Our proprietary product, meets International Standards as a super absorbent polymer and is the common tie in all of our environmental cleanup and mitigation products. The polymer particles are solid (about the size of a salt or sugar granule). There are no pores or voids to fill (as in a sponge). Once contact has been made with a compatible liquid, the beads drink the liquid into their solid structure and in so doing, swell. This can be up to 27 volumes per original beads volume with some liquids. The beads will not release liquid, not through compression, gravitational pull, not even when cut in half. The liquid is held in the molecular structure – not in droplets.
Land and water spills can efficiently be contained and absorbed with the range of beads hydrophobic absorbent solutions. Our products absorb (drink in) compatible organic chemical liquids into their solid structure and in so doing, swell. All beads products include our color change technology allowing person deploying to easily see when the product is absorbing organic liquids.
Response System Components:
- BEADS®: the world’s only super absorbent polymer engineered for organic liquids (hydrocarbons).
- HEROSTM Wrap: rapid deployment containment system
- HEROSTM Spray Monitors: water stream delivery of BEADS® from terminals, tanker, recovery vessels, etc.
- HEROSTM SEA MATTM: pre-staged helicopter delivery system.
- HEROSTM Recovery Vessels: all weather, high volume skimmer vessels.
Advantages of Absorbent Beads:
- Significantly reduces vapor concentrations in air (up to 600% less), in many cases to below lower explosive limit (LEL) minimizing risk of fire, explosion or inhalation of toxic fumes
- Captures & contains spilled completely and removes the risk of secondary contamination of personnel & environment; captured liquid cannot be released by any means
- Unaffected by water (hydrophobic)
- Each BEAD® is capable of absorbing up to 27 times it’s own volume making it the industry leader in sorption capacity
- Completely unaffected by water (hydrophobic).
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Representative Absorption Compatibility List
There are over 6 million commercially available organic liquids in the world. Below is a representative list of chemicals BEADS will absorb
