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THE STABILITY OF POLLUTING OIL SLICK ON THE WATER SURFACE By
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| Author | Csongrady, K. J. |
| Abstract | The oil boom Oil booms have been used over a long time to confine oil pollution (e.g. in oil harbours). Lnfortunately the pollution does not affect the waters in the quiet, windshielded area of the harbours ' basin alone but it gets more and more frequently to the drift of the streams. To combat pollution the most important task is to stop and to remove the material floating on the water surface thus preventing further reaches, river banks and other do·wnstream water-based interests (e.g. intake ·works) from being damaged. The use of traditional oil boom structures in open watercourses seemed at first to give satisfactory protection against the spread of the drifting materials. It became, however, soon manifest that these were often inefficient in retarding the oil sIicks on flowing water. The probability of failure was seen to be propor-tional to the flow velocity at the place to be protected. Nevertheless, the systematic research work on the hydraulic problems of the oil booms has started only recently. |
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