2024 - Short Course on Computer-Assisted Oil Spill Environmental Assessments in Land and Water

Type of hydrocarbons and their characteristics.
Crude oil properties databases.
Behaviour of hydrocarbons in the environment.
Concepts and theories of the process of oil spreading on the surface of the water and land.
Influence of the wind, currents and waves in the spreading processes.
Formulation to calculate Evaporation, infiltration, emulsification, dissolution, interaction with shore, heat transfer, etc.
Effect of oil fate processes on oil viscosity and density.