An Overview of Oil-Mineral-Aggregate Formation, Settling, and Transport Processes in Marine Oil Spill Models
An oil spill is considered one of the most serious polluting disasters for a marine environment. When oil is spilled into a marine environment, it is dispersed into the water column as oil droplets which often interact with suspended particles to form oil-mineral-aggregate (OMA). Knowing how OMA for...
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| description | An oil spill is considered one of the most serious polluting disasters for a marine environment. When oil is spilled into a marine environment, it is dispersed into the water column as oil droplets which often interact with suspended particles to form oil-mineral-aggregate (OMA). Knowing how OMA form, settle, and are transported is critical to oil spill modelling which can determine the fate and mass balance of the spilled volumes. This review introduces oil weathering and movement, and the commonly used numerical models that oil spill specialists use to determine how a spill will evolve. We conduct in-depth reviews of the environmental factors that influence how OMA form and their settling velocity, and we review how OMA formation and transport are modelled. We point out the existing gaps in current knowledge and the challenges of studying OMA. Such challenges include having to systematically conduct laboratory experiments to investigate how the environment affects OMA formation and settling velocities, and the need for a comprehensive algorithm that can estimate an OMA settling velocity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-431caa09dace463892fc2cbdd7ffa5732023-11-23T11:39:12ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122022-04-0110561010.3390/jmse10050610An Overview of Oil-Mineral-Aggregate Formation, Settling, and Transport Processes in Marine Oil Spill ModelsXiaomei Zhong0Haibo Niu1Pu Li2Yongsheng Wu3Lei Liu4Department of Civil and Resource Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, CanadaDepartment of Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University, Truro, NS B2N 5E3, CanadaSchool of Marine Science, Sun Yat-Sen University (Zhuhai Campus), Zhuhai 519082, ChinaOcean and Ecosystem Science Division, Fisheries and Ocean Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 4A2, CanadaDepartment of Civil and Resource Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, CanadaAn oil spill is considered one of the most serious polluting disasters for a marine environment. When oil is spilled into a marine environment, it is dispersed into the water column as oil droplets which often interact with suspended particles to form oil-mineral-aggregate (OMA). Knowing how OMA form, settle, and are transported is critical to oil spill modelling which can determine the fate and mass balance of the spilled volumes. This review introduces oil weathering and movement, and the commonly used numerical models that oil spill specialists use to determine how a spill will evolve. We conduct in-depth reviews of the environmental factors that influence how OMA form and their settling velocity, and we review how OMA formation and transport are modelled. We point out the existing gaps in current knowledge and the challenges of studying OMA. Such challenges include having to systematically conduct laboratory experiments to investigate how the environment affects OMA formation and settling velocities, and the need for a comprehensive algorithm that can estimate an OMA settling velocity.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/10/5/610oil-mineral-aggregate (OMA)oil spill modellingOMA settling velocityOMA transport modelling |
| spellingShingle | Xiaomei Zhong Haibo Niu Pu Li Yongsheng Wu Lei Liu An Overview of Oil-Mineral-Aggregate Formation, Settling, and Transport Processes in Marine Oil Spill Models Journal of Marine Science and Engineering oil-mineral-aggregate (OMA) oil spill modelling OMA settling velocity OMA transport modelling |
| title | An Overview of Oil-Mineral-Aggregate Formation, Settling, and Transport Processes in Marine Oil Spill Models |
| title_full | An Overview of Oil-Mineral-Aggregate Formation, Settling, and Transport Processes in Marine Oil Spill Models |
| title_fullStr | An Overview of Oil-Mineral-Aggregate Formation, Settling, and Transport Processes in Marine Oil Spill Models |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Overview of Oil-Mineral-Aggregate Formation, Settling, and Transport Processes in Marine Oil Spill Models |
| title_short | An Overview of Oil-Mineral-Aggregate Formation, Settling, and Transport Processes in Marine Oil Spill Models |
| title_sort | overview of oil mineral aggregate formation settling and transport processes in marine oil spill models |
| topic | oil-mineral-aggregate (OMA) oil spill modelling OMA settling velocity OMA transport modelling |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/10/5/610 |
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