A comprehensive research on petroleum hydrocarbon’s migration processes in Jiaozhou Bay

Abstract

Petroleum hydrocarbon (PHC) pollution in marine bays has been more and more serous along with the rapid development of industry and economic, and understanding the migration processes in marine bays is essential to environmental protection.This paper provided a comprehensive research on the migration processes and laws in Jiaozhou Bay, Shandong Province of China using investigation data on 1984-1988. As a result, the annual changes of PHC contents, the changes of PHC’s sources and the land-ocean migration process were defined. These findings provided solid theory basis for better understanding the transporting processes and laws of pollutants in marine bay waters.