The Responder Toolkit contains a range of practical and user-friendly
electronic tools; available in a variety of languages.
Download free of charge.
Boom Deployment Calculator
A tool that performs the calculations required for the effective deployment of containment booms.
Available in English
Features
- Calculate the optimum deployment angles for oil containment booms.
- Define the length of boom required in relation to the effective width of the deployment.
- Calculate the minimum number of anchors required for a boom configuration.
- Comprehensive help system with product walk-through.
- Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, NT, XP and Vista compatible.
Conversion Calculator
A powerful conversion tool with responder specific categories, such as Volume to Weight and Application Rates, in addition to hundreds of standard units.
Available in English
Features
- Convert between several units at any one time.
- Results update as you input data.
- Preferences can be customised.
- Comprehensive help system with product walk-through.
- Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, NT, XP and Vista compatible.
Oil on Water Trajectory Calculator
The Responder Toolkit, 'Oil on Water Trajectory Calculator', is a user friendly interactive program that performs the calculations required to predict the movement of oil on the seas surface.
Available in English, Francais, Espanol and Suomalainen
Features
- Intuitive input of wind and current data, location information and times
- Results update as you input data, allowing you to visualise effects of varying wind or currents
- Imperial and metric data can be used for the input and results
- Comprehensive help system with product walk-through
- Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, NT, XP and Vista compatible.
A Professional Version is also available
(contact us for more details)
- Allows you to input up to 12 sets of data
- Output results to Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet
- Plots a scale drawing of the oil trajectory
Waste Management Calculator
The Waste Management Calculator is an interactive, graphic-oriented computer tool for use by non-technical (or technical) managers, decision makers, and planners.
Available in English
This tool can be used to evaluate response options with regards to the types and approximate volumes of wastes that potentially would be generated by different response techniques and different treatment endpoint standards.
The tool was developed jointly by Polaris Applied Sciences, Inc. and The Oil Spill Training Company Ltd, for the Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response (EPPR) Working Group of the Arctic Council under the direction of the Joint Secretariat (Inuvialuit Settlement Region), with support from the Governments of Canada, Norway and the United States.
Features
- Intuitive input of substrate, oil type and surface oil category
- View the results as a graph or in a table both of which can be printed
- Results update as you input data, allowing you to visualise effects of various options
- Full user guide explains the different response techniques and endpoint standards
- Windows 2000, NT, XP and Vista compatible.
BACMAN Oil Munching Adventure
The original, exciting, oil munching adventure, Bacman is a unique game in which you have to save Colin the Crab's habitat from dispersed oil.
Available in English
Features
- Control the bacteria to breakdown the oil droplets and ensure that Colin remains in the area.
- Score points for each droplet eaten. The larger the droplet, the higher the score.
- Collect bonus symbols for superior speed and skills.
- Top ten high scores are saved.
- Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, NT, XP and Vista compatible
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