Project record of TBTCLEAN

Information

Type
Project
Name
TBTCLEAN
Description @en
The TBT CLEAN project aims to provide an integrated solution for the permanent removal of TBT from waterways near ports and inland ship repair yards in order to support the implementation of Directive 1999/51/EC (and COM/2002/0396 final, Proposal for a Regulation of the European parliament and of the council on the Prohibition of Organotin Compounds on Ships). The TBT CLEAN project has four main goals:
  • to briefly assess the environmental impact of already available alternatives for TBT;
  • to determine the release of TBT from sediments into the aquatic environment during dredging operations;
  • to test several treatment technologies for TBT contaminated sediments;
  • to check reuse possibilities for cleaned sediments.
  • Start date
    2002-10
    End date
    2004-10

    Institutes & people involved

    Van Meel Guido
    associated with: Gemeentelijk Havenbedrijf Antwerpen
    Envisan NV
    Thues Gert
    associated with: APEC-Antwerp Port Consultancy NV
    Dredging, Environmental & Marine Engineering N.V.; DEC N.V.
    Environmental Research Center NV

    Expertise

    Sediment pollution
    defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
    term code: 7377
    Tributyltin
    defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
    term code: 9624
    geographic terms
    Belgium, Zeeschelde, Antwerp Harbour

    special collections

    ScheldeMonitor

    record metadata

    date created: 2003-11-26
    date modified: 2007-07-06