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Giovanni Briguglio and Vincenzo Crupi
The increasingly stringent requirements?in terms of limiting pollutants and the constant need to make maritime transport safer?generated the necessity to foresee different solutions that are original. According to the European Maritime Safety Agency, the...
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Chenyong Wang, Hongpeng Zhang, Chenzhao Bai, Wei Li, Shengzhao Wang and Shuyao Zhang
In order to realize the lubricant fluid condition monitoring of ships and offshore engineering equipment, a multi-channel, dual-mode oil multi-pollution detection sensor is proposed and fabricated. The sensor has three detection channels connected via te...
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Pablo Cabrera-Barona, Denise Albán and Gustavo Durán
The Amazon has a population that is largely urban. However, research is limited regarding representations and analysis of the urban Amazon. This article represents and describes Amazonian urban areas by applying a multicriteria urbanization index. Using ...
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Jialin Dong, Katherine Sitler, Joseph Scalia, Yunhao Ge, Paul Bireta, Natasha Sihota, Thomas P. Hoelen and Gregory V. Lowry
Oil sheen on the water surface can indicate a source of hydrocarbon in underlying subaquatic sediments. Here, we develop and test the accuracy of an algorithm for automated real-time visual monitoring of the water surface for detecting oil sheen. This de...
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Oleg Bukin, Dmitry Proschenko, Denis Korovetskiy, Alexey Chekhlenok, Viktoria Yurchik and Ilya Bukin
The oil pollution of seas is increasing, especially in local areas, such as ports, roadsteads of the vessels, and bunkering zones. Today, methods of monitoring seawater are costly and applicable only in the case of big ecology disasters. The development ...
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Mariano Morell Villalonga, Manuel Espino Infantes, Manel Grifoll Colls and Marc Mestres Ridge
Oil spill accidents during port operations are one of the main hydrocarbon pollution threats for coastal waters. Appropriate environmental risk assessment and pollution events management tools are needed to achieve sustainability and environmental protec...
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Davide Moroni, Gabriele Pieri and Marco Tampucci
In recent years, large oil spills have received widespread media attention, while small and micro oil spills are usually only acknowledged by the authorities and local citizens who are directly or indirectly affected by these pollution events. However, s...
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Gabriele Pieri, Michele Cocco and Ovidio Salvetti
Sea shipping routes have become very crowded and this, coupled with an always increasing demand of oil based products, contributes to the increase in maritime traffic density, as a consequence pollution risks have increased. Therefore, it is important to...
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Vladimir Zalesny, Valeriy Agoshkov, Robert Aps, Victor Shutyaev, Anton Zayachkovskiy, Floris Goerlandt and Pentti Kujala
Methods and technology have been developed to solve a wide range of problems in the dynamics of sea currents and to assess their ?impact? on objects in the marine environment. Technology can be used for monitoring and forecasting sea currents, for solvin...
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Susanne M. Charlesworth, Jamie Beddow and Ernest O. Nnadi
Pervious Paving Systems (PPS) are part of a sustainable approach to drainage in which excess surface water is encouraged to infiltrate through their structure, during which potentially toxic elements, such as metals and hydrocarbons are treated by biodeg...
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