- Author
- Evans, D. D.
- Title
- Combustion of Oil Spills on Water.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- U.S. Department of the Interior. Technology Assessment and Research Program for Offshore Minerals Operations. OCS Study MMS-86-0083. 1986 Report, Gregory, J. B. and Smith, C. E., Editors, 34-46 p., 1986
- Keywords
- oil spills | combustion | water
- Identifiers
- broken ice fields; National Oil Spill Response Test Facility
- Abstract
- In 1985, the Center for Fire Research (CFR) at the U. S. National Bureau of Standards (NBS) began studies of oil spill combustion. This work seeks to understand the process of oil spill combusiton on open waters and in water filled channels formed in broken ice. It is intended to be a cooperative effort leading to results that may be used to generalize specific measurements of oil spill burn efficiency performed by Smith and Diaz (1085) at the EPA-OHMSETT facility in Leonardo, NJ.