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Showing 1 to 20 of 128 for “"Oil Spill"”.
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Decision support framework for oil spill response
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1986.
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Optimization of hydrophobic meshes for oil spill recovery
… oleophilic surfaces. These meshes can perform oil/water separation in situ, continuously, via capillary action. The goal of this study is to determine the potential of hydrophobic meshes as oil spill recovery devices. A fabrication method was developed using steel mesh dip-coated in a hot …
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Estimated Business Interruptions Losses of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
… business interruption losses associated with an oil spill. Specifically, this framework is applied to the Deepwater Horizon incident which occurred on April 20, 2010 and resulted in the extensive fouling of the Gulf of Mexico waters and the associated coastline. The region of analysis is the …
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Eco-Friendly Chemical Herders For Remediation Of Maritime Oil Spill
<p>Crude oil spills on a sea surface can cause severe and immediate damage to marine life, as well as long term damage to the aquatic ecosystem. Current response methods for maritime oil spill remediation are twofold: The first are the use of floating barrier booms to confine and thicken the spill …
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Mass media and alternative coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill
… analysis, 132 articles on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill were selected and analyzed in four alternative magazines and one American newspaper. It was hypothesized that content varied according to the differences in media type. Results suggested that differences in media do have impact on coverage …
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Spatiotemporal Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Benthic Meiofauna Communities
… 2010, the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill began in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Millions of barrels of oil contaminants were expelled from the wellhead at a water depth of 1525 meters, in what would be one of the largest oil spills in history. A large portion of these contaminants …
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White Graphene Nanostructured Magnetic Sorbents for Oil-spill Cleanup: Synthesis and Performance Evaluation
… the world’s main energy source, latent risk for oil spills during extraction, processing and storage must be properly managed and considered for a contingency plan. In the last half century, big catastrophes related to oil spills have caused oil companies millions of dollars in losses. …
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OIL SPILL CLEANUP BY HYDROPHOBIC SILICA AEROGELS AND SPILLED OIL INTERACTION WITH SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS
Silica aerogel is a promising adsorbent for oil spill cleanup. To make it an economic and environmentally-friendly adsorbent, the effectiveness of thermal regeneration of silica aerogels is investigated in this study. After hydrocarbon desorption at 80 °C, the adsorption capacities of regenerated …
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Statistical approach for determining the extent of an oil spill over a rough surface.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Thesis. 1972. M.S.
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Ambit of Multiphase CFD in Modelling Transport Processes Related to Oil Spill Scenario and Microfluidics
… deep sea in 2010, about 4.9 million barrels of oil was released into the Gulf of Mexico, making the spill one of the worst ocean spills in recent times. To mitigate the ill effects of the event on the environment, subsea injection of dispersants was carried out. Dispersant addition lowers the …
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Social Vulnerability in the Wake of 2010 BP Oil Spill: The Case of Southeast Louisiana
… impacts of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon (BP-DH) oil spill in South Louisiana. The coastal region affected by this disaster is made up of rural communities whose residents rely on the Gulf of Mexico and its resources for their livelihoods. Understanding how this disaster has impacted the general …
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Comprehensive study of a heavy fuel oil spill : modeling and analytical approaches to understanding environmental weathering
Driven by increasingly heavy oil reserves and more efficient refining technologies, use of heavy fuel oils for power generation is rising. Unlike other refined products and crude oils, a large portion of these heavy oils is undetectable using the traditional gas chromatography-based techniques on …
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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon determination in liver of Menhaden exposed to the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill
<p>The April 2010 BP® oil spill has caused great concern for ecological impacts in the Gulf of Mexico. Crude oil contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) and oil spills increase the exposure of aquatic organisms to this class of chemicals. The overall detrimental health effects associated …
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Modeling the transport and fate of oil-particle aggregates after an oil spill in inland waterways
Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-02T20:24:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 ZHU-DISSERTATION-2015.pdf: 59693387 bytes, checksum: a96c083dca80f6513348fa5f75ff0509 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4208 bytes, checksum: c09f2592df610e5138737da8e8366e04 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-01
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Comprehensive study of a heavy fuel oil spill : modeling and analytical approaches to understanding environmental weathering
Driven by increasingly heavy oil reserves and more efficient refining technologies, use of heavy fuel oils for power generation is rising. Unlike other refined products and crude oils, a large portion of these heavy oils is undetectable using the traditional gas chromatography-based techniques on …
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Petrogenic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Levels and Health of Gulf Coast Communities Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was responsible for the release of over five million barrels of crude oil, containing petrogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), into the Gulf of Mexico. Few studies have described the effects that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has had on human …
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Risk, Oil Spills, and Governance: Can Organizational Theory Help Us Understand the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
<p>The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico awakened communities to the increased risk of large-scale damage along their coastlines presented by new technology in deep water drilling. Normal accident theory and high reliability theory offer a framework through which to view the …
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Environmental risk management of contamination of marine biota by hydrocarbons specifically those arising following an oil spill.
Marine pollution resulting from oil spillage has received much attention mostly due to the damaging effects it has on fisheries and aquacultures. One component of oil that is widely studied due to its toxic and carcinogenic properties is the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The physical and …
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BP's Use of Twitter as a Crisis Communication Tool During the Gulf Oil Spill Crisis Response Phase
… Gulf of Mexico exploded, creating the largest oil spill in U.S. history. BP launched a major public relations response that targeted its online audience through strategic use of its corporate website, Twitter feed, Facebook page, YouTube channel, and Flickr photostream. This content analysis …
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Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Microbial-Mediated Cellulose Decomposition in Mississippi Gulf Coast Salt Marshes
… to examine the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on rates of marsh organic matter decomposition.<em> </em>Decomposition in surface and subsurface marsh sediments was assessed in stands of <em>Spartina alterniflora</em> and <em>Juncus roemerianus</em> in 9 Mississippi Gulf Coast marshes …
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