RemScanâ„¢ technology has a wide range of applications in the oil and gas industry, including emergency spill response, leak detection and environmental compliance.
“We have had a strong response from the oil and gas and petrochemical industries because they can see the immediate cost benefits of the technology, particularly for remote areas,” said Ziltek Commercial Manager Chris Lawrence.
Emergency spills in a remote location often involve machinery being removed from productive work. Once the contaminated soil has been excavated there is a wait of 5-10 days for laboratory analysis results to validate that the remaining soil is clean. If these results show residual contamination, the equipment has to be remobilised to the site. With RemScanâ„¢, the soil can be delineated and validated on the same day leading to significant cost savings.
The rugged, hand-held instrument shoots an infrared beam at the soil and the reflected beam is captured by a detector. The user simply pulls the trigger and waits 15 seconds for a total petroleum hydrocarbon reading in milligrams or kilograms. The software is operated through a user-friendly personal digital assistant interface that is connected wirelessly to the instrument, with the calibration process taking a few minutes using inert reference materials as there are no consumables.
The home-grown Australian technology has been developed by Ziltek in collaboration with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and was released to market in Australia in December 2012.
In addition, the development team was recently a finalist in the 2013 Australian Shell Innovation Challenge.
Ziltek also sells a range of other products for hazardous waste and contaminated soil management, including RemActivâ„¢, which is a liquid bioremediation enhancer for spill clean-up, and RemBindâ„¢, which is a chemical fixation reagent for binding up organic contaminants in soil to prevent them leaching.
For more information visit www.ziltek.com or call Chris Lawrence on (08) 8152 9390.