Published 1996
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Miscellaneous
Shoreline oil cleanup, recovery and treatment evaluation system (SOCRATES)
- 1. National Environmental Technology Centre, Culham (United Kingdom)
- 2. BMT Marine Information Systems Ltd., Hampshire (United Kingdom)
Description
A beach cleanup computer system was developed to mitigate the impact of shoreline oiling. The program, entitled SOCRATES, was meant to determine the most suitable cleanup methodologies for a range of different spill scenarios. The development, operation and capabilities of SOCRATES was described, with recent examples of successful use during the Sea Empress spill. The factors which influenced decision making and which were central to the numerical solution were: (1) the volumetric removal rate of oil, (2) area removal rate of oil, (3) length of oil slick removed per hour, (4) volumetric removal rate of oily waste, (5) area of the oil slick, (6) length of the oil slick, (7) volume of liquid emulsion, and (8) length of beach. 14 figs
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Environment Canada.
- Imprint Place
- Ottawa, ON (Canada)
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the nineteenth arctic and marine oilspill program (AMOP) technical seminar
- Imprint Pagination
- 2 v.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1117-1129.
Conference
- Title
- 19. arctic and marine oilspill program technical seminar.
- Dates
- 12-14 Jun 1996.
- Place
- Calgary (Canada).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Canada
- Country of Input or Organization
- Canada
- INIS RN
- 28008072
- Subject category
- S02: PETROLEUM; S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- CLEANING; COMPUTER CODES; EMERGENCY PLANS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OIL SPILLS; SHORES; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER POLLUTION ABATEMENT
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; COASTAL REGIONS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EUROPE; POLLUTION ABATEMENT; WESTERN EUROPE