... top ofthe house, the picture ofDorianGray grew older every year. The terrible face showed the dark secrets of his life. The heavy mouth, the yellow skin, the cruel eyes - these told the ... passed, the face in thepicture grew slowly more terrible. ThePictureof Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde retold by Jill Nevile OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1989 ThePictureofDorianGray of my ... intelligent, of course, but with ThePictureofDorianGray Dorian stood and listened. He could hear nothing — only the drip, drip of blood onto the floor. The Hand of a Killer again. The murdered...
... and hung them over the side. ey talked to each other across the theatre, and shared their or-anges with the tawdry painted girls who sat by them. Some women were laughing in the pit; their voices ... of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowa-days. ey have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self. Of course they are charitable. ey feed the ... one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. ey always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest ofthe play is entirely over they propose...
... severity ofthe spill. The purpose of contingency plans is to coordinate all aspects ofthe response toan oil spill. This includes stopping the flow of oil, containing the oil, and cleaningit up. The ... serious. As the seriousness of an incident is often not known in the initial phases, one ofthe firstpriorities is to determine the magnitude ofthe spill and its potential impact.Alerting the first ... contingency plan for this phase ofthe operation and the importance of a high level of training in first response.Stopping the flow of oil is a priority in the first phase ofthe operation, althoughresponse...
... 1.0Flash Point °C 35 45 30 to 30 30 to 60 80 to 100 >100 >80Solubility in Waterppm 200 40 10 to 50 5 to 30 10 to 30 1 to 5 –Pour Point °CNR 35 to –1–40 to 30 –40 to 30 –10 to 10 5 ... properties. These properties influence how the oil behaves when it is spilled and determine the effects ofthe oil on living organismsin the environment. These properties also influence the efficiency of ... UnitedStates, the price of a specific oil may be based on its API gravity, as well as otherproperties ofthe oil. Solubility in water is the measure of how much of an oil will dissolve in the water...
... Through the process of dissolution, some ofthe most soluble components of the oil are lost to the water under the slick. These include some ofthe lower molecularweight aromatics and some ofthe ... the future. In addition to predicting the trajectory, these models can estimate the amount of evaporation, the possibility of emulsification, the amount of dissolution and the trajectory ofthe ... canremove the bulk ofthe oil. In 19 93, the oil from a stricken ship, the Braer , dispersedalmost entirely as a result of high seas off Scotland at the time ofthe spill and the dispersible...
... water line to the top ofthe boom. The skirt is the portion ofthe boom below the floats or flotation that helps to contain the oil. It isusually made ofthe same types of fabric as the freeboard ... The freeboard member is the portion ofthe boom above the water, whichprevents oil from washing over the top ofthe boom. The term freeboard is also usedto refer to the height from the ... by the amount of flotation and the weight ofthe boom. This means that the float must provide enough buoyancy to balance the weight ofthe boom with the force exerted by currents and waves, thereby...
... much on the thickness ofthe oil, type of oil, sea state,and many other factors.**This is the percentage of oil in the recovered product. The higher the value, the less the amount of water ... is the percentage of oil in the recovered product. The higher the value, the lower the amount of water and thus the better the sorbent’s performance. â2000 by CRC Press LLC with the oil, they ... variety of factors including the type of oil spilled, the properties ofthe oil suchas viscosity, the thickness ofthe slick, sea conditions, wind speed, ambient temper-ature, and the presence of...
... tanks are often used as separators, withoutlets installed on the bottom ofthe tanks so that water that has settled to the bottom of the tank can be drained off, leaving the oil in the tank. ... ortruck. The vacuum pump creates a vacuum in the tank and the oil moves directlythrough a hose or pipe to the tank from the skimmer or the source ofthe oil. The oil does not go through the pump, ... or piston to the exit ofthe pump. The oil and other materialwith it must move through the chamber because there is no alternative passage, thus the name “positive displacement.” The screw...
... type of dispersant applied, seaenergy, salinity ofthe water, and water temperature. The composition ofthe oil is the most important of these factors, followed closely by sea energy and the ... the removal rate ofthe saturate and some ofthe aromatic fraction of the oil, so that as much as 40% ofthe oil is degraded in time periods from onemonth to a year. It has been found that the ... rapid clearance ofthe oil in the dispersant dropzone without the formation ofthe usual white to coffee-coloured plume in the watercolumn. This is very detrimental and wastes the dispersant....
... technique, the integrity of the source ofthe spill and the possibility of further spillage is always a priority. If thereis any possibility that the fire could flash back to the source ofthe spill, ... oxygenation ofthe oil.Similar analysisofthe residue shows that the same minority compounds are presentat about the same levels. The bulk ofthe residue is unburned oil without some of the volatile ... with the type of oil, the degree of weathering, and the water content ofthe oil. The standard burn rate is about 5000 L of oil per m 2 per day (100 gal per ft 2 per day). Thus, the oil...
... shoreline, and othersto conditions at the time the oil is deposited on the shoreline, such as weather andwaves. These factors include the type and amount of oil, the degree of weathering of the oil, ... and sensitivity of biota on the beach,and the steepness ofthe shore.Other important factors are the existence of a high tide berm on the beach,whether the oil is deposited in the intertidal ... shorelines. All of them arecostly and take a long time to carry out. The selection ofthe appropriate cleanuptechnique is based on the type of substrate, the depth of oil in the sediments, the amount...