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Petroleum spills in the marine environment : the chemistry and formation of water-in-oil emulsions and tar balls

Title
Petroleum spills in the marine environment : the chemistry and formation of water-in-oil emulsions and tar balls / by James R. Payne and Charles R. Phillips.
Author
Payne, James R.
Publication
Chelsea, MI : Lewis Publishers, ©1985.

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Additional Authors
Phillips, Charles R. (Charles Robert), 1951-
Description
x, 148 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Oil spills
  • Emulsions
  • Petroleum > Biodegradation
  • emulsion
  • Biologischer Abbau
  • Emulsion
  • Erdöl
  • Meeresverschmutzung
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 121-139.
Contents
LABORATORY STUDIES OF FORMATION AND STABILITY OF WATER IN OIL EMULSIONS: Background -- Specific studies -- Mousse formation in the presence of ice -- Identification of emulsifying agents responsible for mousse formation -- Physical and behavioral properties of water in oil emulsions -- Breaking and Interaction of laboratory mousse with dispersants -- Bacterial utilization of laboratory generated mousse -- SELECTED CASE HISTORIES OF THE MORE DETAILED CHEMISTRY STUDIES OF MOUSSE BEHAVIOR AND LONG TERM FATE IN NEAR COASTAL AND OPEN OCEAN OIL SPILLS BLOWOUTS: Torrey canyon -- Tanker arrow -- Metula -- Ekofisk Bravo blowout -- US/NS Potomac in Melville Bay Greenland -- Amoco Cadiz -- IXTOC I blowout Bay of Campeche Gulf of Mexico -- Burmah Agate -- Alvenus -- Open ocean field tests of spilled petroleums -- TAR BALL FORMATION AND DISTRIBUTION: Global distribution of pelagic tar -- Chemical composition of tar balls -- Sources of pelagic tar -- Fate of pelagic tar at sea -- Fate of beached or stranded tar balls -- ALGORITHMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS TO SIMULATE THE FORMATION OF WATER IN OIL EMULSIONS: SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS AND CRITICAL CITATION REVIEW: Laboratory studies -- Physical properties of water in oil emulsions -- Treatment of mousse with dispersants -- Case histories of real spill events -- Tar ball distributions and chemistry -- Mathematical and computer modeling of mousse behavior.
ISBN
  • 0873710584
  • 9780873710589
LCCN
85013065
OCLC
  • ocm12216409
  • 12216409
  • SCSB-9130462
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library