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Showing 1 to 20 of 177 for “"Spills"”.
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Simulating and visualizing marine oil spills
… simulation of the fate and transport of oil spills. Techniques of computer graphics will be applied to present the state of this system as a visual output. Through a large set of accessible parameters and data, the variation of the system in terms of spill simulation, and model tuning, will …
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Mathematical Modeling of Fluid Spills in Hydraulically Fractured Well Sites
<p>Improved drilling technology and favorable energy prices have contributed to the rapid pace at which the exploitation of unconventional natural gas is taking place across the United States. As a natural gas well is being drilled, reserve pits are constructed to hold the drilling fluids and other …
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Design of a flexible containment system for deep ocean oil spills
… that one design of the system can contain spills of moderate size in addition to those similar to the Deepwater Horizon.
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Effects of droplet size on intrusion of sub-surface oil spills
… size on droplet intrusion in sub-surface oil spills. Laboratory experiments were performed where glass beads of various sizes, which serve to simulate oil droplets in deepsea oil spills, were released vertically in a quiescent salinity stratified ambient and descended as multi-phase plumes. …
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Ageing of HDPE Geomembranes Used to Contain Landfill Leachate or Hydrocarbon Spills
… solid waste landfill leachate and in hydrocarbon spills to the environment is examined. The evaluation of the ageing of GMs used in landfills involved four components. First, a laboratory-accelerated ageing investigation of a GM exposed to air, water and leachate at elevated temperatures. Service …
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Risk assessment of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing fluid spills in Pennsylvania
… from shale gas development is that of surface spills. Several million gallons of fluid are managed on each well site; significant risk for spill exists at several stages in the extraction process. While surface spills have been primarily analyzed from the perspective of surface water …
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Clean Up Techniques Used for Coastal Oil Spills: An Analysis of Spills Occurring in Santa Barbara, California, Prince William Sound, Alaska, the Sea Of Japan, and the Gulf Coast
<p>An analysis of four spills occurring within the last 50 years to see the progression in clean up techniques used for coastal oil spills. The Santa Barbara, California Oil Spill of 1969, the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill of 1989 occurring in Prince William Sound, Alaska, the Nakhodka Oil Spill of 1997 …
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Numerical Simulations of Oil Spills and Wind Turbine Flows for Applications in Offshore Environmental Sustainability
… guidance for fast-response strategy when oil spills happen and design of offshore wind turbines.
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Prevention of oil spills by tankers : feasibility study of a safety and environmental index (SEI)
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1995.
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Hydrocarbon spills in continental waters: a new regulatory approach in light of Mexico´s energy reform
The research assesses if Mexico will benefit from the enactment of an environmental quality standard (EQS) for water contaminated with hydrocarbons, in light of Mexico’s energy reform. In addition, the research assesses the institutional challenges faced when trying to enforce such EQS, and the …
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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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Surface Spills Associated with Oil and Gas Activities in Saskatchewan and Potential Impacts to Shallow Groundwater Resources
… as well as emerging evidence of oilfield spills and concomitant public scrutiny, there has not been a detailed analysis conducted on the data surrounding the spatiotemporal distribution of spills, the identification of the source of spills, and the potential risks from spills to shallow …
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The effect of composition on the boiling rates of liquefied natural gas for confined spills on water
Thesis. 1978. Sc.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Chemical Engineering.
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Damage assessment and liability compensation for marine oil spills : short and long term strategies that achieve international consensus
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1997.
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An Evaluation of the Effects of Marine Oil-spills, Remediation Strategies, and Shipwrecks on Microbial Community Structure and Succession
… our understanding of microbial response to oil-spills, remediation strategies, and shipwrecks, in a range of marine environments, but also highlights the importance of harnessing such knowledge and data to advance post-incident monitoring guidelines and models.
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Surface spills at unconventional oil and gas sites: a contaminant transport modeling study for the South Platte alluvial aquifer
… transport simulations of aqueous fluid surface spills, the most likely pathway for groundwater contamination during oil and gas production operations, with four primary goals: (1) to evaluate whether or not these spills pose risks to groundwater quality in the South Platte aquifer system, (2) to …
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Oil spills in cold climates with special reference to the transportation and exploration of hydrocarbons in the Kara Sea
Oil spilled in ice infested waters have frequently been under investigation through the last twenty years. This has been induced by the prospects of large oil reserves offshore both in the American and Russian Arctic. Two oil spill scenarios considering the oil exploration in the Kara Sea have been …
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The Vulnerability of the Coast of Liberia to Marine Oil Spills: Implications for Biodiversity and Renewable Natural Resource Utilization
… of the coastal and marine environment to oil spills. Household surveys were conducted to assess the dependency of rural households on renewable coastal and marine resources and consequently, the potential threats to their livelihoods in the event of an oil spill. The surveys (N=316) were …
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Fates of spilt oil and factors affecting the bio-degradation of oil: a review
… products is increasing; in turn, the number of spills is also going up. The inland spills are the more recurrent spills in the U.S today. This review article deals with the weathering of oils, which commences just after oil spills into the environment with various processes such as evaporation, …
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Liability for pollution damage from offshore oil spills: The CLC and fund conventions, the EU's Environmental Liability Directive and their implications for New Zealand law
This thesis will apply conventional methods of legal analysis to ask how New Zealand’s offshore petroleum liability regime came to be created from a pair of international shipping liability and fund conventions, and explaining how the EU and Member States developed and implemented the Environmental …
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