An Overview of Oil-Mineral-Aggregate Formation, Settling, and Transport Processes in Marine Oil Spill Models

An oil spill is considered one of the most serious polluting disasters for a marine environment. When spilled into environment, it dispersed water column as droplets which often interact with suspended particles to form oil-mineral-aggregate (OMA). Knowing how OMA form, settle, and are transported critical modelling can determine fate mass balance volumes. This review introduces weathering movement, commonly used numerical models that specialists use will evolve. We conduct in-depth reviews environmental factors influence their settling velocity, we formation transport modelled. point out existing gaps in current knowledge challenges studying OMA. Such include having systematically laboratory experiments investigate environment affects velocities, need comprehensive algorithm estimate an velocity.