Qualification of oil-spill treatment products – Adopting the Baffled Flask Test for testing of dispersant efficacy in the UK

The UK Marine Management Organisation (MMO) tasked the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas) with reviewing the current UK dispersant efficacy testing procedures. The aim was to identify possibilities to increase standardisation, improve health and safety performance an...

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Published in:Marine pollution bulletin Vol. 129; no. 2; pp. 609 - 614
Main Authors: Sühring, Roxana, Smith, Andy, Emerson, Heather, Doran, Denise, Mellor, Phil, Kirby, Mark F., Christie, Bernard
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2018
Elsevier BV
Subjects:
Aquaculture
Baffled Flask Test
Chemical spills
Dispersant efficacy testing
Dispersants
Dispersion
Effectiveness
Environmental Restoration and Remediation - methods
Environmental Restoration and Remediation - standards
Fisheries
Fishery sciences
Harmonisation
Marine conservation
Marine pollution
Models, Theoretical
Oil spills
Oil-spill treatment
Petroleum - analysis
Petroleum Pollution - analysis
Procedures
Safety
Standardised method
Surface-Active Agents - chemistry
Surface-Active Agents - standards
Test procedures
Testing
Testing procedures
United Kingdom
United States
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis
Water pollution
United Kingdom > UK
United States > US
United States
United Kingdom
Oil-spill treatment
Harmonisation
Baffled Flask Test
Dispersant efficacy testing
Standardised method
ISSN:0025-326X, 1879-3363, 1879-3363
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Summary:The UK Marine Management Organisation (MMO) tasked the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas) with reviewing the current UK dispersant efficacy testing procedures. The aim was to identify possibilities to increase standardisation, improve health and safety performance and explore harmonisation possibilities with international dispersant efficacy testing procedures. The US EPA ‘Baffled Flask Test’ (BFT) was adopted, implemented and validated as a new standard method in the UK. The outputs from this study suggest that dispersant efficacy results from the adopted BFT test and the currently used protocol are in a similar range and results presented by the US EPA. As a result, the transition to the adopted BFT test will require minimal changes in the assessment of the results or reporting and increase harmonisation between tests used in the UK and North America. •The US EPA BFT method was adopted as new standard for dispersant testing in the UK.•The new method provides comparable results to the LR448 protocol.•The new BFT method facilitates global harmonisation for dispersant efficacy testing.•The new robust and sensitive method reduces the use of hazardous solvents.
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ISSN:0025-326X
1879-3363
1879-3363
DOI:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.10.038