Modeling, Analysis, Control and Removal of Oil and Hydrocarbon Spills

Editor:Dr. Chaplina Tatiana, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, graduated from the Faculty of Physics at Lomonosov Moscow State University.She research interests are vortices, waves, impurities, mechanics of multiphase media, physical and mathematical modeling. She is the author of more than 250 works and holds three patents, and is the Director of Quaternion Publishing House.

• Introduction.- 1. General ecological problems of oil products spreading (with examples of catastrophic consequences).- 1.1 Environmental consequences of oil spills in the ocean.- 1.2 Assessment of economic damage resulting from accidental oil spills in offshore areas.- 1.3 Legal acts in the field of oil spill response.- 1.4 Monitoring of emergency oil spills and organization of measures to prevent and eliminate spills of oil and oil products.- 2. Overview of the main processes that determine the behavior of oil and oil products in the marine environment.- 3. General physical problems of modeling spreading processes.- 4. The most famous classical results of research on the problem.- 5. Theoretical model of oil products spreading over the water surface.- 5.1. Model of Axisymmetric Spreading of Hydrocarbons on the Water Surface.- 5.2. One-Dimensional Hydrocarbon Spreading Model.- 6. Laboratory experiments on the spreading of petroleum products.- 6.1. Axisymmetric spreading.- 6.2. One-dimensional spreading.- 6.3. Comparison with theoretical results.- 7. Theoretical model of oil product spreading in the subarctic and subantarctic zones.- 7.1. Spreading of hydrocarbons on the ice surface.- 7.2. Spreading of hydrocarbons under the ice surface.- 8. Modern model complexes for predicting the spread of oil spills in the sea.- 9. Determination of the content of oil products in water.- 10. Technologies and advanced methods for collecting oil spills.- 10.1 Review of existing methods and sorbents for the elimination of hydrocarbons from the water surface.- 10.2. Experimental studiesof the physical properties of various sorbents.- 10.3 Devices for collecting liquid hydrocarbons (oil, diesel fuel, etc.) from the surface of the water.- 10.4. Development of scientific foundations for new, efficient, low-cost technologies for cleaning the World Ocean from oil pollution.- Conclusions.- Literature.