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What You Need to Know About Bioremediation of Oil Spills
Environmental pollution caused by petrochemical products is increasing day by day. An oil spill can contaminate both land and water. When oil is pumped from the ground, refined, and transported, spills may occur from oil well heads, drill rigs, tankers, pipelines, and storage tanks. Terrestrial oil spills may also occur due to railway or oil tanker accidents, collision of barges and tankers, and sometimes even naturally due to the seepage of natural oil deposits. Oil spills into water bodies are mainly caused by irresponsible human action, which leads to accidents involving tankers, barges, pipelines, refineries, and storage facilities. Other incidents like natural underground leakage, natural disasters, deliberate terrorist acts, or illegal dumpers may also trigger oil spills.
Terrestrial oil spills and marine oil spills have a disastrous impact on the ecosystem and biodiversity. Oil spills on land leads to contamination of soil that eventually mixes with the groundwater, making it unfit to consume. Oil spills at sea lead to the rapid spread of oil, which aggregates in the form of emulsified droplets, petroleum lumps, and tar balls. These effects have been observed in open and coastal waters as well as on beaches. The spilled oil forms aggregates that appear to be light gray, brown, or black sticky lumps, and they range in size from 1 millimeter to 10 centimeters.
A Closer Look at Bioremediation
Different types of environmental remediation methods are used to eliminate oil contamination. Based on the site of degradation, the bioremediation technique is classified as in situ or ex situ. An in situ bioremediation method involves the treatment of the polluted area at the site of the oil contamination. On the other hand, ex situ bioremediation involves the removal of contaminated material and its subsequent treatment elsewhere.
The term bioremediation is derived from the root word bio, which refers to life, and remediation, which stands for a remedy or a solution. The process of bioremediation involves the action of microorganisms or biological agents to accelerate the degradation of polluted soil or water. When plants are used to clean up a polluted environment, it is referred to as phytoremediation.
Oil Spill Cleanup Procedures
There are various steps taken to clean up oil spills. Here is how some of them work:
• Bioremediation of oil spills involves microorganisms like bacteria or fungi. These microbes hasten the process of natural degradation.
• Containment of oil spills with booms prevents oil spills from spreading in water. These buoyant materials act as a floating barricade. The use of booms is followed by the use of skimmers. Skimmers are boats that skim spilled oil from the water. Booms and skimmers are not very effective in windy seas and oceans.
• Big sponges, or sorbents, can be used to absorb oil spills.
• Dispersants cluster around oil globules and mobilize them.
• To get rid of freshly spilled oil, controlled incineration is sometimes carried out. This process is called in-situ burning.
When the oil spill reaches the shore, the oil spill cleanup process involves the use of high-pressure or low-pressure hoses to wash off the oil from the beach. The spilled oil can also be sucked off the water surface using vacuum trucks.
Oil Gone Easy
Green cleaning products from Oil Gone Easy completely break down tough oil spills by bioremediation. Oil Gone Easy offers two oil spill cleanup products, Home & Driveway S-200 and Marine S-200 to get rid of oil contamination. These biodegradable green cleaning products do not contain any toxic chemicals. Instead, they are natural agents that will stimulate the rapid multiplication of natural, oil degrading microorganisms to facilitate the removal of tough stains.
Home & Driveway S-200 helps remove oil stains from your home and driveway. This oil stain remover is capable of removing oil stains from garages, lawns, and concrete. Marine S-200 is a bilge cleaner that cleans bilge water that is contaminated with engine oil or other lubricants from a boat. Both products do not harm the environment in any way while they degrade oil and fuel on land or in the water.
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If an oil tanker can carry 40 million gallons of oil can it carry 40 million gallons of water?
No it cannot. Since gallons are measurements of volume and not mass we are going to have to calculate this. Assuming this oil tanker is designed to carry no more than a certain weight, let's calculate that by multiplying 40 million gallons by the amount 1 gallon of oil weighs which is approximately 3.4 kilograms. The answer turns out to be 136 million kilograms. So the oil tanker can carry 136 million kilograms of any liquid. So we need to figure out how much a gallon of water weighs 3.79 kg. That turns out to be about 151 million kilograms. So the answer is no an oil tanker that can carry 40 million gallons of oil cannot carry 40 million gallons of water. Here is the sites where I got the approximations for the gallons of oil,http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question58937.html , and the gallon of water, http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_does_one_gallon_of_water_weigh.