Water and oilfrom Christian Hofmann and Alexander Karl

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Structure1. Oil water compound

Accident cause

Causes of oil water compound

2. Separate oil from water Measures against oil residues

3. Oil accidents Oil desaster Gulf of Mexico

Measures to protect

Causes during the disaster

Current status

Causes Accidents at oil rigs

Causes Leak in an oil refinery

Causes Tanker accident

Causes Leaky pipes

Causes of oil water compound

Oil spreads very fast on water surface

Oil evaporates into the air

Oil contamination of sea animals

Oil seeps into groundwater

Measures against oil waste

Offshore

• Limited by barriers

• skim off

• chemical dispersion

• oil combustion

Measures against oil residues

At the beach

• Treating animals

• prevention

Oil accidents

Porto 1975• Tanker accident

• 88.000 tons of oil

Oil accidents

Italy, gulf of Genua 1991• Tanker accident

• 144.000 tons of oil

Oil disaster

Gulf of Mexico• 2010 one of the hardest desasters

ever

• 700 million liters of oil

Oil disaster Gulf of Mexico

Oil disaster Gulf of Mexico

Oil disaster Gulf of Mexico

Measures to protect

Measures to protect

Measures to protect

Causes during the disaster

The nature reserve is in the middle of the accident

The Mississippi Delta is endangered

Increased Air pollution caused by burning

80% of the escaped oil is still below the sea surface

Animals are helplessly exposed to the oil

Current status

The Oil leak was in 2000 meters deep

Oil decomposing bacteria have formed

Land and sea still contaminated

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