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Elimination Units for Marine Oil Pollution

Acronym:  EU-MOP Funding:  European Commission under the sixth Framework Programme The project proposes the design and proof of concept of autonomous Elimination Units for Marine Oil Pollution (EUMOPs), capable of mitigating and eliminating the threat arising from oil spill incidents. The end-result of this project will be the conceptual development and validation of low cost, possibly recyclable, autonomous vessels/drones that will be released in the oil spill area, will automatically (through proper sensors) track the oil concentration specifics of the spill and will apply either mechanical or chemical countermeasures locally. Combining a large number of such units will confront the entire spill. A range of such units will be designed to allow their use in various oil spill scenarios (large, high-seas spills are very different from small, coastal spills; a 'one size fits all' concept is inappropriate).