Oil Spill Remediation

Foreword vii
Preface ix
Contributors xi
1 Science-Based Decision Making on the Use of Dispersants in theDeepwater 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 DeepwaterHorizon Blowout 19
Sean S. Anderson, Charles H. Peterson, Gary Cherr, RichardAmbrose, Shelly Anghera, Steve Bay, Michael J. Blum, Rob Condon,Thomas Dean, William (Monty) Graham, Michael Guzy, StephanieHampton, Samantha Joye, John Lambrinos, Bruce Mate, DouglasMeffert, Sean Powers, Ponisseril Somasundaran, Robert Spies, CazTaylor, and Ronald Tjeerdema by Nceas Gulf Oil Spill Ecotox WorkingGroup
3 Remediation and Restoration of Northern Gulf of Mexico CoastalEcosystems Following the Deepwater Horizon Event 59
Michael J. Blum, Brittany M. Bernik, Thomas Azwell, and EricM.V. Hoek
4 Challenges in and Approaches to Modeling the Complexities ofDeepwater 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 PorousMedia 189
Peixi Zhu, Qing Wang, Yuly A. Jaimes-Lizcano, and KyriakosPapadopoulos
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 Waterand n-Hexane 247
Mangesh I. Chaudhari and Lawrence R. Pratt
12 Some Colloidal Fundamentals in Oil Spill Remediation: TheWater/Surfactant/Hydrocarbon Combination 259
S. E. Friberg, H. Hasinovic, and Pi Belobrov
13 Physicochemical Properties of Heavy Oil-Water Interfacein the Context of Oil Removal from Seawater by Froth Flotation279
Louxiang Wang, Meghan Curran, Meijiao Deng, Qingxia Liu, ZhengheXu, and Jacob Masliyah
14 Measurement of Interfacial Tension inHydrocarbon/Water/Dispersant Systems at Deepwater Conditions295
Mohamed A. Abdelrahim and Dandina N. Rao
15 Surfactant Technologies for Remediation of Oil Spills317
Edgar J. Acosta and Suniya Quraishi
16 Role of Structural Forces in Cleaning Soiled Surfaces359
Darsh Wasan, Alex Nikolov, and Gopi Sethumadhavan
Index 371