South Baltic OIL spill response through clean-up with biogenic oil binders

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Poland - Denmark - Germany - Lithuania - Sweden (South Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2021-12-14

Description

Description (EN):

Different ships carrying people, products and raw materials travel the Baltic Sea in heavy traffic. This leads to a significant risk for maritime accidents resulting in environmental damage, loss and injuries. Besides the immense amount of crude oil transported at sea, almost every vessel carries fuel for its own propulsion. Although being one of the busiest, the Baltic Sea is among the safest seas in the world (regulations and techniques), with national and international contingency plans in place to deal with emergencies. The efficiency of the existing techniques to respond to oil spills strongly depends on (1) how long it takes to reach the accident location and (2) the meteorological and hydrodynamic site conditions. To mitigate these limitations, new techniques are needed to respond fast and sea state independent. These issues were tackled in the project BioBind with a concept based on biodegradable oil binders, deployed by plane and removed by a special netboom (Att.3). SBOIL aims to take up this green technology to strengthen existing cross-border spill response capacities. Sub-national administration levels will be included in the cross-border cooperation. A multilingual handbook will be produced, summarizing basic knowledge about oil spills, response measures and the structural approaches of the individual SB countries to close an information gap and increase the awareness, addressing local and regional authorities and national incident managers. National and international workshops, table top exercises and awareness raising campaigns will be realized. The components of the new green technology will be purchased as a training kit to (1) inform and train people during and after the project and (2) enable the designated station to use it in an emergency. SB staff will be trained in the field and in a nautical simulator in cross-border workshops. The objectives will be met most efficiently by an international project with partners from different SB countries

Achievements (EN):

What changed with SB OIL? Reactions to oil spills on the Baltic Sea can be realized in international cooperation of countries situated around the Baltic Sea. The cooperations have been established, personnel has been trained and awareness for the effective risk management in case of oil spills has been raised. What was the challenge? Different ships carrying people, products and raw materials travel the Baltic Sea in heavy traffic. This leads to a significant risk for maritime accidents resulting in environmental damage, loss and injuries. For the best possible reaction to an oil spill, key actors across borders need to respond fast and jointly across borders. What did SB OIL create? SB OIL trained key personnel on the techniques of the biodegradable oil binder BioBind in nautical simulations. It created as well a multilingual manual summarizing the knowledge.

Website: http://www.sboil.eu

Expected Results (EN):

After the project, the innovative green oil spill response technology with biogenic binders will be available for use. A manual for the correct use of the individual components will be available as well as trained staff to actually operate the new green technology. The components will be stationed at a selected site in the SBR for training, demonstration and actual use. A multilingual handbook will be available, summarizing basic knowledge about oil spills and response measures (incl. the new technology), addressing local and regional authorities and national incident managers to improve their knowledge and awareness. It will contain the administrative approaches of the SB countries and their interaction in a reader-friendly way for non-specialists. Training scenarios to teach incident management procedures relevant for the new technological concept will be available for nautical simulators to guarantee the durability regarding staff training.

Expected Outputs (EN): 1) Road map for improved oil spill preparedness for the uptake of the bio-binder technology. 2) Biogenic spill response training kit available for future use by Contingency Planning Agencies and trainings for practitioners.

Thematic information

Green technologies Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management

Specific Objective: Increased use of green technologies in order to decrease the pollution discharges in the South Baltic area

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06f) promoting innovative technologies to improve environmental protection and resource efficiency in the waste sector, water sector and with regard to soil, or to reduce air pollution

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: University of Rostock

Department: Lehrstuhl für Geotechnik und Küstenwasserbau / Chair of Geotechnics And Coastal Engineering

Address: Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 6, LAG II, 18051 Rostock, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: www.auf.uni-rostock.de

Total budget: EUR 526 250.00

ERDF budget: EUR 447 312.50

World Maritime University

Name: World Maritime University

Address: Fiskehamnsgatan1,, SE-211 18 Malmö, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: www.wmu.se

Total budget: EUR 371 709.60

ERDF budget: EUR 278 782.20

Akademia Morska w Szczecinie

Name: Akademia Morska w Szczecinie

Address: Wały Chrobrego 1-2, 70-500 Szczecin, Poland

Legal status: public

Website: www.am.szczecin.pl

Total budget: EUR 320 250.00

ERDF budget: EUR 272 212.50

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Summary

Project name (EN): South Baltic OIL spill response through clean-up with biogenic oil binders

Project acronym: SB OIL

Project start date: 2016-01-07

Project end date: 2019-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 218 209.60

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 998 307.20

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ERDF: Amount, .

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SBOIL - Zapora do zwalczania rozlewów Olejowych. Akademia Morska w Szczecinie.

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Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://southbaltic.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-28

Document date: 2018-08-08

Languages: pl, en

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Poland - Denmark - Germany - Lithuania - Sweden (South Baltic)

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2024-03-01

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South Baltic OIL spill response through clean-up with biogenic oil binders

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