- Author
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Evans, D. D.
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Tennyson, E. J.
- Title
- In-Situ Burning: A Promising Oil Spill Response Strategy.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Minerals Management Service, Herndon, VA
- Book or Conf
- Coastal and Ocean Management, 7th Symposium. July 8-12, 1991,
Long Beach, CA,
1-18 p.,
1991
- Keywords
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oil spills
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in situ combustion
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response time
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in situ burning
- Abstract
- In 1984 the Minerals Management Service began to investigate limiting conditions for burning spilled oil in-situ on the open ocean through a multiphase research program to understand the important aspects of in-situ burning as a response strategy. The first phase of this research program was an investigation to quantify the airborne pollutants resulting from the burning of various oils and to model the major features of the smoke plume flow. This laboratory study was conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Scaling of the results from the NIST laboratory results was examined in meso-scale spill burns up to 15 m square. Although in-situ burning has limitations, as do other oil spill response strategies, it shows promise for many of the conditions occurring in accidential spills.