ASTM Manual 34 provides you with all the information necessaryfor selecting skimmers for various applications.

In assembling reports to develop this publication, governmentagencies were able to find and provide single copies of many testreports-copies that were available no where else but in governmentarchives-to use for analysis. This never-before publishedinformation is now available in condensed form to the user. Thedata is easily accessible, meaningful, and quickly understood.

Fifteen chapters cover the following skimmer types:• broom; •brush (chain and drum brush); • disc; • drum; • paddle belt; •stationary rope mop; • suspended rope mop; • ZRV rope mop; •sorbent belt; • fixed submersion plane; • submersion moving plane;• suction; • air conveyors; • weir and induced flow weir; • andadvancing weir.

A valuable reference for spill response professionals working inoil companies, government agencies, consulting firms, oil spillco-ops, and spill recovery contracting firms.