Oil spill remediation : colloid chemistry-based principles and solutions

This book provides a comprehensive overview of oil spill remediation from the perspectives of policy makers, scientists, and engineers, generally focusing on colloid chemistry phenomena and solutions involved in oil spills and their cleanup.
* First book to address oil spill remediation from the perspective of physicochemical and colloidal science
* Discusses current and emerging detergents used in clean-ups
* Includes chapters from leading scientists, researchers, engineers, and policy makers
* Presents new insights into the possible impact of oil spills on ecosystems as well as preventive measures

Author Notes

Ponisseril Somasundaran, PhD, is Director of the Langmuir Center for Colloids and Interfaces 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, is Research 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.

Albert D. Venosa and Paul T. Anastas and Mace G. Barron and Robyn N. Conmy and Marc S. Greenberg and Gregory J. WilsonSean S. Anderson and Charles H. Peterson and Gary Chen and Richard Ambrose and Shelly Anghera and Steve Bay and Michael J. Blum and Rob Condon and Thomas Dean and William (Monty) Graham and Michael Guzy and Stephanie Hampton and Samantha Joye and John Lambrinos and Bruce Mate and Douglas Meffert and Sean Powers and Ponisseril Somasundaran and Robert Spies and Caz Taylor and Ronald Tjeerdema by NCEAS Gulf Oil Spill Eco Tox Working GroupMichael J. Blum and Brittany M. Bernik and Thomas Azwell and Eric M.V. HockRupesh K. Reddy and A. Rao and Z. Yn and C. Wu and K. Nandakumar and L. Thibodeaux and Kallial T. VaisarajJohan Sjöblom and Sébastian SimonRaymond S. FarinatoPartha Patra and Ponisseril SomasundaranPeixi Zhu and Qing Wang and Yuly A. Jaimes-Lizcano and Kyriakos PapadopoulosGraeme J. JamesonKazutami SakamotoMangesh I. Chaudhari and Lawrence R. PrattS. E. Friberg and H. Hasinovic and Pi BelobrovLouxiang Wang and Meghan Curran and Meijiao Deng and Qingxia Liu and Zhenghe Xu and Jacob MasliyahMohamed A. Abdehahmi and Dandina N. RaoEdgar J. Acosta and Suniya QuraishiDarsh Wasan and Alex Nikolov and Gopi Sethumadhavan

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
1 Science-Based Decision Making on the Use of Dispersants in the Deep water Horizon Oil Spill	p. 1
2 Understanding and Properly Interpreting the 2010 Deep water Horizon Blowout	p. 19
3 Remediation and Restoration of Northern Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ecosystems Following the Deepwater Horizon Event	p. 59
4 Challenges in and Approaches to Modeling the Complexities of Deepwater Oil and Gas Release	p. 89
5 Oil Films: Some Basic Concepts	p. 127
6 Remediating Oilfield Waste and Spills	p. 161
7 Multipronged Approach for Oil Spill Remediation	p. 175
8 Packed-Bed Capillary Microscopy on BP-Oil-Spill Oil in Porous Media	p. 189
9 Jameson Cell Technology for Organics Recovery	p. 221
10 Development of Gelling Agent for Spilled Oils	p. 231
11 Microstructures of Capped Ethylene Oxide Oligomers in Water and N-Hexane	p. 247
12 Some Colloidal Fundamentals in Oil Spill Remediation: The Water/Surfactant/Hydrocarbon Combination	p. 259
13 Physicochemical Properties of Heavy Oil-Water Interface in the Context of Oil Removal from Seawater by Froth Flotation	p. 279
14 Measurement of Interfacial Tension in Hydrocarbon/Water/Dispersant Systems at Deepwater Conditions	p. 295
15 Surfactant Technologies for Remediation of Oil Spills	p. 317
16 Role of Structural Forces in Cleaning Soiled Surfaces	p. 359
Index	p. 371

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