Quantifying the effects of sunlight on the fate of oil spilled at sea

Oil spilled at sea is transformed by sunlight-driven photochemical reactions. The transformed oil has different properties and behavior in the environment compared to the fresh oil, resulting in different fates and effects. My work in this thesis was to put numbers on these changes, with the goal of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freeman, Danielle Haas
Other Authors: Ward, Collin P.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/157736