Abstract

For environmental control purposes, floating oil spills in Europoort (Rotterdam) harbours must often be identified and their sources located. Pattern recognition, applied to gas chromatographic data for the spill and for various suspected sources such as oil from bunkers of passing ships and from harbour installations, can lead to definite conclusions, particularly after artificial weathering formulae have been used. The general approach for tackling these problems and the complicating factor of weathering of the oil spills is discussed.

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