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UNDER CONSTRUCTION

 EXPERIMENTS AT THE OHMSETT FACILITY INSIDE
NAVAL WEAPONS STATION EARLE TO SIMULATE A DEEP SEA OIL LEAK
 

After serving on the lead team responding to the Deepwater Horizon deep sea oil leak in 2010, and writing one of the most cited journal papers in US history with the Director of the US Geological Survey in 2011;  in 2012 I submitted a proposal to an open, public, competitive Call for Proposal by the DOI Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).

The main reason that the Deepwater Horizon oil leak continued for 87 days was the absence of a proven tool to measure the leak rate.  My proposal “Development of a ROV Deployed Video Analysis Tool for Rapid Measurement of Submerged Oil/Gas Leaks”  would create that tool.  I would work with Professor Ömer Savaş of UC Berkeley in his Fluid Dynamics lab for small-scale testing; then at the US Navy Tow Tank near Berkeley for medium-scale testing, and finally at the OHMSETT Wave Tank Facility inside Naval Weapons Station Earle  for full-scale testing. The highest flow rate of jet fuel at NWS Earle was 28,000 barrels per day.  That flow rate of jet fuel would keep fifteen fully loaded 747 jets flying 30,000 feet above the ground.

Click the image below to watch video of JP5 jet fuel being injected into sea water at OHMSETT
The flow rate of jet fuel is about half that of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak.
OHMSETT Facility 

FIRST TIME AT THE SECURITY ENTRANCE TO NAVAL WEAPONS STATION EARLE

The first time I arrived at NWS Earle, Dr. Igor Haljassma was with me.  He was born, raised and earned his first engineering degrees in Russian controlled Estonia. (His PhD is from the University of Pittsburgh).  Igor speaks fluent Russian.  We’d submitted our paperwork for background checks a few weeks prior.  No problems.

When we arrived at the entrance to NWS Earle, Igor was on the phone with his wife rambling on in Russian.  The entrance to NWS Earle is a large building you drive into where you are stopped by Naval Guards in body armor with sidearms and short automatic rifles across their chests.  They check your ID and paperwork, then send you to a room with no windows while they search your car.

I’d forgotten to inform them that I would arrive with an engineer from a Russian controlled country, and we’d be in a van packed full of scientific camera equipment, and I’d forgotten to list the scientific camera equipment on the ACCESS REQUEST FORM

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The Navy Guards took me into a room with polygraph equipment on the table…more on this later…

 

ABOUT MY WORK

New: Independent Reviews of the Value of Patent 8,391,522

 *  Showing Secretary of Energy Four Star Admiral James D. Watkins my bioengineering work
with Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering Dr. Harvey Borovetz  *

*  Showing the Secretary of Energy Nobel Laureate Dr. Steven Chu,
former Director of a DOE Nuclear Weapons R&D Lab,
our research work to prevent another prolonged deep sea oil leak  *

*  My Particle Flow Research Lab with an Atomic Vapor Laser  *

*  My First Accurate Measure of Deepwater Horizon Oil Leak  *

*  Bringing a PhD engineer born and raised in Russia into Naval Weapons Station Earle
to conduct large-scale experiments with JP5 jet fuel *

*  Applying my patented imaging technology to Energy and Petrochemical Processes  *

*  The Science & Beauty of Fluidization  *

*  My Publications  *

*  About My Work for Social Justice and Civil Rights (pdf)  *

Gratefulness for those who created and supported me