TY - JOUR AU - Betancourt, Fabián AU - Palacio, Arturo AU - Rodriguez, Alejandro PY - 2005 TI - Effects of the Mass Transfer Process in Oil Spill JF - American Journal of Applied Sciences VL - 2 IS - 5 DO - 10.3844/ajassp.2005.939.946 UR - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajassp.2005.939.946 AB - A revision of the models used to study the behavior of the mass loss processes associated with petroleum spills on water and to compare those models with experimental data. The processes of mass transfer studied in this work are evaporating, dissolution, vertical dispersion, emulsification and the changes of properties associated with these. The comparison of the estimations with the field data allowed determining the utility and the degree of adjustment of the expressions.