SPREADING OF CRUDE OIL SPILLS ACROSS A LAKE

The spreading of two different crude oils on the surface of lakes in the Mackenzie River delta region near Inuvik, N. W. T. , Canada was examined. The crude oils spread with a velocity of 3 to 16% of the wind velocity of 5.2 km/h. For one of the crude oils studied, a surface-active slick moved ahead of the bulk oil front. For both crude oil samples, compositional changes from center to edge of the bulk of the oil slick could reasonably be accounted for by evaporation only.

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  Reidel (D) Publishing Company

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  Dordrecht,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Phillips, C R
  • Groseva, V M
• Publication Date: 1977-8

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 353-360
• Serial:
  • Water, Air & Soil Pollution
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • ISSN: 0049-6979

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Dynamics; Evaporation; Lakes; Oil spills; Water pollution
• Old TRIS Terms: Oil evaporation; Oil spill behavior; Oil spreading dynamics
• Subject Areas: Environment; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00173141
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 26 1978 12:00AM