In situ burning via towed boom of oil spilled at sea
| Autor: | Jay Mitchell, Francis E. Fendell, George F. Carrier |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
| Předmět: |
Petroleum engineering
Environmental remediation business.industry General Chemical Engineering Evaporation rate Evaporation General Physics and Astronomy Energy Engineering and Power Technology General Chemistry Combustion Boom chemistry.chemical_compound Fuel Technology Petroleum product chemistry Oil film Petroleum Environmental science business |
| Zdroj: | Combustion and Flame. 90:295-306 |
| ISSN: | 0010-2180 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0010-2180(92)90091-3 |
| Popis: | Operational guidance for the efficient use of combustion in the cleanup of a surface oil film, formed as a result of a spill at sea, is sought by approximate analysis. In remediation by burning, the spilled oil itself provides the energy for its cleanup. Attention is focused on situations holding relative ly far from the source of the spill and/or relatively long after the spill: the oil is taken to have so dispersed that the thickness of the film is on the order of a few millimeters. Under such conditions, the oil film is unlikely to burn without the use of multiple towed booms, each boom spreading its already-ignited, localized fire to continuously collected, previously unignited portions of the oil film. A simple, quasisteady, two-dimensional analysis suggests efficient values for the tow speed and the tow-line length as functions of such parameters as the oil density, oil-film thickness, oil burn/evaporation rate, etc. The analysis leads to specific suggestions for apparently unreported laboratory experiments that may be informative prior to at-sea operation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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