Environmental monitoring in a Cuban oil storage plant to characterize the hydrocarbons pollution exposure in the fence-line community
Due to the wide application of oil in industry, large amounts of petroleum hydrocarbons have been... annually released into the environment.
Legacy contamination and its interaction with other risks, continue impacting a new generation of residents in the fence-line communities.
The goal was to characterize the hydrocarbon pollution which could impact on the community living near to an oil plant. A Cuban oil
In Cuba, more than 50 % of the electricity generation capacity is based on small-scale distribute...d power plants, which
guarantee the energy supply-demand from fossil fuels. Several negative environmental impacts are associated with this,
including contamination by oily residuals. The purpose was to diagnose oily residuals management in Cubans distributed