Ponisseril Somasundaran & Partha Patra 
Oil Spill Remediation [PDF ebook] 
Colloid Chemistry-Based Principles and Solutions

Foreword vii
Preface ix
Contributors xi
1 Science-Based Decision Making on the Use of Dispersants in the
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 1
Albert D. Venosa, Paul T. Anastas, Mace G. Barron, Robyn N.
Conmy, Marc S. Greenberg, and Gregory J. Wilson
2 Understanding and Properly Interpreting the 2010 Deepwater
Horizon Blowout 19
Sean S. Anderson, Charles H. Peterson, Gary Cherr, Richard
Ambrose, Shelly Anghera, Steve Bay, Michael J. Blum, Rob Condon,
Thomas Dean, William (Monty) Graham, Michael Guzy, Stephanie
Hampton, Samantha Joye, John Lambrinos, Bruce Mate, Douglas
Meffert, Sean Powers, Ponisseril Somasundaran, Robert Spies, Caz
Taylor, and Ronald Tjeerdema by Nceas Gulf Oil Spill Ecotox Working
Group
3 Remediation and Restoration of Northern Gulf of Mexico Coastal
Ecosystems Following the Deepwater Horizon Event 59
Michael J. Blum, Brittany M. Bernik, Thomas Azwell, and Eric
M.V. Hoek
4 Challenges in and Approaches to Modeling the Complexities of
Deepwater Oil and Gas Release 89
Rupesh K. Reddy, A. Rao, Z. Yu, C. Wu, K. Nandakumar, L.
Thibodeaux, and Kalliat T. Valsaraj
5 Oil Films: Some Basic Concepts 127
Johan Sjöblom and Sébastien Simon
6 Remediating Oilfield Waste and Spills 161
Raymond S. Farinato
7 Multipronged Approach for Oil Spill Remediation 175
Partha Patra and Ponisseril Somasundaran
8 Packed-Bed Capillary Microscopy on BP-Oil-Spill Oil in Porous
Media 189
Peixi Zhu, Qing Wang, Yuly A. Jaimes-Lizcano, and Kyriakos
Papadopoulos
9 Jameson Cell Technology for Organics Recovery 221
Graeme J. Jameson
10 Development of Gelling Agent for Spilled Oils 231
Kazutami Sakamoto
11 Microstructures of Capped Ethylene Oxide Oligomers in Water
and n-Hexane 247
Mangesh I. Chaudhari and Lawrence R. Pratt
12 Some Colloidal Fundamentals in Oil Spill Remediation: The
Water/Surfactant/Hydrocarbon Combination 259
S. E. Friberg, H. Hasinovic, and Pi Belobrov
13 Physicochemical Properties of Heavy Oil-Water Interface
in the Context of Oil Removal from Seawater by Froth Flotation
279
Louxiang Wang, Meghan Curran, Meijiao Deng, Qingxia Liu, Zhenghe
Xu, and Jacob Masliyah
14 Measurement of Interfacial Tension in
Hydrocarbon/Water/Dispersant Systems at Deepwater Conditions
295
Mohamed A. Abdelrahim and Dandina N. Rao
15 Surfactant Technologies for Remediation of Oil Spills
317
Edgar J. Acosta and Suniya Quraishi
16 Role of Structural Forces in Cleaning Soiled Surfaces
359
Darsh Wasan, Alex Nikolov, and Gopi Sethumadhavan
Index 371

Ponisseril Somasundaran, Ph D, is Chairman of the Henry Krumb School at Columbia University and is currently on the board of the new United Engineering Foundation. He has authored/edited fifteen books and over 700 scientific publications and patents.
Partha Patra, Ph D, is Research Scientist at Columbia University in New York. His research efforts focus on dealing with challenges associated with earth resource recovery and management, and development of engineering tools to promote usage of bioreagents in personal care, pharmaceuticals and food industries.
Raymond S. Farinato, Ph D, is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the In Process Separation department of Cytec Industries Inc. and an adjunct professor in the Earth & Environmental Engineering department at Columbia University.
Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Ph D, is Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. His capillary video-microscopy technique has been used in studies of dermal delivery of vaccines, oil-spill cleanup and improvement of engine lubricant oils.