Abstract:

Experiments were performed with South Louisiana crude oil contaminated salt water, limestone, and quartz. Fine (greater than 0.3 mm and less than 0.075 mm) particle sized quartz was tested, and both fine and medium (greater than 2.0 mm and less than 3.0 mm) particle size limestone were tested in 4 trials each. This dataset reports the amount of oil in different phases after particles were added to oil contaminated salt water. This dataset supports the paper Daria Boglaienko and Berrin Tansel (2015) Instantaneous stabilization of floating oils by surface application of natural granular materials (beach sand and limestone), Marine Pollution Bulletin, 91:1, 107-112, doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.12.020.

Suggested Citation:

Berrin Tansel. 2017. Dataset for: Instantaneous stabilization of floating oils by surface application of natural granular materials (beach sand and limestone). Distributed by: GRIIDC, Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N7K935ZJ

Publications:

Boglaienko, D., & Tansel, B. (2015). Instantaneous stabilization of floating oils by surface application of natural granular materials (beach sand and limestone). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 91(1), 107–112. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.12.020

Purpose:

The purpose of this study was to characterize the oil capture efficiency and effectiveness of particles for converting floating oil to a heavier phase for effective separation.

Data Parameters and Units:

limestone (medium particle size), amount of sand (grams), trial number, percent settled oil,settled oil (grams), floating oil (grams), aggregate (grams), conc oil (mg/L), conc sand (mg/L), conc aggregate (mg/L), settl oil/floating oil (g/g) % settled oil, % residual oil, limestone (fine particle size), amount of sand (grams), trial number, percent settled oil,settled oil (grams), floating oil (grams), aggregate (grams), conc oil (mg/L), conc sand (mg/L), conc aggregate (mg/L), settl oil/floating oil (g/g) % settled oil, % residual oil, quartz (fine particle size), amount of sand (grams), trial number, percent settled oil, oil: sand ratio, residual oil:settled oil ratio, settled oil (grams), floating oil (grams), aggregate (grams), conc oil (mg/L), conc sand (mg/L), conc aggregate (mg/L), settl oil/floating oil (g/g) % settled oil, % residual oil

Methods:

These experiments were conducted with South Louisiana crude oil contaminated salt water. 1 mL of crude oil was added to 100 mL saltwater prepared with Synthetic sea salt "Instant Ocean", Aquarium Systems, Mentor, OH at 34g/L in 125 mL Erlenmeyer flasks. Limestone or quartz sand were weighed to 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 3.5 grams and added to the flask during shaking by orbital shaker (150 rpm). The flask was removed from the shaker and the solution was filtered through a coarse nonwoven fiberglass filter to separate oil-particle aggregates.

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