Health Effects of Exposure to Oil Spills

Rodríguez-Trigo, Gema; Zock, Jan Paul; Montes, Isabel Isidro

doi:10.1016/s1579-2129(07)60141-4

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“…The discharge of oil wastewater as well as oil spills and leakages are major sources of oil pollution in the water environment . Oil pollution not only produces contamination to natural water, which undergoes a sharp decline in dissolved oxygen as a result, but also threatens human health because many constituents in oil are toxic and can be enriched through food chains . Nowadays, the widely used strategies of eliminating oil pollution include physical, chemical and biological methods .…”

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“…[1][2][3] Oil pollution not only produces contamination to natural water, which undergoes a sharp decline in dissolved oxygen as a result, but also threatens human health because many constituents in oil are toxic and can be enriched through food chains. 2,4 Nowadays, the widely used strategies of eliminating oil pollution include physical, chemical and biological methods. [5][6][7] However, the chemical method often involves the addition of chemical agents, easily leading to secondary pollution, 8 and the biological method cannot treat high concentrations of oil and needs a relatively long time.…”

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Efficient adsorption of oil in water by hydrophobic nonwoven fabrics coated with cross‐linked polydivinylbenzene fibers

Zhu

Wang

Liu

et al. 2018

J of Chemical Tech & Biotech

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Background Oil pollution of water causes extensive damage to the environment and human health. Adsorption techniques are environmentally friendly and relatively feasible to treat oil contamination and reclaim oil resources, and it is essential to develop adsorbents that have high adsorption capacity for oil which can be recycled and regenerated conveniently to save money and resources. Results Hydrophobic nonwoven fabrics coated with polydivinylbenzene nanofibres (HNF‐PDVB) were constructed by a one‐step cation polymerization reaction. The results showed that the optimal concentration of OTS (octadecylsilane) for the modification of nonwoven fibers was 1.22 mL L–1of n‐hexane. The HNF‐PDVB showed relatively good performance in adsorbing oil from water, with adsorption capacity as high as 7.5 g g–1. Freundlich and Dubinin–Radushkevic isotherms fitted well with the experimental data. The kinetic data fitted better to the pseudo‐second‐order and intraparticle diffusion models, and the parameters indicated that the adsorption by HNF‐PDVB involved macropores that contributed to the rapid and high‐capacity adsorption, as well as micropores that resulted in the diffusion of oil in the nanofibres. Thermodynamics studies revealed that the adsorption was spontaneous and endothermic, with an increasing performance when the temperature rose from 10 to 50 °C. The material possessed good stability and the adsorption capacity reduced from 7.5 g g–1 to 6.6 g g–1 after ten cycles of repeated use, recovered by squeezing and ethanol extraction. Conclusion This work demonstrates that the new hydrophobic nonwoven fabrics have the potential to be used for elimination of pollution from oil wastewater. © 2018 Society of Chemical Industry

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Efficient adsorption of oil in water by hydrophobic nonwoven fabrics coated with cross‐linked polydivinylbenzene fibers

Zhu

Wang

Liu

et al. 2018

J of Chemical Tech & Biotech

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“…Long-term effects on humans include DNA degradation, cancers, birth and reproductive defects, irreversible neurological and endocrine damage, and impaired cellular immunity [1,19,21,27,28].…”

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Detection and Classification of Land Crude Oil Spills Using Color Segmentation and Texture Analysis

Ejofodomi¹,

Ofualagba²

2017

J. Imaging

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Crude oil spills have negative consequences on the economy, environment, health and society in which they occur, and the severity of the consequences depends on how quickly these spills are detected once they begin. Several methods have been employed for spill detection, including real time remote surveillance by flying aircrafts with surveillance teams. Other methods employ various sensors, including visible sensors. This paper presents an algorithm to automatically detect the presence of crude oil spills in images acquired using visible light sensors. Images of crude oil spills used in the development of the algorithm were obtained from the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Nigeria website The major steps of the detection algorithm are image preprocessing, crude oil color segmentation, sky elimination segmentation, Region of Interest (ROI) extraction, ROI texture feature extraction, and ROI texture feature analysis and classification. The algorithm was developed using 25 sample images containing crude oil spills and demonstrated a sensitivity of 92% and an FPI of 1.43. The algorithm was further tested on a set of 56 case images and demonstrated a sensitivity of 82% and an FPI of 0.66. This algorithm can be incorporated into spill detection systems that utilize visible sensors for early detection of crude oil spills.

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“…Human exposure to low concentrations of petroleum products can result in headaches, skin irritations, itchy eyes or burning sensations in internal organs. If exposure is prolonged and the concentration of the oil is high, liver or kidney disease may develop, bone marrow damage is possible and the risk of cancer is increased (Baars, 2002;Rodriguez-Trigo et al, 2007). Many marine animals depend on their feathers or fur for warmth and when they become coated with oil their water-repellent shields are worn down and they risk freezing to death.…”

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Sequential Remediation Processes for Effective Removal of Oil from Contaminated Soils

Dave¹

2011

American Journal of Environmental Sciences

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Health Effects of Exposure to Oil Spills

Cited by 25 publications

References 14 publications

Efficient adsorption of oil in water by hydrophobic nonwoven fabrics coated with cross‐linked polydivinylbenzene fibers

Efficient adsorption of oil in water by hydrophobic nonwoven fabrics coated with cross‐linked polydivinylbenzene fibers

Detection and Classification of Land Crude Oil Spills Using Color Segmentation and Texture Analysis

Sequential Remediation Processes for Effective Removal of Oil from Contaminated Soils

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