Environmental Risk Assessment of Oil Spills
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Pollution Prevention, Mitigation and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2023) | Viewed by 2052
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Dear Colleagues,
The accidental release of oil over the last decades has resulted in prolonged pollution of the marine and terrestrial environment. Spills of crude oil or oil-distilled products (e.g., gasoline, diesel fuels, jet fuels, kerosene, Stoddard solvent, hydraulic oils, lubricating oils) occur during various activities including oil drilling, refining, transportation, and storage, which threatens millions of miles of coastline, river systems, lakes, and terrestrial habitat worldwide. The majority of oil compounds such as various individual hydrocarbons are highly toxic and pose a significant problem to the environment.
These hydrocarbons are made exclusively from carbon and hydrogen atoms, which bind together in various ways, resulting in paraffins (or normal alkanes), isoparaffins (isoalkanes), aromatics (e.g., benzene or various PAHs), cycloalkanes, and unsaturated alkanes (e.g., alkenes and alkynes). Other individual compounds that are present in crude oil and oil discharges include sulfur, nitrogen, and/or oxygen atoms. Upon their release into the environment, the fate and transport of these toxic compounds is a very complicated process, which is governed by spreading, evaporation, emulsification, dispersion, advection, photo-oxidation, biodegradation, dissolution, encapsulation, and sedimentation. These processes are a major health concern, as they can cause severe health problems, including heart damage, stunted growth, immune system effects, and even death.
This Special Issue aims to highlight advances in the development of oil spill management, which include, but is not limited to, oil spill detection, characterization, and monitoring; data acquisition for a spill area; response selection and process optimization; toxicity assessment protocols; numerical modelling of oil fate and transport, environmental risk assessment models, and oil clean-up technologies. Original research articles and reviews are welcomed.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Guozhong Wu
Dr. Ee Von Lau
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oil spill detection and characterization
- fate and transport of spilled oil
- environmental risk assessment of oil spill
- sustainable remediation technology for oil contamination
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