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Oil Spill Remediation
Colloid Chemistry-Based Principles and Solutions
Ponisseril Somasundaran (Author), Partha Patra (Author), Raymond S. Farinato (Author), Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Author)
9781118206706, Wiley
Hardback, published 17 June 2014
392 pages
24.3 x 16.3 x 2.8 cm, 0.689 kg
This book provides a comprehensive overview of oil spill remediation from the perspectives of policy makers, scientists, and engineers, generally focusing on colloid chemistry phenomena and solutions involved in oil spills and their cleanup.
• First book to address oil spill remediation from the perspective of physicochemical and colloidal science
• Discusses current and emerging detergents used in clean-ups
• Includes chapters from leading scientists, researchers, engineers, and policy makers
• Presents new insights into the possible impact of oil spills on ecosystems as well as preventive measures
Foreword vii Preface ix Contributors xi 1 Science-Based Decision Making on the Use of Dispersants in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 1 2 Understanding and Properly Interpreting the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Blowout 19 3 Remediation and Restoration of Northern Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ecosystems Following the Deepwater Horizon Event 59 4 Challenges in and Approaches to Modeling the Complexities of Deepwater Oil and Gas Release 89 5 Oil Films: Some Basic Concepts 127 6 Remediating Oilfield Waste and Spills 161 7 Multipronged Approach for Oil Spill Remediation 175 8 Packed-Bed Capillary Microscopy on BP-Oil-Spill Oil in Porous Media 189 9 Jameson Cell Technology for Organics Recovery 221 10 Development of Gelling Agent for Spilled Oils 231 11 Microstructures of Capped Ethylene Oxide Oligomers in Water and n-Hexane 247 12 Some Colloidal Fundamentals in Oil Spill Remediation: The Water/Surfactant/Hydrocarbon Combination 259 13 Physicochemical Properties of Heavy Oil–Water Interface in the Context of Oil Removal from Seawater by Froth Flotation 279 14 Measurement of Interfacial Tension in Hydrocarbon/Water/Dispersant Systems at Deepwater Conditions 295 15 Surfactant Technologies for Remediation of Oil Spills 317 16 Role of Structural Forces in Cleaning Soiled Surfaces 359 Index 371
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Rupesh K. Reddy, A. Rao, Z. Yu, C. Wu, K. Nandakumar, L. Thibodeaux, and Kalliat T. Valsaraj
Johan Sjöblom and Sébastien Simon
Raymond S. Farinato
Partha Patra and Ponisseril Somasundaran
Peixi Zhu, Qing Wang, Yuly A. Jaimes-Lizcano, and Kyriakos Papadopoulos
Graeme J. Jameson
Kazutami Sakamoto
Mangesh I. Chaudhari and Lawrence R. Pratt
S. E. Friberg, H. Hasinovic, and Pi Belobrov
Louxiang Wang, Meghan Curran, Meijiao Deng, Qingxia Liu, Zhenghe Xu, and Jacob Masliyah
Mohamed A. Abdelrahim and Dandina N. Rao
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Subject Areas: Chemistry [PN]
