In situ burning (ISB) hasn't been widely used for offshore oil spill response for various reasons. We present a feasibility study for a new ISB method - the Burning Tongue (BT) concept. We conducted scaled experiments in the Ohmsett wave tank to demonstrate its feasibility. We produced a 35-m long "tongue" of burnable oil (average oil thickness 4.2 mm - above the thickness needed for ISB) by towing a conventional boom (with a 12″ (0.3 m) deep skirt) partially filled with crude oil and then released the oil through a 6″ (0.15 m) wide opening at the apex. We found that the boom movement produced a convergence zone just downstream that kept released oil thick and also pulled oil that entrained under the boom skirt into the thick "tongue" of oil. CFD modeling was performed to explain the flow hydrodynamics and the formation of the convergence zone, which indicates the phenomenon is universal. We used small harbor boom only partially filled with oil for this study and believe that a full-scale marine boom filled with oil would achieve an even thicker "burning tongue." The BT concept could make ISB more widely used for oil spill response in offshore areas.
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