Ponisseril Somasundaran, PhD, is Chairman of the Henry Krumb School 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, isResearch 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.

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• Foreword viiPreface ixContributors xi1 Science-Based Decision Making on the Use of Dispersants in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 1Albert D. Venosa, Paul T. Anastas, Mace G. Barron, Robyn N. Conmy, Marc S. Greenberg, and Gregory J. Wilson2 Understanding and Properly Interpreting the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Blowout 19Sean S. Anderson, Charles H. Peterson, Gary Cherr, Richard Ambrose, Shelly Anghera, Steve Bay, Michael J. Blum, Rob Condon, Thomas Dean, William (Monty) Graham, Michael Guzy, Stephanie Hampton, Samantha Joye, John Lambrinos, Bruce Mate, Douglas Meffert, Sean Powers, Ponisseril Somasundaran, Robert Spies, Caz Taylor, and Ronald Tjeerdema by Nceas Gulf Oil Spill Ecotox Working Group3 Remediation and Restoration of Northern Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ecosystems Following the Deepwater Horizon Event 59Michael J. Blum, Brittany M. Bernik, Thomas Azwell, and Eric M.V. Hoek4 Challenges in and Approaches to Modeling the Complexities of Deepwater Oil and Gas Release 89Rupesh K. Reddy, A. Rao, Z. Yu, C. Wu, K. Nandakumar, L. Thibodeaux, and Kalliat T. Valsaraj5 Oil Films: Some Basic Concepts 127Johan Sjöblom and Sébastien Simon6 Remediating Oilfield Waste and Spills 161Raymond S. Farinato7 Multipronged Approach for Oil Spill Remediation 175Partha Patra and Ponisseril Somasundaran8 Packed-Bed Capillary Microscopy on BP-Oil-Spill Oil in Porous Media 189Peixi Zhu, Qing Wang, Yuly A. Jaimes-Lizcano, and Kyriakos Papadopoulos9 Jameson Cell Technology for Organics Recovery 221Graeme J. Jameson10 Development of Gelling Agent for Spilled Oils 231Kazutami Sakamoto11 Microstructures of Capped Ethylene Oxide Oligomers in Water and n-Hexane 247Mangesh I. Chaudhari and Lawrence R. Pratt12 Some Colloidal Fundamentals in Oil Spill Remediation: The Water/Surfactant/Hydrocarbon Combination 259S. E. Friberg, H. Hasinovic, and Pi Belobrov13 Physicochemical Properties of Heavy Oil–Water Interface in the Context of Oil Removal from Seawater by Froth Flotation 279Louxiang Wang, Meghan Curran, Meijiao Deng, Qingxia Liu, Zhenghe Xu, and Jacob Masliyah14 Measurement of Interfacial Tension in Hydrocarbon/Water/Dispersant Systems at Deepwater Conditions 295Mohamed A. Abdelrahim and Dandina N. Rao15 Surfactant Technologies for Remediation of Oil Spills 317Edgar J. Acosta and Suniya Quraishi16 Role of Structural Forces in Cleaning Soiled Surfaces 359Darsh Wasan, Alex Nikolov, and Gopi SethumadhavanIndex 371