Oil Spill Science and Technology

This updated edition will help readers better understand the latest technology innovations in oil spills, including those evolved from the Deepwater Horizon disaster

Mervin Fingas (Edited by)

9780128094136

Hardback, published 21 December 2016

1078 pages, 660 illustrations
22.9 x 15.1 x 5 cm, 1.83 kg

Approx.1056 pages

1. Spills and Risk Perceptions 2. Quantification of Oil Spill Risk 3. Oil Physical Properties: Measurement and Correlation 4. Chemical Fingerprints of Crude Oils and Petroleum Products 5. Oil Spill Remote Sensing 6. Oil Spill Detection Using Spaceborne SAR imagery: A New Era of Sentinel-1 7. Laser Fluorosensors  8. Introduction to Oil Spill Modeling  9. Response in Fast Currents  10. In-situ Burning: An Update 11. Shoreline Countermeasures  12. Bioremediation of Oil Spills on Land 13. Sunken and Submerged Oil 14. Oil Pollution in Antarctica 15. DeepWater Horizon Well Blowout Mass Balance 16. Assessing the Increase in Background Oil Contamination Levels Along Alabama's Beaches Resulting from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 17. Remote Sensing of Oil Slicks for the Deepwater Horizon Damage Assessment 18. The Hebei Spirit Oil Spill, 2007 19. Health Aspects of the Hebei Spirit Oil Spill 20. Effects of Oil in the Environment

Subject Areas: Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Petroleum technology [THFP], Fossil fuel technologies [THF]