Field test of waste oil combustion and empty drum cleaning at alexandra fiord,NWT

摘要

A combined research and remediaiton porject was carreid out in August and September 1995 to test procedures and ortable equipment for disposing of wastepetroleum at remote Arctic sites.The site for the work was Alexandra fiord,a seldom-used RCMP base on Ellesmetre Island,Northwest Territories.there,a crew of ten eople safely and cleanly disposed of approximitely 40,000 L of waste-fuel in five days,suign two flare burners.the burners used were the SAACKE SKV -150 and the SWIRLFIRE Mk.I,both of which are owned by the Canadian Coast Guard.The drums tha thad contianed the fuel were cleaned with a high tejeprature pressure washje and removed from the site.