Air emissions of volatile liquids spilled on sands

摘要

AbstractSimple laboratory experiments simulating a spill of a volatile liquid on sands were conducted. Hexane was spilled onto both initially dry sand and water‐wetted sand at near field capacity. The experimental conditions approximated the assumptions of a theory developed by Thibodeaux (1979). Predictions of a modification of this model were generally in good agreement at early times with data on the rate of volatilization. The modified model can be used to estimate air emissions of a volatile liquid spilled on sand