Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/A/S/2001/01222
MIMOS: Managing the Impacts of industrial Marine Organic Substances - towards a 'sea-truthing' of environmental discharge models.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor S Rowland, University of Plymouth, Sch of Earth Ocean and Environment
- Grant held at:
- University of Plymouth, Sch of Earth Ocean and Environment
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Pollution and Waste
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Science Topics:
- Pollution
- Environment & Health
- Sediment/Sedimentary Processes
- Technol. for Environ. Appl.
- Abstract:
- We wish to apply new, sensitive and specific, multistage LC-ESI-MS methods to the determination of polar chemicals from oil field discharges in sediments collected around two North Sea oil platforms. Crude oil is produced offshore in the North Sea accompanied by a huge volume of contaminated water. To aid drilling and the separation of the water from the oil, thousands of tonnes of organic chemicals are added to the water. These are discharged to the sea where, since most are formulated by their physical properties and few methods of analysis have been available until now, their fate and effects have rarely been studied. Instead, theoretical computations such as the CHARM model, have been used to arrive at the concentrations which can be legally discharged. With industrial and Council support, we now wish to begin to 'sea-truth' such model predictions using cutting edge LC-ESI-MS.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/A/S/2001/01222
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £66,680
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £218 | £41,901 | £5,287 | £19,274 |
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