Oil Pollution

Oil pollution monitoring by SAR imagery

Russia is the first world gas producer and the second for oil. Its reserves of hydrocarbons are primarily located in the Russian North where permafrost is often present. Large oil spills occur in this area. The pipelines are subject to corrosion and cryogenic processes. The risk of rupture increases consequently. The oil spill monitoring is limited by the vastness and the frequent inaccessibili...

Lubricating Oil Pollution Detection Sensor Design

Metal abrasive particle content in lubricating oil is an important index to judge the degree of deterioration of lubricating oil. Established a spiral electrode capacitance sensor by the finite element software ANSYS, the simulation result shows that the sensor is sensitive to the content of metal abrasive particle in lubricating oil, not affect by the metal abrasive particle itself. According ...

Oil-Spill Pollution Remote Sensing by Synthetic Aperture Radar

Chronic oil pollution harms Magellanic penguins in the Southwest Atlantic.

Petroleum pollution is a problem for seabirds along the Southwest Atlantic coast. Twenty-five groups from Salvador, Brazil (12 degrees 58'S) to San Antonio Oeste, Argentina (40 degrees 43'S) survey or rehabilitate sick or oiled seabirds. Four groups, one each in Brazil and Uruguay, and two in Argentina, kept counts of birds found alive and in need of rehabilitation. An average of 63.7% of the s...

Skou : Radiometry for Oil Pollution Monitoring , Measurements , and Systems

Work is presently carried out in Europe to change the status of the microwave radiometer, namely, to develop it from a research instrument to an operational instrument-especially for measuring oil pollution on the sea surface. The Technical University of Denmark (TUD), with its long experience in airborne microwave radiometry, is heavily involved in this process. The TUD multichannel imaging ra...