Abstract
Oil spills occur due to unsafe actions and unsafe conditions as well as asset reliability, which requires comprehensive improvement. Leakage incidents result in losses in the company's operational costs in the form of costs for leak prevention activities, costs for purchasing leakage equipment, and costs for managing hazardous and toxic waste. Implementing clean production processes through reducing, reuse, recycling waste, including implementing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) as well as using and selecting environmentally friendly raw materials, is the basis for carrying out innovations related to oil spill equipment. This research aims to reduce and save costs on using oil spill equipment by replacing it with natural absorbent materials. Natural absorbent materials that are often found in Indonesia include palm fiber, husks, sea mango seeds and hair waste. To test absorbent capacity, ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) is used as another standard procedure for testing absorption capacity. The test method applied for oil absorption by various absorbent media is ASTM D/483-60 "Oil Absorption of Pigment by Gardner-Coleman Method". The results of testing using the ASTM D/483-60 method showed that the absorbency by Volume of palm fiber was 53%, husk 36%, sea mango seed 135%, and hair 149%. Meanwhile, data on the absorbency by Weight of palm fiber is 42%, husk is 43%, sea mango seed is 133%, and hair is 102%. On the other hand, hair also has the highest recovery factor, namely 72%, while the other materials have recovery factor around 30-40%. Comparison of the factory absorbent pad with the hair absorbent pad after 50 uses, the hair absorbent pad remained stable, while the absorbent pad decreased and could not be used again because it had been damaged. After implementing hair absorbent pads, companies can save operational costs due to the decrease in the number of uses of absorbent pads which are replaced with hair absorbent pads, decreased waste of hazardous and toxic materials, and decreased purchases of Oil Spill Equipment.
