Petroleum
What is the most common type of this pollutant found in an environment? You can use up to two examples here, but try not to get too complicated with this question.
Oil runoff and air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels.
What is the chemical structure of this type of pollutant? Find an image of it. What are the parts? What is the chemical formula? Be sure to use an image of your pollutant in your film.
Petroleum is comprised of almost 94-99% hydrogen and carbon molecules which is why Petroleum is otherwise known as hydrocarbons. While the elemental composition of petroleum is around 83-87% carbon and 10-14% hydrogen, it is common to find traces of sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen and even trace amounts of metals.
What are some potential major sources of this pollutant here in San Diego County? Keep your information local!
Santa Barbara has had an oil spill, it affected their coastline and if the clean up wasn’t so quick, San Diego could’ve been affected. There’s pipeline
How does this chemical interact with other chemicals around it? What types of chemical reactions does it have (be VERY SPECIFIC here)? What does it form? Does water interact with it? If so, what does that change about the chemical?
Petroleum is a naturally occurring complex mixture made up predominantly of carbon and hydrogen compounds, but sometimes contains amounts of nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen together with some smaller amounts of nickel, vanadium, and other elements. Solid petroleum is called asphalt, liquid, crude oil, and gas/ natural gas.
What are the most common uses for this? Why does it wind up in a watershed?
The most common uses for petroleum is in petroleum jelly. Petroleum jelly is made by the waxy petroleum material that formed on oil rigs and distilling it. Petroleum is also an oil which is we use to fuel some of our cars, kerosene our jets and to fuel other vehicles, including most large trucks and heavy equipment.
What are the major impacts of this pollutant? Why is it an important chemical to keep track of?
Most things are affected by oil, like our atmosphere and oceans. Sadly, there’s many life forms in the ocean that die due to the heavy amounts of carbon dioxide in the body of water they live in.
How do people detect this or quantify how much is the watershed? What are some methods of finding it? How is it removed from a watershed (the word for this is remediation)?
In a watershed and other bodies of water, water quality is usually lost when petroleum products or fertilizers are washed from community or industrial sites or when mine tailings leach into streams. Poor water quality may cause direct mortality or it may have long-term sublethal effects. Runoff from parking lots seems to carry traces of petroleum, which could be prevented by frequent street cleanings.
Oil runoff and air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels.
What is the chemical structure of this type of pollutant? Find an image of it. What are the parts? What is the chemical formula? Be sure to use an image of your pollutant in your film.
Petroleum is comprised of almost 94-99% hydrogen and carbon molecules which is why Petroleum is otherwise known as hydrocarbons. While the elemental composition of petroleum is around 83-87% carbon and 10-14% hydrogen, it is common to find traces of sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen and even trace amounts of metals.
What are some potential major sources of this pollutant here in San Diego County? Keep your information local!
Santa Barbara has had an oil spill, it affected their coastline and if the clean up wasn’t so quick, San Diego could’ve been affected. There’s pipeline
How does this chemical interact with other chemicals around it? What types of chemical reactions does it have (be VERY SPECIFIC here)? What does it form? Does water interact with it? If so, what does that change about the chemical?
Petroleum is a naturally occurring complex mixture made up predominantly of carbon and hydrogen compounds, but sometimes contains amounts of nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen together with some smaller amounts of nickel, vanadium, and other elements. Solid petroleum is called asphalt, liquid, crude oil, and gas/ natural gas.
What are the most common uses for this? Why does it wind up in a watershed?
The most common uses for petroleum is in petroleum jelly. Petroleum jelly is made by the waxy petroleum material that formed on oil rigs and distilling it. Petroleum is also an oil which is we use to fuel some of our cars, kerosene our jets and to fuel other vehicles, including most large trucks and heavy equipment.
What are the major impacts of this pollutant? Why is it an important chemical to keep track of?
Most things are affected by oil, like our atmosphere and oceans. Sadly, there’s many life forms in the ocean that die due to the heavy amounts of carbon dioxide in the body of water they live in.
How do people detect this or quantify how much is the watershed? What are some methods of finding it? How is it removed from a watershed (the word for this is remediation)?
In a watershed and other bodies of water, water quality is usually lost when petroleum products or fertilizers are washed from community or industrial sites or when mine tailings leach into streams. Poor water quality may cause direct mortality or it may have long-term sublethal effects. Runoff from parking lots seems to carry traces of petroleum, which could be prevented by frequent street cleanings.