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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 Sjblom and Sbastien 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
