AN ACTUAL NEW NEWS REPORT....MOP means Maximum Oil Pickup
'The product is green and effective.' .
One of the biggest challenges faced by green products is the common misperception that by creating a sustainable product you must sacrifice quality and effectiveness in the process. Not so with MOP Maximum Oil Pickup. It’s green and it is aggressively effective.
Created by recycling an otherwise-unrecycled* fiber product in a plant powered by hydro electric energy, the production of the MOP sorbent (the name for the oil spill cleanup product) is all created, from beginning to end with green technology and green energy, making it cradle-to-cradle green technology.
The MOP sorbent comes in two forms one optimized for land cleanup and one optimized for water cleanup. Using a patented process involving biodegradable materials the final product makes the sorbent Oleophyllic (oil loving/absorbant) and hydrophobic (water hating/repelling). The moment that the sorbent is spread on the oil spill on land or water, it sucks up the oil and repels the water. This means that as the sorbent is cleaned up only oil is captured with it. One 20lb bag of MOP will capture as much as 600 lbs of oil.
Once used the oil can then be extracted for reuse from the MOP sorbent and the sorbent can be burned as fuel. Extraction yields 95% of the usable oil.
Since development of the sorbent is only part of the solution, the folks at MOP Environmental Solutions have been working on a whole host of delivery systems for the sorbent, including: booms, pillows, loose material and the MOP Canon. The MOP Canon looks a little like the offspring of a vacuum cleaner and an artillery gun, but operates like an air canon, shooting the loose dry sorbent out as a speed of 150 MPH and spreading it evenly over a distance of 50 feet.
Economically competitive with even the most inexpensive products currently on the market, the ability to reuse the spent sorbent for fuel, results in an even more significant reduction in remediation costs, according to Diamond. MOP uses one-tenth as much space for storage and is much easier to handle. Imagine one worker carrying two 20-lb bags of MOP versus two workers unloading a ½-ton pickup truck loaded with 25 to 40 bags of clay for the same oil spill.”
Diamond is optimistic that the MOP Environmental Solution’s holistic approach to oil remediation will be a positive draw for any operator facing the potential for oil spills in any process. He also hopes the public will demand its use instead of the other unsustainable products currently on the market.
We intercept a material that has no recycling path, give it a recycling path by converting it to MOP, and then apply it in the field to solve an environmental problem without creating any additional waste streams. We take one problem material and using it to solve a much bigger problem.”
For more information about MOP and other remediation technologies, visit www.mopenvironmental.com
by Wayne D.King 6:30 AM Tue 22 Sep 2009
