Ecoceane is a young company that has built on the experience within its shipyard in Paimpol, Brittany, in France to develop a range of oil spill and solid waste clean up vessels which are highly specialised and adapted to keeping the marine environment clean.
They have been called “Vacuum cleaners of the sea” and are aluminium catamarans built under Bureau Veritas supervision, using simple patented techniques to collect oil without using any chemicals.
On engine start-up, a water flow is created between the twin hulls and floating waste is sucked in. This flow is separated into two layers, the lower layer discharging clear water via the propeller in the stern.
The surface layer carrying floating waste and hydrocarbons is first passed through a wire mesh basket to collect floating debris. The basket is emptied into a storage container on deck. The hydrocarbons are captured by an integrated oil interceptor and stored. The cleaned surface water is discharged at the stern.
Hydrocarbons are drawn in by the turbine effect of the propeller, such that the oil layer is sucked in whether the vessel is moving forwards, astern, or is stationary. The vessels can work in confined spaces, between boats in a marina, or moving along a dock wall, due to the rollers in the four corners of its structure.
There is now a family of vessels, from the 6.6 metre long Cataglop L for small ports and marinas, through Cataglop (7.5 metres) and the Cataglop XL (9.2 metres, capable of 6 knots), all road trailer transportable.
The latest addition to the range is the Workglop range (10.6 to 12.8 metres), able to provide wind farm and offshore platform support as well as pollution clean up, with its deck crane.
In addition there is the Spillglop family (18 - 24 metres) for major offshore spills and able to work in conditions up to force 6. These can tow floating flexible oil storage tanks to allow large amounts of oil to be collected. The system is far more efficient than traditional boom/skimmer methods and the vessels can also work in heavier sea states and at higher speeds.
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| Cataglop Light | Cataglop | Workglop | Spillglop |
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