Oil spill science and technology / [editor] Mervin Fingas, Spill Science, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fingas, Mervin F., author.

Contributor:

Fingas, Mervin F., editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oil spills--Prevention.

Oil spills.

Oil spills--Cleanup.

Oil spills--Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 1056 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Gulf Professional Publishing, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Oil Spill Science and Technology, Second Edition, delivers a multi-contributed view on the entire chain of oil-spill related topics from oil properties and behaviors, to remote sensing through the management side of contingency planning and communicating oil spill risk perceptions. Completely new case studies are included with special attention to the Deepwater Horizon event, covering the impacts of wetlands and sand beaches, a mass balance approach, and the process for removing petroleum chemicals still trapped near Alabama beaches. Other new information on lingering oil left behind from the Exxon Valdez spill, the emergency system used in the Prestige incident, and coverage on the Heibei Spirit spill in Korea are also included. This updated edition combines technology with case studies to identify the current state of knowledge surrounding oil spills that will encourage additional areas of research that are left to uncover in this critical sector of the oil and gas industry. Updated with new chapters on risk analysis and communication, contingency planning, restoration, and case studies Supported with technological advances evolved from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil tragedy and events in the Arctic/Antarctic Multi-contributed from various industry experts to provide an extensive background in technical equipment and worldwide procedures used today

Contents:

1. Oil spills and risk perceptions / A.H. Walker

2. Quantification of oil spill risk / D.S. Etkin [and five others]

3. Oil physical properties : measurement and correlation / B. Hollebone

4. Chemical fingerprints of crude oils and petroleum products / C. Yang [and seven others]

5. Oil spill remote sensing / M. Fingas, C.E. Brown

6. Oil spill detection using space-borne sentinel-1 SAR imagery / K. Topouzelis, S. Singha

7. Laser fluorosensors / C.E. Brown

8. Introduction to spill modeling / M. Fingas

9. Physical spill countermeasures on water-response in fast currents / K.A. Hansen

10. In situ burning : an update / M. Fingas

11. Shoreline countermeasures / E.H. Owens

12. Bioremediation of oil spills on land / L.D. Brown [and three others]

13. Sunken and submerged oil / J. Michel, K.A. Hansen

14. Oil pollution in Antarctica / T. Raymond [and four others]

15. Deepwater horizon well blowout mass balance / M. Fingas

16. Assessing the increase in background oil-contamination levels along Alabama's beaches resulting from the deepwater horizon oil spill / T.P. Clement, G.F. John, F. Yin

17. Remote sensing of oil slicks for the deepwater horizon damage assessment / J.V. Holmes, G. Graettinger, I.R. MacDonald

18. The Hebei spirit oil spill, 2007 / U.H. Yim, W.J. Shim

19. Health aspects of the Hebei spirit oil spill / M.-S. Park [and three others]

20. Recent studies on the effects of oil / G. Shigenaka.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 8, 2016).

ISBN:

9780128110966

0128110961

9780128094136

0128094133

OCLC:

967729418