PREVENTION OF OIL SPILL POLLUTION IN SEAWATER USING LOCALLY AVAILABLE MATERIALS Nasser Al Hashar Dr Syed Anisuddin Tabassum Sadik Dr Sofia Tahseen Caledonian College of Engineering (A University College) 2322‚ CPO Seeb 111 SULTANATE OF OMAN anis_adil@hotmail.com A b s t r a c t Oil spill pollution‚ a severe environmental problem which persists in marine environment or in inland water across the world‚ has grown to an alarming magnitude with
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An oil spill can be defined as an accidental or deliberate dumping of oil or petroleum products into the ocean and its coastal waters‚ bays‚ and harbors‚ or onto land‚ or into rivers or lakes (Holum 1977). Between one and ten million metric tons (one metric ton is 1000 kilograms) of oil are put into the oceans every year. The oil is released‚ most often‚ in small yet consistent doses from tankers‚ industry‚ or on shore waste disposal (Boesh‚ Hersher‚ et al. 1974). Tanker spills cost the United
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The BP Oil Spill “Thank God men cannot fly and lay waste to sky‚ as well as the earth‚” said Henry David Thoreau on environmental damage. The BP‚ or British Petroleum‚ Gulf oil spill has been widely referred to as the biggest environmental disaster that the United States has ever faced‚ with over four million gallons of oil pouring into the waters off the Mexican Gulf Coast. The BP oil spill occurred in April of 2010. It was‚ and still is‚ the biggest oil spill in all of U.S. history. The massive
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Louisiana coast has experienced countless oil spills but unlike those BP’s oil spewed directly from the bottom of the ocean. It is difficult to accurately determine the complete extent of the damage caused by the oil spill because data on the condition of the environment in that area before the disaster is lacking. Even now the effect on organisms such as those in deep-water marine communities is hard to determine. But one thing is certain; the oil spill impacted every level of the complex environment
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Questions: What are the environmental implications of oil spills? What legislative policies have been instituted to mitigate the possibility of future oil spills? How are oil spills cleaned up and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each method? What type of research and innovation surrounding oil spills has been done to prevent their occurrence? In order to foster an environment for emerging technologies and higher standards of living‚ the United States‚ Canada and many other nations
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Oil is a product used by everyone‚ but sometimes oil is a problem. An oil spill is a leakage from an oceangoing tanker‚ pipelines‚ or other oil sources. Oil spills occur very frequently‚ and cause enormous ecological harm. About eight million barrels of oil are spilled each year. Tankers usually carry about five hundred million barrels of oil. Many oil spills‚ large in land or ocean coverage‚ have had major impacts on the earth and it’s inhabitants. Many animals die and some are injured in some way
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BP OIL SPILL IN 2010 April 20th was a tragic day for BP and the crew of the Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon. “Floating fifty-two miles off the coast of Louisiana in 5‚000 feet of water was an oil rig drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.” (Hoffman‚ 2010) What unfolded next will go down in history as the worst accidental oil spill in the world. “The oil well a mile below the surface of the Gulf blew up from high-pressure methane gas expanding into the drill. As a result of the explosion‚ it ended
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BP Oil Spill Chait‚ J‚ (2010). Dear Leader. New Republic‚ 241(10)‚ 2-2. Retrieve June 21‚ 2010‚ from Academic Search Premier. This article discusses the present oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The president’s has not changed the Minerals Management Service. In reality‚ the federal government has no agency tasked with capping undersea oil leaks. All the necessary equipment‚ along with the expertise for operating it‚ resides with the private sector. BP will likely bear the full cost of the spill;
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Humans cause oil pollution. We put the boats and ships in the water‚ we build oil rigs and drill into the bottom of the ocean‚ and we dump the wrong chemicals into the ocean. Boats and ships have oil leaks just like our cars do. When we’re in the ocean‚ we can’t exactly clean it up with some limestone. If an oil pipe breaks‚ we can’t stop push a button and it stops flowing. The oil is coming from underneath the ocean so it takes us longer to stop it from flowing into the ocean. Some people don’t
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beginning of the largest‚most disastrous oil spill in the United States had begun. The oil leak was caused by an explosion that happened at approximately 10:00 p.m‚killing eleven people and injuring seventeen others. Two days later‚ the rig sank and started to leak oil and gas from the well. After about three months of the well (Macondo) leaking oil‚ it finally got capped off on July 15. Within those three months‚ the well had leaked 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The leak did not
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