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STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT: TWO LABORATORY TESTS FOR ESTIMATING PERFORMANCE OF SHORELINE CLEANING AGENTS FOR OIL SPILLS
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Clayton, Jr., J. AND E. Renard. STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT: TWO LABORATORY TESTS FOR ESTIMATING PERFORMANCE OF SHORELINE CLEANING AGENTS FOR OIL SPILLS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/A-93/265 (NTIS PB94117413), 1993.
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Chemical cleaning agents are an option that can be used to mitigate detrimental effects of stranded oil on natural shorelines under appropriate circumstances. uch agents would be used because of biological sensitivity of indigenous fauna and flora to stranded oil, amenity considerations of a shoreline, or concern about refloating of oil and subsequent stranding on adjacent shorelines. owever, prior to the use of cleaning agents at a spill site, information regarding the performance of available cleaning agents must be known (e.g., the relative performance of agents for removing stranded oil from surfaces). hrough standardized laboratory testing procedures, the relative performance of cleaning agents can be evaluated. xperiments were conducted under the direction of EPA's Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory with two test methods and two substrates (stainless steel and porcelain tile) to evaluate performance of cleaning agents. ests were performed with two types of oil and three commercially available cleaning agents. tatistical analyses of the effects on test results of experimental variables (test method, substrate type, oil type, cleaning agent type, and analytical wavelength in UV-visible spectrophotometric measurements) are presented and discussed.
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STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT: TWO LABORATORY TESTS FOR ESTIMATING PERFORMANCE OF SHORELINE CLEANING AGENTS FOR OIL SPILLS