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Information From Internet Sources Relating to Centrifuge Technology and the BP Oil Spill

A number of companies have produced information indicating that their products have applicability to the current environmental crisis. The information provided below may be of interest to users of this report.

CINC was founded by Kevin Costner (Costner Industries.) In 1993 they purchased the rights to a liquid/liquid centrifuge which had been patented by Dave Meikrantz and Idaho National Laboratory.

Although centrifuge technology has been used for liquid/liquid separation in oil spill applicatons for many years, the patent was based on a technology developed by DOE (Department of Energy) to extract materials from nuclear waste for the nuclear industry and nuclear remediation.

The patent was essentially described as being an improvement of the DOE design which was intended for 2 (or more) input streams. In the previous patent the centrifuge was used as a centrifugal "contactor" ie a manner to mix the liquid stream and an input that included a solvent and then separate the component parts. The patent was stated to be specifically for use with petroleum products.

The centrifuge discharges the heavier component radially outward at the top and the lighter component radially inward at the bottom.

CINC Industries liquid-liquid centrifuges have been installed worldwide for applications in the petroleum, chemical, mining, pharmaceutical, food, fragrances, printing, and environmental industries. An adjustable heavy phase weir and variable speed motor provide the flexibility required to deal with specific gravity differences. The self-priming design of the centrifuge will accept a wide variation in flow and can be pumped or gravity fed. The centrifuge performs a wide range of separation, extraction, washing and reaction operations.
With our two inlet design, the CINC centrifuge is a contactor that facilitates the introduction of extractants, solvents or washing agents. The annular mixing zone provides efficient mixing of feed streams, while low mixing options are available to reduce liquid shear.

CINC centrifuges are available in a variety of sizes ranging from R&D scale to full production scale units with flow rates ranging from 0.5 to 200 gallons per minute (1.9 to 757 liters/minute). Two or more units employed in a counter current extraction process result in maximized performance for solvents and wash solutions.

An animation displaying how the process works from the company's website.

The centrifuge used by Ocean Therapy Solutions would be CINC's V20. The V20 (20" rotor) is rated for 200 gallons/ minute (200,000 gallons per day.) It weighs approximately 4,500 pounds and costs $200,000.

Ocean Therapy Solutions uses CINC centrifuges to produce a complete package. The centrifuges are integrated with pumps, filters, piping and other components and controls They are mounting the equipment on barges with crew quarters and power supplies for the BP spill.

Kevin Costner testifiedon behalf of Ocean Therapy Solutions before the House Committee on Science and Technology. The hearing was titled, Deluge of Oil Highlights Research and Technology Needs for Effective Cleanup of Oil Spill. The hearing is archived on the committee's website: http://science.house.gov

CS 250 unit can be easily deployed into the marshlands on shallow draft vessels and operated by personnel with minimum training needed. This CINC Centrifuge has a small 2 foot x 2 foot footprint and is constructed with a High Density polyurethane housing for a compact lightweight machine. They can be run off of a 5.5 kw generator. This unit is specifically designed for oil spill cleanup. Significant weight reduction over old style (V-10) CINC units designed for land based applications. The outer housing is manufactured of the same material found in offshore sea buoys. Each machine can process up to 25 gallons per minute (36,000 gallons per day) of oily water waste to the same discharge quality as the larger size CINC machines currently being deployed in deep water.

As the large deep water machines currently have a long lead time of several months and are not deployable into the sensitive marshland areas being poisoned by the oily waste TODAY these CINC Solutions CS 250 centrifuges represent the quickest, most cost effective deployment of the technology to severely impacted areas throughtout the Gulf of Mexico.

John Houghtaling, Costner's chief partner in the project, told WWL First News that BP has ordered 32 of the devices for use in the Gulf of Mexico.

"In a matter of weeks, we can be manufacturing ten of these a week," Houghtaling said. "So we're hoping by the first of August to have all 32 of these things in the Gulf."

Costner's company is moving toward leasing 16 more oil sucking and separating machines to Plaquemines Parish officials directly. They say if BP won't pay for that, they may sell the oil local officials pull from the water and fund the machines that way.

Enviro Voraxial Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: EVTN) announced today that the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has resulted in an increase number of inquiries for EVTN's Voraxial® Separator.

The Voraxial® Separator is a unique in-line, continuous flow separator capable of separating large volumes of oil and water with greater efficiencies than solutions currently deployed. EVTN's high efficiency oil/ water separation technology represents a dramatic opportunity to advance the effectiveness of emergency oil spill response.

