buster™ (patent pending) is a unique product for containing and recovering oil, with dramatically increased skimming efficiency due to low oil-layer turbulence in the separator at the end of the system.

The NOFI Current Buster™ is capable of containing and collecting oil in towing speeds (or currents) up to 3,5 – 4 knots. This according to tests undertaken by the USCG R&D centre in the OHMSETT test tank in July 1999. Therefore the NOFI Current Buster‘ represents a completely new technology compared with conventional oil booms. We should like to emphasize the following comment given in the official US Coast Guard report, which says it all about the NOFI Current Buster:

The NOFI Current Buster™ collects oil at the highest TE than any other system ever evaluated at speeds over 3 knots. The values for TE were 65 percent for harbor chop and 91 percent in calm water at 3.5 knots.
The NOFI Current Buster™ consists of a Front Sweep (std opening 20m) guiding or herding oil into the combined Collector/Skimming device and then into the Separator Tank (holding capacity approx. 30m3) from where the oil is recovered by a simple pump or a conventional skimmer.
The NOFI Current Buster™ in addition to containing oil in high towing speeds (and/or currents) also separates the oil from the water and positively “controls” the oil for uncomplicated and highly efficient oil recovery – replacing the need for conventional skimmers (by applying pumps instead).
The NOFI Current Buster™ is also expected to be well suited for fast running rivers and in narrow, high current straits.

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