Oil Spill Occurrence, Simulation, and Behavior

M.R. Riazi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

2024
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-0-367-74256-0 (ISBN)

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Bringing together a wide range of topics, this work offers practical insight into oil spill occurence, behavior, and simluation for professionals and academics in environmental organizations and government, shipping and marine industry, and offshore production.

Oil Spill Occurrence, Simulation, and Behavior provides practical insight into oil spills and their causes, impacts, response and cleanup methods, simple and advanced modeling of oil spill behavior, and oil spill simulation techniques.

Discusses various sources of oil spills and major accidents

Includes case studies on the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, including environmental, economic, and political impacts, modeling and behavior as well as response and cleanup methods

Introduces some commercial softwares on predicting oil movement and spreading on water

Describes properties and characteristics of crude oil and its products needed for simulation and prediction of behavior of an oil slick

Written as an applied book with minimal math and theory, making it accessible to a wide range of readers

The book includes more than 100 unique and informative images in color

This essential book is aimed at professionals, academics, and scientists in the fields of chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, environmental engineering, marine and ocean engineering working on the simulation and modeling, mitigation, and prevention of oil spills.

Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Characteristics and Properties of Crude Oil and Its Products. 3. Sources and Causes of Oil Spills. 4. Major Oil Spills: Occurrence and Their Impacts. 5. Environmental, Economic and Political Impacts: Case of BP Oil Spill. 6. Oil Spill Response and Cleanup Methods – Case of BP Oil Spill. 7. A Simple Model to Predict Rate of Oil Spill Disappearance. 8. Advanced Modeling and Simulation Techniques. 9. Economic and Financial Impacts of Oil Spills.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Fuels and Petrochemicals
Zusatzinfo	39 Tables, black and white; 100 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Technische Chemie
	Technik ► Bergbau
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	0-367-74256-X / 036774256X
ISBN-13	978-0-367-74256-0 / 9780367742560
Zustand	Neuware