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Susceptibility to oil spill spreading using case studies and simulated scenarios
- Source :
- Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987). 267
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Fossil fuels still prevail over other energy sources in the world’s consumption energy matrix. Thus, oil transportation and operations over maritime routes have been in high demand for a long time. Although oil spill accidents caused by these activities have reduced significantly over the last few decades, they still cause great concern. From this perspective, this paper presents simulation analyses of oil spill case studies using TELEMAC-3D hydrodynamic model coupled with an oil model. Hence a location susceptible to such accidents was selected and three real oil spills were simulated, for each of which there were official technical monitoring reports available. The obtained results contribute to the knowledge of oil pollution susceptibility in environmentally sensitive areas, as well as provide information concerning oil slick behaviour. Additionally, similarities between the modelled results and the technical reports were confirmed. These findings are useful for contingency planning and responding to these probable accidents.
- Subjects :
- Energy-Generating Resources
Fossil Fuels
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Oil transportation
010501 environmental sciences
Toxicology
01 natural sciences
Environmental protection
Petroleum Pollution
Oil pollution
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Energy matrix
Probability
Consumption (economics)
Contingency plan
business.industry
Fossil fuel
General Medicine
Pollution
Oil spill
Hydrodynamics
Environmental science
TA170
business
Energy source
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18736424 and 02697491
- Volume :
- 267
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c8aecbfbc4f1624a35b31016a90c15a2