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SPILL AND BURNING BEHAVIOR OF FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS
Unconfined liquid spill depths were measured for two liquid fuels and three non-flammable liquids atop a smooth concrete pad. Unconfined liquid spill thicknesses were found to be less than 0.1 cm in all fuels and liquids similar to fuels. Spill fires were conducted with volumes ranging from 0.2 ml …
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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
… the potential of hydrophobic meshes as oil spill recovery devices. A fabrication method was developed using steel mesh dip-coated in a hot solution of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) in xylene. The mesh gained a rough, hydrophobic coating of LDPE, with tunable pore sizes and surface …
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Brine Spill Remediation: Crestwood Pipeline, McKenzie County, North Dakota
… of soil samples collected at a coproduced brine spill site near Mandaree, McKenzie County, North Dakota suggest that the site has been remediated. Five soil samples were taken from the area 12 inches below the ground surface. In the lab the saturation extract (Rhoades, 1982) method was used to …
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Estimated Business Interruptions Losses of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
… 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 of …
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Identification and monitoring of oil pipeline spill fire using space applications
Oil pipeline spills in the Niger Delta cause a great deal of environmental damage to sensitive ecosystems and losses of many millions of dollars to the Nigerian economy every year. These spills occur along the routes of pipeline infrastructure and other oil facilities like flowlines, trunk lines, …
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Feasibilty study of phytoremediation of ethylene dibromide (EDB) on fuel spill
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000.
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Spatiotemporal Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Benthic Meiofauna Communities
… 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
… 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. Additionally, …
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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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Impact Of A Diesel Spill On Macroinvertebrate Communities In Ponds In S.E. Alabama, USA
… in ponds on a wetlands property after a diesel spill. In 2012, a train derailed, and at least 3000 gallons of diesel fuel leached into a small pond of the wetlands. Even after clean-up attempts there remains major concerns that the contamination spread throughout the wetlands. This concern led …
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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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Modeling of a jet fuel spill in the groundwater at the Massachusetts Military Reservation
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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The Effect of Spill Contaminants on Marine Biofilms and Microbially-Induced Corrosion of Carbon Steel
… the deep-sea when they become artificial reefs. Spilled crude oil and chemical dispersant from the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) spill may have impacted the preservation of deep-sea historic shipwrecks and their microbiomes if they are located in areas where oil and dispersant were deposited on the …
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Rethinking innovation : the knowledge spill over strategic entrepreneurship In micro and small firms in Nigeria
… firms in advanced countries. Employing knowledge spillover theory of strategic entrepreneurship and using case study of selected micro and small firms in Nigeria, the study contextualises (i.e consider what is innovative to be context dependent) innovation, stripped of its contextual origin, to …
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