Oil spills are not generally considered a pure or even applied chemistry issue. However, this would be a very short-sighted interpretation. Effectively every element of an oil spill, whether environmental, physical, operational or legal, is related to the complex chemistry of the oil and its ...
This breaks one liquid into droplets of colloidal size, which then disperse throughout the other liquid. Oil spills in the ocean may be difficult to clean up, partly because wave action can cause the oil and water to form an emulsion. In many emulsions, however, the dispersed phase tends ...
He developed models for oil spills (Mackay, Buist, et al., 1980; Reed et al., 1999) and multimedia mass balance models linking fate and bioaccumulation (toxicokinetics) in natural (Arnot & Mackay, 2008; Arnot et al., 2006) and indoor (Webster et al., 2016) environments. He outlined ...
This is why we need to clean up oil spills By November 2010, almost 7000 large marine animals including birds, turtles and dolphins had turned up dead. Scientists predicted the hidden impact on smaller organisms like fish, plankton and deep-sea corals to be even greater. Persistent PAHs contin...
An Ultrahydrophobic Fluorous Metal–Organic Framework Derived Recyclable Composite as a Promising Platform to Tackle Marine Oil Spills Soumya Mukherjee, Ankit M. Kansara, Debasis Saha, Dr. Rajesh Gonnade, Dinesh Mullangi, Biplab Manna, Aamod V. Desai, Shridhar H. Thorat, Dr. Puyam S. Singh...
Chemistry Matters provides services that allow us to determine where contamination came from and when it was released into the environment using chemical fingerprinting and statistical data analysis. Some of the projects that benefit from environmental forensics include oil spills (PAHs, PHCs, petroleum...
Example situations where Chemistry Matters has been retained for environmental forensics investigations are listed below to demonstrate the range of situations; we have provided environmental forensics expertise. US Superfund sites Oil spills where substantial technical support is required, where oil may requ...
Offered in a single cell configuration, these instruments are designed with a sloping surface to shed spills and a washable sampling compartment for easy clean up. An intuitive touchscreen interface, local control software (no...
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is currently working on his research in Western Canada and has worked as a scientist on oil and chemical spills for over 30 years. His specialities include oil chemistry, spill dynamics and behaviour, spill treating agents, remote sensing and detection, and in-situ burning. Topics...