Oil Spill Remediation (eBook)

Ponisseril Somasundaran, PhD, is Chairman of the Henry Krumb School at Columbia University and is currently on the board of the new United Engineering Foundation. He has authored/edited fifteen books and over 700 scientific publications and patents. Partha Patra, PhD, isResearch Scientist at Columbia University in New York. His research efforts focus on dealing with challenges associated with earth resource recovery and management, and development of engineering tools to promote usage of bioreagents in personal care, pharmaceuticals and food industries. Raymond S. Farinato, PhD,is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the In Process Separation department of Cytec Industries Inc. and an adjunct professor in the Earth & Environmental Engineering department at Columbia University. Kyriakos Papadopoulos, PhD, is Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. His capillary video-microscopy technique has been used in studies of dermal delivery of vaccines, oil-spill cleanup and improvement of engine lubricant oils.

Foreword vii

Preface ix

Contributors xi

1 Science-Based Decision Making on the Use of Dispersants in the
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 1

Albert D. Venosa, Paul T. Anastas, Mace G. Barron, Robyn N.
Conmy, Marc S. Greenberg, and Gregory J. Wilson

2 Understanding and Properly Interpreting the 2010 Deepwater
Horizon Blowout 19

Sean S. Anderson, Charles H. Peterson, Gary Cherr, Richard
Ambrose, Shelly Anghera, Steve Bay, Michael J. Blum, Rob Condon,
Thomas Dean, William (Monty) Graham, Michael Guzy, Stephanie
Hampton, Samantha Joye, John Lambrinos, Bruce Mate, Douglas
Meffert, Sean Powers, Ponisseril Somasundaran, Robert Spies, Caz
Taylor, and Ronald Tjeerdema by Nceas Gulf Oil Spill Ecotox Working
Group

3 Remediation and Restoration of Northern Gulf of Mexico Coastal
Ecosystems Following the Deepwater Horizon Event 59

Michael J. Blum, Brittany M. Bernik, Thomas Azwell, and Eric
M.V. Hoek

4 Challenges in and Approaches to Modeling the Complexities of
Deepwater Oil and Gas Release 89

Rupesh K. Reddy, A. Rao, Z. Yu, C. Wu, K. Nandakumar, L.
Thibodeaux, and Kalliat T. Valsaraj

5 Oil Films: Some Basic Concepts 127

Johan Sjöblom and Sébastien Simon

6 Remediating Oilfield Waste and Spills 161

Raymond S. Farinato

7 Multipronged Approach for Oil Spill Remediation 175

Partha Patra and Ponisseril Somasundaran

8 Packed-Bed Capillary Microscopy on BP-Oil-Spill Oil in Porous
Media 189

Peixi Zhu, Qing Wang, Yuly A. Jaimes-Lizcano, and Kyriakos
Papadopoulos

9 Jameson Cell Technology for Organics Recovery 221

Graeme J. Jameson

10 Development of Gelling Agent for Spilled Oils 231

Kazutami Sakamoto

11 Microstructures of Capped Ethylene Oxide Oligomers in Water
and n-Hexane 247

Mangesh I. Chaudhari and Lawrence R. Pratt

12 Some Colloidal Fundamentals in Oil Spill Remediation: The
Water/Surfactant/Hydrocarbon Combination 259

S. E. Friberg, H. Hasinovic, and Pi Belobrov

13 Physicochemical Properties of Heavy Oil-Water Interface
in the Context of Oil Removal from Seawater by Froth Flotation
279

Louxiang Wang, Meghan Curran, Meijiao Deng, Qingxia Liu, Zhenghe
Xu, and Jacob Masliyah

14 Measurement of Interfacial Tension in
Hydrocarbon/Water/Dispersant Systems at Deepwater Conditions
295

Mohamed A. Abdelrahim and Dandina N. Rao

15 Surfactant Technologies for Remediation of Oil Spills
317

Edgar J. Acosta and Suniya Quraishi

16 Role of Structural Forces in Cleaning Soiled Surfaces
359

Darsh Wasan, Alex Nikolov, and Gopi Sethumadhavan

Index 371