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
