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Ramocs,oil spill,risk assessment HNS,oil fingerprinting

OBJECTIVES

 The RAMOCS project is one of the funded by the AMPERA ERANET an European coordination to foster prevention and best response to accidental marine pollution.

 

The primary objective is to develop fingerprinting tools for heavy oils and new products and to assess their risk in spills in different European regional seas scenarios.. The specific objectives are the following:

 

  • To improve fingerprinting tools for heavy oil for source recognition in the marine environment.
  • To improve assessment tools for heavy oil weathering in the marine environment.
  • To develop strategies to assess the major weathering processes (dissolution, evaporation, photooxidation, biodegradation) affecting the spillage of hazardous noxious substances.
  • To develop methodologies for identifying the toxic species occurring in the spills by using bioassay-directed analysis.
  • To establish toxicity thresholds of toxic components in sensitive species considering single and combined joint effects.
  • Application of the developed tools to several case studies and define a general strategy to be included in the response/contingency plans, for its use in a European dimension.
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WP1 New fingerprinting tools for source recognition and weathering status assessment of heavy oils and related products.

New fingerprinting tools for source recognition and weathering status assessment of heavy oils and related products. Conventional fingerprinting techniques based on GC-MS will be intercompared with GCxGC-ToF for source recognition of chemical spills, particularly of heavy oils. Fast sample pretreatment will be developed according to the mass spectrometry technique used for high sample throughput. Moreover, alternative indexes based on molecular markers to assess the contribution of the different processes affecting to the weathering (i.e. volatilization, dissolution, biodegradation and photooxidation) will be developed. These experiments will be performed in a microcosmos under controlled conditions. PML and CSIC possess the expertise to carry out this work.

 

Scientist leader: Dr. Josep M. Bayona (CSIC)


 

WP2 Methodologies to investigate the contamination following organic and organometallic chemical spillages.

 Methodologies to investigate the contamination following organic and organometallic chemical spillages. Methodologies and approaches to assess shipping accidents involving the transportation of hazardous and noxious substances will be developed. Chemical products will be priorised according with IMO and GESAMP guidelines/databases and shipping volumes. Moreover, sampling and analytical techniques to assess the fates and risks following a HNS spillage will be reported.

 


Scientist leader: Dr. James Readman (PML)

 

List of publications

FINAL REPORT
Click here to DOWNLOAD FINAL R...27-04-2012Read more
Readman, J.W. (2009).
Chemical Analysis of Hydrocarb...22-01-2010Read more

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