Technology
Assessment & Research (TA&R) Program
| 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)
 |
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)
|
Lambert, P., Bobra, M.,
Development of a Field-Portable Oil Analytical Kit, Consultchem, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
1992. |
| AC (142 pages)
|
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)
|
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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