Study of processes involved in oil spill gathering in water

Separate flow of an oil/water mixture along a fray has been found possible only at very low rates. Higher flowrates cause surges where some oil globules begin running away from the bulk of blocked oil, skipping under the boom used in experiments. It has been Pound that booms used for gathering oil spills on the wafer surface will be efficient at water flows below 0.16 m/sec.