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Project Number 162
Date of Summary March 31, 1992
Subject Development of a Portable Oil Analysis Kit for Responders
Performing Activity Emergencies Science Division, Environment Canada
Principal Investigator Mr. Merv F. Fingas
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Complete
Description The Minerals Management Service joined in a cooperative effort with Environment Canada to develop a field kit to measure oil properties. Spill responders must understand the properties of the petroleum before determining safe and efficient countermeasures for spills. Many countermeasures are precluded when oil becomes highly viscous and dense through weathering. Development of the kit focused on five tests; density, viscosity, water content, flash point and dispersant effectiveness.
Progress Complete

Reports
AA (14 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Lambert, P. G., Bobra, M. A., Fingas, M. F., Tennyson, E. J., Gould, J. R. Development of a Portable Field Kit for Measuring Properties of Spilled Oils, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program Technical Seminar, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 12-14, 1991.
AB (36 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Lambert, P., Bobra, M., Development of a Field-Portable Oil Analytical Kit, Consultchem, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1992.
AC (142 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Lambert, P., Bobra, M., Development of a Field-Portable Oil Analytical Kit, Consultchem, Environmental Emergency Manuscript Report Number EE-134, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, May 1992.
AD (8 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Lambert, P. G., Fieldhouse, B. G., Fingas, M. F., Whiticar, S. J., Tennyson, E. J., Mullin, J. V., Sampling and Analysis in the Field: Methodologies Used by the Emergencies Sciences Division., Proceedings of the Seventeenth Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program Technical Seminar, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, pp. 277-288, June 8-10, 1994.

 

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