Introductions

Introductions

• Introductions

• Project team and contract specs

• Contracting requirements

• Project overview

• Tasks
• Schedule
• Preliminary Data
• Technical Approach
• Team Equipment

• Summary

Team:

• Team:

• Prime: Applied Research Associates, Inc.

• PI and Project Manager: Paul D. Panetta, Ph.D.
• Greg Hewitt

• Partner: Virginia Institute of Marine Science

• PI: Professor Carl Friedrichs, Chair Physical Science Department
• Grace Cartwright, Lab Manager and Ph.D. Candidate
• Post Doc

• Funding: Fixed Price

• Duration: 12 months, September 26, 2011 to September 25, 2012

Founded 1979, Albuquerque, New Mexico

• Founded 1979, Albuquerque, New Mexico

• 1,446 Employee Owners at locations in the U.S. and Canada

• FY 09 Sales of $213.2 million

Mission: VIMS provides research, education, and advisory service in marine science to Virginia, the nation, and the world.

• Mission: VIMS provides research, education, and advisory service in marine science to Virginia, the nation, and the world.

• Established in 1940 as the Virginia Fisheries Laboratory

• 500 faculty, staff, and students

• 100 graduate students in the School of Marine Science

• 40-acre main campus

• William & Mary’s School of Marine Science

OBJECTIVE:

• OBJECTIVE:

• Develop field monitoring methods and technologies to measure the effectiveness of dispersants for subsea applications using ultrasonic based technologies to measure the oil particulate size.

• DELIVERABLES:

• Kick Off Meeting Summary

• Quarterly Progress Reports

• Final Report

Task 1. Laboratory Measurements

• Task 1. Laboratory Measurements

• Measure ultrasonic scattering response from oil droplets

• Dispersion Types (Corexit 9500, Corexit 9527 and Agma DR 379)

• Crude types, sediment, and temperature

• Precision ultrasonic instruments

• Commercial sonar and marine acoustic instruments

• Task 2. Data Analysis

• Benchmark ultrasonic measurements of droplet size with LISST and visual measurements/image analysis.

• Task 3. Theory and Modeling

• Literature Review

• Compare the theory with the experiment.

• Task 4. Algorithm Development

• Develop the droplet sizing algorithm from ultrasonic/acoustic data

• Task 5. Testing at Ohmsett

• Study dispersion effectiveness and robustness of measurement methods using precision ultrasonic, sonar, and marine acoustics instruments.

• Task 6. Reporting and Project Management

• Quarterly and final reports

Objective: Develop ultrasonic and acoustic measurements to measure oil particulate size to study dispersant effectives

• Objective: Develop ultrasonic and acoustic measurements to measure oil particulate size to study dispersant effectives

• Lab measurements

• Ohmsett measurements

• Building on sound science

• Excellent equipment available

• Excellent project team of physical scientists and marine scientists