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TOMSK,
Mar 12 – RIA Tomsk.Tomsk State University (TSU) was
included into consortium of the leading universities of Russia and Scotland
which will be engaged in projects on restoration of the Arctic systems; experts
consider that two Tomsk developments can be used for elimination of oil spills
in the Arctic, it is reported on Monday on the TSU website.
It is specified that TSU scientists participated in the international
conference which took place in Arkhangelsk and was devoted to development of
network of the British-Russian cooperation in the Arctic researches. Experts
from several dozens of scientific centers of Russia, Great Britain, Finland,
Norway and the USA became conferees.
"The consortium was formed. <…> The frame of the association
was made by scientists of the Biological Institute (BI) of TSU, Northern
(Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Murmansk Marine
Biological Institute and University of Aberdeen (Scotland). Tasks in which
solution scientists will be engaged, are ensuring ecological safety in places
of expansion of extraction of hydrocarbons", – it is said in the statement.
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It is added that for the solution of environmental problems of the most
northern region of the Russian Federation experts suggested to use two
inventions of biologists of TSU – technology for cleaning of ground deposits of
rivers and lakes from oil and oil products and the aeroprobe – the device for
express assessment of a condition of reservoirs regarding pollution by
hydrocarbons. Both inventions were presented at the conference.
According to the press service, the technology of cleaning of ground
deposits developed in TSU was checked in the Polar region. More than 20 years
ago there was the largest accident entered in the Guinness Book of Records.
Scientists were engaged in cleaning of one of the most polluted objects – lake
Shchuchye from which bottom they managed to lift more than 150 tons of oil.
According to biologists, this technology can work also in a shelf zone.
Earlier it was reported that the aeroprobe was patented in 2016. BI TSU
together with the Lukoil company realized the project on ensuring of ecological
safety of water objects of the oil-and-gas regions of the Arctic and the
territories adjoining to it by means of the aeroprobe. Also the technology and
the device were brought in the road map on interaction of PJSC Gazprom with an
industrial complex of the Tomsk region in 2017.