WIT Press


Estimating Rates Of Oil Spills In The Egyptian Ports And Application Of The Technology Of "windows-of-opportunity" In Combating

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

33

Pages

9

Published

1999

Size

921 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/WP990521

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

M. Bayoumi & G. Ghalwash

Abstract

By analyzing samples of water of the Egyptian ports, an indication of a daily oil flow has been proved to be added from different sources like ships, motor boats, barges, reception facilities, shipyards and run off from keys and terminals. The physical and chemical properties of oil develop with time when exposed to weather elements and sea actions so that the new developed characteristics of oil residuals could be completely different from the original oil. The rate of progress of the physical and chemical changes depends upon oil type and weather conditions. One of the important problems is to estimate

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