page_title: Research and Development Institute of Ecology and the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
section_title: The fiber oil sorbent boom
hierarchical_section_title: Research and Development Institute of Ecology and the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources / Activity / Technology / The fiber oil sorbent boom
caption_attribution_description: VENICE, La. - Contracted workers from U.S. Environmental Services organize boom for deployment at the Venice, La., staging area Thursday, April 29, 2010. Staging areas have been placed in areas so quick deployment of assets and personnel could be utilized to protect environmentally sensitive areas. Photo by Marc Morrison
context_page_description: The Research and Development Institute of Ecology and the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources, LLC, or Research institute of Ecology, the abbreviation is the RSI — a company from Tyumen specializes in development of innovation technologies in the field of environmental protection and nature conservation.
  One of the first residents of the business incubator within the West Siberian innovation center. It made itself a name due to the participation in the aftereffects destruction of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico.
context_section_description: The most known technology of the company is the fiber oil sorbent boom. The ideologist of the invention is Petr Gvozdyak – the doctor of Biological Sciences, the professor of the Colloid chemistry and the Water chemistry Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kiev), who invented the method of sewage treatment by bioremediation (SU 1428713 A1 patent). The staff of the laboratory of the Research Institute of Ecology and Natural Resources Management of the TSU patented the consortium of oil eating microbes Arthrobacter Oxydans-091 and Pseudomonas putida, but the RU 2275466 C1 patent put out of action in 2007. Therefore, the authors Victor Ryadinskiy and Julia Deneko applied for the new patent (RU 2431017 C1 patent) in 2010.
  The essence of the technology is that the special fibers saturated with oil eating microbes are fastened on the floating booms. The fibers hook up the oil patches on themselves and microbes biodegrade it during several days, oil is decomposed into carbonic acid and water. The fiber attachments do not hinder the water flow. Also it has the largest absorbing surface area: 5-10 thous. m² per 1 cubic metre of the construction. The tests on the river Var-Egan show the reduction of the petroleum product concentration of water column in 4 times, the surface pellicular oil reduced in 43 times.
  The project became the finalist of the «Russian innovations competition–2009» and the «Zworykin Award-2011». The technology was applied in the time of the aftereffects Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico, 2010. RSI worked under the contract with the American company TransGlobal Remediation Group. The American bacteria raised by the researchers from Texas (Texas A&M University System, United States) were used because of the long awaiting of the microbes import permission from the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
caption: The workers are preparing the boom defence. Gulf of Mexico. April 30, 2010
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