Progress in operational modeling in support of oil spill response

CH Barker, VH Kourafalou, CJ Beegle-Krause… - Journal of marine …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident of a massive blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico,
scientists from government, industry, and academia collaborated to advance oil spill …

How the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill reshaped our understanding of crude oil photochemical weathering at sea: a past, present, and future perspective

CP Ward, EB Overton - Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The weathering of crude oil at sea has been researched for nearly half a century. However,
there have been relatively few opportunities to validate laboratory-based predictions about …

Advances in asphaltene petroleomics. Part 4. Compositional trends of solubility subfractions reveal that polyfunctional oxygen-containing compounds drive …

ML Chacón-Patiño, DF Smith, CL Hendrickson… - Energy & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Asphaltenes have traditionally been conceived as highly aromatic, alkyl-deficient
compounds enriched in pericondensed aromatic “island” motifs. This structural definition …

Oil irradiation experiments document changes in oil properties, molecular composition, and dispersant effectiveness associated with oil photo-oxidation

C Aeppli, DA Mitchell, P Keyes, EC Beirne… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
While chemical dispersants are a powerful tool for treating spilled oil, their effectiveness can
be limited by oil weathering processes such as evaporation and emulsification. It has been …

Lessons learned from a decade-long assessment of asphaltenes by ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry and implications for complex mixture analysis

ML Chacon-Patino, MR Gray, C Rüger… - Energy & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in instrumentation for high-field Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance
mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) have enabled access to∼ 70 000 unique molecular …

The first decade of scientific insights from the Deepwater Horizon oil release

EB Kujawinski, CM Reddy, RP Rodgers… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster remains the largest single accidental release
of oil and gas into the ocean. During the 87-day release, scientists used oceanographic …

Petroleomics Approach to Investigate the Composition of Upgrading Products from Pyrolysis Bio-Oils as Determined by High-Field FT-ICR MS

ML Chacón-Patiño, C Mase, JF Maillard… - Energy & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
One of the few similarities between petroleum and bio-oils derived from biomass pyrolysis is
that they are both complex organic mixtures composed of thousands of distinct elemental …

Recommendations for advancing test protocols examining the photo-induced toxicity of petroleum and polycyclic aromatic compounds

MM Alloy, BE Finch, CP Ward, AD Redman… - Aquatic Toxicology, 2023 - Elsevier
Photo-induced toxicity of petroleum products and polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) is
the enhanced toxicity caused by their interaction with ultraviolet radiation and occurs by two …

Natural attenuation of oil in marine environments: A review

B Péquin, Q Cai, K Lee, CW Greer - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural attenuation is an important process for oil spill management in marine environments.
Natural attenuation affects the fate of oil by physical, chemical, and biological processes …

Expanding the analytical window for biochar speciation: molecular comparison of solvent extraction and water-soluble fractions of biochar by FT-ICR mass …

AM McKenna, ML Chacon-Patino, H Chen… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biochar, a low-density yet carbon-rich material derived from different organic materials
pyrolyzed under low or no oxygen conditions, has been widely studied as a soil amendment …