title: A literature review of portable fluorescence-based oil-in-water monitors.
abstract: The results of a literature search on fluorescence-based portable detectors to measure the real-time concentration of oil are reported. For more than two decades, fluorometers have been commonly employed to monitor dispersed oil levels at oil spills on water. The focus of this paper has been to extract specific information from references about how the instruments were used, including set up and calibration procedures, the oil and dispersant measured, the approximate concentration range of the oil in the water column, and how the real-time data compared to traditional laboratory techniques.
authors.affiliation: Emergencies Science and Technology Division, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ont, Canada K1A 0H3. patrick.lambert@ec.gc.ca
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lambert
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D001331:Automation; D002138:Calibration; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010578:Petroleum / Q000032:analysis*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D014873:Water Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D010578:Petroleum; D014873:Water Pollutants