Spreading and Retraction of Spilled Crude Oil on Seawater

摘要: ABSTRACT Oil-spills due to release of crude oil from tankers, offshore platforms, drilling rigs, and wells, other products such as diesel bunker fuel, if uncontrolled, may have serious sometimes long term environmental impact. This paper presents a method for reducing the areal coverage spilled at sea or over aqueous surfaces. The can be used contain more efficiently during after placement booms. surface tension seawater causes rapid spreading large distances. However, instantly reversed by means minimal quantities surfactant. A low concentration water-soluble surfactant, non-ionic surfactant with critical micelle concentration, is recommended maximum effectiveness least amount controlled continuously deployed inner-wall boom. caused to...