British Petroleum to use Idaho National Laboratory’s technology in gulf oil spill

BP PLC’s effort to cleanup millions of gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico is turning to technology developed two decades ago by a researcher at the Idaho National Laboratory http://www.inl.gov .

The energy company has contracted to buy 32 centrifugal devices that can help separate oil from water at a rate of up to 200 gallons per minute.

The technology was developed by INL scientist David Meikrantz, who initially sought to use the machines to separate the components of nuclear substances.

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