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Majid D. Farahani and Ying Zheng
Oil spills in open waters pose a significant threat to marine life. The application of dispersant as an oil-spill response is a promising approach to minimize the environmental burden caused by these accidental events. Dispersants have been accepted and ...
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Xishan Li, Yuhang Zou, Hao Xuan, Wei Yang, Guoxiang Liao, Chengyan Wang and Deqi Xiong
Currently, oil spill pollution is one of the major environmental concerns for sea cucumber (Apostichopus japonicus) aquaculture. During oil spills, spraying chemical dispersants is generally considered an efficient oil spill response. However, the impact...
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Kai Ziervogel, Manoj Kamalanathan and Antonietta Quigg
Biological oil weathering facilitated by specialized heterotrophic microbial communities plays a key role in the fate of petroleum hydrocarbon in the ocean. The most common methods of assessing oil biodegradation involve (i) measuring changes in the comp...
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Petar Kekovic, Margarida Borges, Nuno Torres Faria and Frederico Castelo Ferreira
Mannosylerythritol lipids (MELs) are a group of biosurfactants with a wide range of potential applications, due to their excellent tensioactive properties, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. One of the envisioned uses for MELs is in bioremediation i...
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Nadiia Sokolenko,Yevgeniy Popov,Kateryna Fastovetska
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The object of this study is a technology of the new surface-active substances (SAS) based on sulfomethylated phenol. The study's aim was to improve the technology by a catalytic method, implying the development of industrial schemes for the synthesis pro...
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Xishan Li, Guoxiang Liao, Zhonglei Ju, Chengyan Wang, Nan Li, Deqi Xiong and Yulu Zhang
Sea cucumber (Apostichopus japonicus) is mainly cultured in the coastal zone, where it is easily threatened by accidental oil spills. Chemical dispersant is one of the efficient oil spill responses for mitigating the overall environmental damage of oil s...
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Saskia Rughöft, Anjela L. Vogel, Samantha B. Joye, Tony Gutierrez and Sara Kleindienst
During marine oil spills, chemical dispersants are used routinely to disperse surface slicks, transferring the hydrocarbon constituents of oil into the aqueous phase. Nonetheless, a comprehensive understanding of how dispersants affect natural population...
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Sara M. Garcia, Kevin T. Du Clos, Olivia H. Hawkins and Brad J. Gemmell
The eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica is an ecologically and economically important species that is vulnerable to oil pollution. We assessed sublethal effects of soluble fractions of crude oil alone (WAF) and crude oil in combination with Corexit 9500...
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Yali Gao, Deqi Xiong, Zhixin Qi, Xishan Li, Zhonglei Ju and Xueqiang Zhuang
The formation of sunken oils is mainly dominated by the interaction between spilled oils and sediments. Due to their patchiness and invisibility, cleaning operations become difficult. As a result, sunken oils may cause long-term and significant damage to...
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Thomas King, Brian Robinson, Scott Ryan, Kenneth Lee, Michel Boufadel and Jason Clyburne
This study examines the use of chemical dispersant to treat an oil spill after the initial release. The natural and chemically enhanced dispersion of four oil products (dilbit, dilynbit, synbit and conventional crude) were investigated in a wave tank. Ex...
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