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Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Crude Oil Stained Silt and Sand
Sediment
Aimi Atina Binti Md Desa
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Edlic Sathiamurthy
Bachelor of Technology (Environment)
School of Ocean Engineering
Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
Oil is transported by ships across the oceans and by pipelines across the lands around
the world. This has resulted in several accidents oil spillage. The residue oil that
remained after the oil spillage incident will contaminate the sediment and affect the
hydrologic properties of the soil. Hence, the study regarding the change of saturated
hydraulic conductivity of crude oil stained sand sediment has been conducted to see
the changes of water movement between polluted and unpolluted sediment. This
study was conducted by using Darcy experiment. The average of sand sediment that
has been used is between 0.710 mm to 0.800 mm. This experiment has found that,
the presence of crude oil residual has clogged the pore spaces that available between
sand sediment and thus inhibits the water to flow freely though the interconnected
pore inside the sediment that was proved by using Darcy Law analysis.
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