About this Research Topic
This topic focuses on technologies related to petroleum pollution, especially but not exclusively, its monitoring, ecotoxicological and economic risk assessment, separation and removal from marine environments. Furthermore, new technologies and processes that efficiently separate oil from produced water from offshore oil and gas fields will also be addressed on advanced satellite-based monitoring methods for oil leakage, and cutting-edge technologies for the degradation of petroleum derivatives threatening the marine environment. Marine ecological hazards due to petroleum spills are targeting cutting-edge monitoring tools and degradation/remediation technologies for petroleum derivatives.
These help to prevent or reduce environmental risks due to human activities in marine environments. Potential topics of interest mainly include, but are not limited to:
• Pressure-driven technologies for efficient oil and water separation in the marine environment. Advanced membrane fabrication and operation for ultrafiltration and nanofiltration and development of filter material for microfiltration and other filtrating processes are encouraged
• Advanced technologies that dynamically monitor oil spills and pollution conditions, e.g. satellite-based monitoring technologies
• Biotechnological approaches of marine petroleum remediation
• Ecotoxicology of marine organisms exposed to petroleum pollutants
Keywords: petroleum, leakage, separation, pollution, degradation, biotechnology, marine environment, membrane filtration, monitoring, ecotoxicology, bioremediation
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