- Author
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Evans, D. D.
- Title
- In-Situ Burning of Oil Spills.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NIST SP 762; NIST SP 995; Volume 2,
April 1989; March 2003,
- Distribution
- Available from Government Printing Office
- Book or Conf
- Minerals Management Service, U.S. Department of Interior. Alaska Arctic Offshore Oil Spill Response Technology. Workshop Proceedings. November 29-December 1, 1988,
Anchorage, AK,
Jason, N. H., Editors,
47-95 p.,
['1989', '2003']
- Keywords
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oil spills
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containment
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in situ burning
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recovery
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ignition
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bibliographies
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case studies
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flame spread
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residues
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response time
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tests
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crude oil
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water
- Identifiers
- ice; sea water; igniter devices
- Abstract
- Response to oil spills, regardless of location, includes considerations of oil containment, recovery, disposal and the logistics of delivering response equipment. In Arctic waters changing ice conditions during freeze-up to solid ice cover and the reverse process of ice break-up provide an extreme range of conditions for operation of oil spill response equipment. In general, the logistics of equipment movement and the efficiency of oil recovery and disposal varies substantially for response techniques and equipment as the percentage of ice-cover in the water changes.