EVTN is currently participating in the Offshore Technology Conference ("OTC") May 3 - May 6 in Houston, Texas. OTC is the world's foremost event for the development of offshore energy resources in the fields of drilling, exploration, production and environmental protection. EVTN is showcasing various models of its Voraxial Separator and performing a live demonstration of the Voraxial performing a simulated oil spill recovery separation. EVTN has experienced a high volume of visitors at its booth during the first day of the conference.

The Voraxial® 2000 Separator processes and separates up to 2,000 barrels per day (bpd).

The current oil spill in the Gulf is estimated to be leaking at a rate of 5,000 barrels per day.

The Voraxial® can be installed on boats small enough to be transported by air for emergency deployment or mounted onboard large vessels for open-water oil spill recovery. The Voraxial can also be installed near the shoreline to capture and separate the oil prior to reaching land.

About EVTN: Enviro Voraxial Technology, Inc. (OTCBB "EVTN") is a Fort Lauderdale, Florida based CleanTech company that developed and manufactures the Voraxial Separator, a separation technology that is a core process in many sectors including: oil & gas exploration and production, mining, environmental, clean water, waste treatment, bio-fuel refining, remediation and much more.

The Voraxial® Separator is a cost-effective, mechanic separator that separates contaminants at high volumes with less space, energy and weight than conventional equipment. The Voraxial Separator benefits include: high volume/small footprint, no pressure drop requirement, 2-way or 3 way separation, handles fluctuations in flow rate and oil concentration without any adjustments, high "g" force and less maintenance than conventional equipment. The Voraxial® Separator technology is scaleable and universal in its implementation. These benefits result in significant cost savings to the customer, both acquisition and operating cost.

The separation market encompasses a series of multi-billion dollar segments, spread globally across many industries and applications. EVTN was originally founded as a high precision aerospace manufacturer that built the gyro platforms for the Hubble space telescope as well as missile and satellite components. EVTN re-invested its profits along with equity investors toward the development of the Voraxial® Separator. The Voraxial® is now successfully commercialized and is the exclusive focus of EVTN's business. EVTN owns significant IP surrounding the Voraxial®. EVTN is continuing to develop and market its Voraxial® Separator as stand-alone technology as well as a key component of a turnkey separation system to improve the efficiency of self-contained treatment systems for multiple applications. www.EVTN.com

Safe Harbor Disclosure -- This Press Release contains or incorporates by reference "forward-looking statements," including certain information with respect to plans and strategies of Enviro Voraxial® Technology, Inc. For this purpose, any statements regarding this announcement, which are not purely historical, are forward-looking statements, within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including Enviro Voraxial® Technology, Inc. beliefs, expectations, hopes or intentions regarding the future. All forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof and based on information available to Enviro Voraxial® Technology, Inc. as of such date. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual events or actual results of Enviro Voraxial® and its subsidiaries to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements.

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Genoil (TSX-V:GNO - News)(OTC.BB:GNOLF - News) updates its shareholders on its sand decontamination & oil water separation technologies. In a recent press release Genoil discussed its sand and soil decontamination technology which works alongside the Genoil Crystal Sea Oil Water Separator. These technologies address all the oil spill contamination emergencies in the Gulf of Mexico including the beaches, and the Louisiana marshlands. The sand cleaner can be portable and built especially to operate using salt water which makes it much more profitable. This portability and adaptability enables it to do cleanup at the location much faster than a non-portable unit.

The Coast Guard & ABS (American Bureau of Shipping) approved Crystal Separator's reduces oil contaminated water to 2.5 parts per million in contamination versus the Kevin Costner's brother's Ocean Therapy water cleaner which is said to clean the water to 97% to 99% purity or 30,000 to 10,000 parts per million contamination. The Genoil Crystal Sea provides the most significant oil contamination solutions to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. Mr. Costner's technology has not been certified by the United States Coast Guard regulations as its purity levels for the discharge of water in the ports, lakes or rivers of the United States are very substantially above legal requirements while Genoil's Crystal Sea is US Coast Guard approved.

The sand cleaner of Genoil can return the Gulf of Mexico's contaminated shoreline to a purity worthy of the most picturesque beaches, marshlands and shorelines in the world.

BP has shown interest in Genoil's cleanup solutions and they are in discussions with Genoil regarding the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Genoil is also in discussions with United States authorities as its oil separation technologies are the most advanced in the world for the contaminated shorelines. While this crisis develops in the Gulf of Mexico, Genoil is in discussions in the Middle East regarding oil spills from the first Gulf War of 1991 for extensive oil contamination that covers an astounding 800 miles of beaches at a depth of six feet stemming from tactical military decisions of Saddam Hussein which created one of the greatest ecological disasters in history.

