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Approximately 3 million gallons of oil or refined petroleum products are spilled into U.S. waters every year. Oil dispersants (chemical agents such as surfactants, solvents, and other compounds) are used to reduce the effect of oil spills by changing the chemical and physical properties of the oil. By enhancing the amount of oil that physically mixes into the water, dispersants can reduce the potential that a surface slick will contaminate shoreline habitats. Although called for in the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 as a tool for minimizing the impact of oil spills, the use of chemical dispersants has long been controversial. This book reviews the adequacy of existing information and ongoing research regarding the effectiveness of dispersants as an oil spill response technique, as well as the effect of dispersed oil on marine and coastal ecosystems. Oil Spill Dispersants also includes recommended steps for policy makers faced with making hard choices regarding the use of dispersants as part of spill contingency planning efforts or during actual spills..
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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A669323. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Thrust augmenting ejectors were analyzed by the author in an attempt to see if they could be used to provide a significant thrust increase over the baseline thrust of a primary core. This was done for the purpose of determining if leaving the ejectors open in the cruise configuration of the High Speed Civil Transport would lead to a thrust increase that would at least offset the weight of the ejectors themselves. If this was found to be true then the fuel economy of the HSCT might be improved by leaving them open and not closing them during cruise. In analyzing the ejectors, no assumptions were made regarding inlet nor outlet configurations, so an attempt was made to find the point of optimal thrust augmentation by varying secondary stream bypass Mach number and the amount of flow entrainment. Two solutions were found to each mixing scenario, one subsonic and the other supersonic. These two solutions were each analyzed and ones not satisfying the Second Law of Thermodynamics were eliminated. Analytic diffuser and bleed losses were also explored in the analysis of the ejector flow. Within the limitations of the assumptions discussed in this paper, appreciable thrust augmentations have been discovered over a large range of bypass Mach numbers and entrained mass flows. This lead the author to the conclusion that ejectors warrant further research beyond a first order analysis, and serious thought should be put into leaving them open in cruise..
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