AlphaMERS Pvt Ltd (www.alphamers.com) has filed six design patent applications this year. These applications are for devices in the field of marine oil spill containment and recovery, besides other related areas.
The spill response devices cater to special demands of skimming viscous oil spills off the water or dealing with oil spills in strong currents.
The high current skimming devices has a version designed for storm water drains of oil refineries. This device helps prevent an oil spill from within the refinery being carried out to sea through these storm water drains.
