The Sun’s Overlooked Impact on Oil Spills
2018年12月19日 · On sunny days, sunlight oxidizes oil into compounds that are only partially soluble in the solvent. This limits surfactants’ ability to break oil into droplets. (Natalie Renier, …
Dissolving oil in a sunlit sea - ScienceDaily
2022年2月16日 · But a team of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers have discovered that nearly 10 percent of the oil floating on the Gulf after the Deepwater Horizon …
Dissolving oil in a sunlit sea - Woods Hole Oceanographic …
2022年2月16日 · A team of WHOI researchers discovered that nearly 10 percent of the oil floating on the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon spill was dissolved into seawater by …
Why Sunlight Matters for Marine Oil Spills - Eos
2020年4月28日 · A decade of research since the Deepwater Horizon disaster has revealed how sunlight—its importance long understated in oil spill science—substantially alters petroleum …
Oil Spills - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2015年4月29日 · Exposure to both oil and sunlight can be harmful to sea anemones. Eight months after the M/V X-Press Pearl disaster in Sri Lanka, WHOI investigators talk about their …
Sunlight Can Help Dissolve Oil Into Seawater - SciTechDaily
2022年2月19日 · A slick of sunlight-altered oil floating on the Gulf of Mexico after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. A team of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researchers …
Dissolving oil in a sunlit sea - WHOI Tech Transfer
2022年4月18日 · “The amount of oil that was transformed by sunlight into compounds that dissolved in seawater during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill rivals that of commonly …
On sunlight, oxygen isotopes, and oil spills – Some Notes on ...
2019年11月12日 · Better understanding when and how quickly oil gets transformed by sunlight can help spill responders decide if applying dispersants in a given situation makes sense, or …
Sunlight reduces effectiveness of dispersants used in oil spills
2018年2月20日 · Two new studies have shown that sunlight transforms oil spills on the ocean surface more significantly and quickly than previously thought. The phenomenon considerably …
Sunlight helps clean up oil spills more than previously thought ...
2022年2月16日 · Sunlight may have helped remove as much as 17 percent of the oil slicking the surface of the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. That means that …