The Genoil Chief Executive Officer, David K. Lifschultz, has been working in the Middle East supervising this potential project as other green projects entailing environmental cleanups for the area's ports using its Crystal Sea Separators water purifier and sand cleaner.

Genoil has the leading environmental cleanup technologies, and is in the process of rolling them out over the entire world.

Genoil has previously reported the allowance by the United States patent office of a patent on its sand decontaminating unit which has now been granted as a full patent, and has also just been allowed a second patent for this sand decontaminating unit. Its Crystal Sea water purifier is also patented in the United States. The Crystal Sea is the most advanced, state of the art water purifier and its costs are 75% below its nearest competition. Also, the Crystal Sea combined with our sand/soil decontamination unit offers a total solution to the monumental Gulf of Mexico cleanup problems.

Crystal Sea Separator ^TM, an affordable revolutionary bilge water treatment system certified by the US Coast Guard and the American Bureau of Shipping, provides fresh clean and crystal clear water. Crystal Sea has exceeded the highest guidelines and compliance standards of the United States Coast Guard and the International Maritime Organizations Resolution MEPC 107 (49) for pollution prevention equipment for ship bilges. Manufactured by DongHwa Entec in Korea, our separators ensure high performance, outstanding reliability, and are suited for a wide range of installations. The system can reduce the impurities in water to 2.5 parts per million without the use of any chemicals, and with much lower cost of operation than conventional separators. As with the Crystal Separator, user friendly features such as semi automated operation, self-cleaning oil sensors, and automatic shut down. Quick and easy setup, so that any time, effort, or money needed for installation is significantly reduced.

Crystal Separator, is a land based two phase oily water separation unit, similar to Crystal Sea, designed to treat the liquid phases in stages located within a single unit. Each stage is devised to remove oil particles of a certain size and to render the liquid cleaner for the next stage. This ensures greater effectiveness and manageable loads for each stage. Furthermore, it also precludes undue contamination and clogging of various stages by oil, resulting in trouble-free simple and inexpensive automated operation. As with the Crystal Sea Separator and unique to the industry, the four separation principles gravity, coalescing beads, vortex, and filtering employed in this design are simple, and have no moving parts. There are no limitations on oil particle size, and Crystal can separate emulsions and oils with very high densities. Our separator has an ultra compact footprint, Its incredibly versatile. It can be utilized in a wide range of applications such as sand washing plants, oil platforms, wastewater treatment plants and salt mines.

The Genoil Diamond, a three phase well testing separator efficiently separates three immiscible phases with different densities, such as associated natural gas, crude oil, water and sand. The system is designed to operate as a self-contained and compact unit that can be used to test oil well production in remote areas. It can be mounted in a permanent location or on a flat-bed trailer and moved from well to well. When the well test separator is towed to an oil well and connected to the wellhead it can connect to a well production line from atop the trailer. Amazingly separated oil is returned to the production line while sand and other sediments, gas and water are discharged separately. The Genoil Diamond well testing system has several advantages over conventional well testing technologies that cannot be utilized as mobile units. Unlike conventional well test separators, the Diamond achieves separation of the three phases with virtually no heat consumption and no chemical requirements. Competing well testing technologies achieve separation by gravity with the fluid heated to elevated temperatures

The gulf oil spill is still causing headaches for residents and those who fish for a living, but a company in Hernando, Mississippi said the current approach is not working and they have a way to help.

Frustration is mounting as the massive oil leak grows and millions of gallons continue to threaten the gulf and the shoreline.

Larry Matthews, president of Hydrasep, said his company was ready to step in with a revolutionary piece of equipment.

"We can process 1.2 million gallons of sea water every 24 hours," Matthews said. "We can get the oil recovered, we can help do something, but it sits right here."

The device built and designed by Hydrasep siphons off and captures the oil from contaminated water, leaving the water clean and over 99 percent pure.

Matthews said the current national focus was in the wrong place.

"We hear about the government worried about how it happened," Matthews said. "There's time for blame later on, let's fix the problem."

Hydrasep recently received a call from the Mississippi Governor's office asking them to meet with a company they have contracted to help with the spill.

Matthews said he was ready to go at a moment's notice.

"I would say if this device is one of the fixes we've got to move quicker because the oil is still contaminating the gulf," Matthews said.

Matthews said he has pumps ready in various sizes. He said the current process is a start but not a solution.

The Hydrasep® technology is ideal for pump-and-treat systems where free product is present. It is specifically designed to handle large fluctuations in flow rate and contaminant concentration. These conditions are prevalent in multi-well systems.

Whether your contaminant is an LNAPL or a DNAPL, Hydrasep® will successfully remove it from the groundwater. In many instances, the recovered product’s moisture content will be low enough to burn or recycle.

Because Hydrasep® has no moving parts, no replaceable parts, no coalescing elements, no meshes, and no power consumption; it is a very cost-effective low-maintenance high performance groundwater treatment system.

Some of the groundwater contaminants that Hydrasep® has successfully recovered include:

Available Applications

The Hydrasep® models most commonly used for groundwater treatment are listed below. The descriptions below will help guide you towards selecting the product best suited for your application.

RCT DNAPL

For DNAPLs in concentrations less than 50%, consider our RCT/DNAPL product line.

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RGF Environmental Group president and CEO, Ron Fink, announced a 30% discount on their oil water separation and recycling equipment. Ron stated, "The Gulf oil spill is a national emergency that requires an extraordinary effort by all in the environmental business. This spill will affect every beach town in four states. If we can make our equipment more affordable for these towns to aid in the clean up, then we have a moral obligation to do so."

RGF engineers, designs and manufactures over 500 environmental products including small, lightweight portable oil water separators and pressure cleaning recycling equipment.

RGF Environmental Group was founded in 1985 for the purpose of providing the world with the safest and purest water, air and food without the use of chemicals. RGF manufactures air, water and food purification systems utilizing their Photohydroionization PHI technology.

Abanaki Corporation reports that its patent-pending Fuzzy2™ oil skimmer material has been at work on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for 30 days and is exceeding expectations by recovering up to 385 gallons of oil per minute from the water's surface, more than three times the capacity of ordinary oil skimmer material.

Abanaki's Fuzzy2 material is attached to the surface of 30-inch diameter oil skimming disks on a floating skimmer made by CRUCIAL Inc. of Gretna, Louisiana. CRUCIAL has tested the material in front of oil clean-up experts, and the company expects to see an increase in orders for its disk skimmer equipment.

A disk oil skimmer uses a rotating disk to remove oil from water. Oleophilic (oil attracting) material collects oil as the disk passes through the water, and wiper blades scrape off the oil for collection. Unlike other oil skimmer disk materials, Fuzzy2 has a hairy surface that greatly increases its surface area, making it more effective at removing oil floating on the surface of the Gulf.

According to Abanaki president Tom Hobson, "The beauty of the Fuzzy2 is that it can be retrofitted to virtually any brand of drum- or disk-type oil skimmer out there, making it possible for existing oil skimmers to triple their pickup rates."

A mile below the water surface, the Deepwater Horizon oil well has spewed oil following an explosion that killed 11 workers April 21. The spill has exceeded the Exxon Valdez as the worst spill in U.S. history.

For more information and to see a video demonstration, visit www.abanaki.com/122.

About Abanaki Corporation: Abanaki, the world leader in oil skimmer products,manufactures a wide range of products to remove oils, greases, solvents, and related hydrocarbons from water. Belt and Tube skimmer models are available with removal rates ranging from 1 to 200 gallons per hour in both stationary and portable systems. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Abanaki has served a global customer base in industries as diverse as iron and steel, wastewater, paper, food processing, automotive, environmental remediation and recycling for more than 40 years. Today, under the corporate motto "Clean Our World™," Abanaki continues to address pollution in industry through innovation, customer commitment, and environmental stewardship within its own operations

The chemicals BP is now relying on to break up the steady flow of leaking oil from deep below the Gulf of Mexico could create a new set of environmental problems.

Even if the materials, called dispersants, are effective, BP has already bought up more than a third of the world’s supply. If the leak from 5,000 feet beneath the surface continues for weeks, or months, that stockpile could run out.

On Thursday BP began using the chemical compounds to dissolve the crude oil, both on the surface and deep below, deploying an estimated 100,000 gallons. Dispersing the oil is considered one of the best ways to protect birds and keep the slick from making landfall. But the dispersants contain harmful toxins of their own and can concentrate leftover oil toxins in the water, where they can kill fish and migrate great distances.The exact makeup of the dispersants is kept secret under competitive trade laws, but a worker safety sheet for one product, called Corexit, says it includes 2-butoxyethanol, a compound associated with headaches, vomiting and reproductive problems at high doses.

“There is a chemical toxicity to the dispersant compound that in many ways is worse than oil,” said Richard Charter, a foremost expert on marine biology and oil spills who is a senior policy advisor for Marine Programs for Defenders of Wildlife and is chairman of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council. “It’s a trade off – you’re damned if you do damned if you don’t -- of trying to minimize the damage coming to shore, but in so doing you may be more seriously damaging the ecosystem offshore.”

Dispersants are mixtures of solvents, surfactants and other additives that break up the surface tension of an oil slick and make oil more soluble in water, according to a paper published by the National Academy of Sciences. They are spread over or in the water in very low concentration – a single gallon may cover several acres