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Oil refinery

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Refineries in plains and valleys. Debating the environmental problems of oil infrastructure in Switzerland (1958-1966)

As oil consumption surged in Western Europe after 1945, its environmental and sanitary consequences became visible to consumers for whom they had remained largely hidden until then. Indeed, refineries had long been located in the producing countries or, in ...

2023

Long-term biodegradation of crude oil in high-arctic backshore sediments: The Baffin Island Oil Spill (BIOS) after nearly four decades

Ianina Altshuler

With an on-going disproportional warming of the Arctic Ocean and the reduction of the sea ice cover, the risk of an accidental oil spill from ships or future oil exploration is increasing. It is hence important to know how crude oil weathers in this enviro ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

Tunable biocomposite films fabricated using cellulose nanocrystals and additives for food packaging

Wenjing Sun, Cong Chen

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are considered a prospective packaging material to partially replace petroleumbased plastics attributed to their renewability, sustainability, biodegradability, and desirable attributes including transparency, oxygen, and oil ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Business power and the regulation of pollution: oil refineries in Switzerland in the early 1960s

Nicolas Christophe Chachereau

In the late 1950s and in the 1960s, in response to the surge of gasoline and fuel oil consumption, several international oil companies planned the building of refineries in Switzerland, linked to European pipelines. Two were realized, out of four propositi ...

2022

Toward Sustainable and Cost-Effective CO2 Conversion Processes to Propylene Carbonate Based on Ionic Liquids

Elia Mercedes Ruiz Pachon

The use of ionic liquids (ILs) for CO2 capture and utilization into a valuable product is attracting interest even though literature evaluating their sustainability is scarce. A liquid-liquid extraction (LLE)-based separation is recently proposed as an alt ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

In-silico zein/tannic acid colloidal nanoparticles and their activity at oil and water interface of Pickering emulsion using molecular dynamics simulation

Niloufar Sharif

The computational method was used to explain the activity of zein-based colloidal nanoparticles at inter-face between water and oil phases. The alpha-zein/tannic acid colloidal nanoparticles (ZTPs) were made using three steps including dissolving alpha-zei ...

ELSEVIER2022

Optimization of the Hydrogen Network in an Oil Refinery

The stricter environmental and product quality regulations are pushing oil refineries to increase hydrotreatment and hydrocracking capacities to lower the sulfur contents in the products, thus leading to a higher demand for hydrogen. The efficient use of h ...

2022

Optimized hierarchical nickel sulfide as a highly active bifunctional catalyst for overall water splitting

Yun Tong, Pengzuo Chen

Rational design of non-noble metal electrocatalysts with high intrinsic activity for both the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is extremely impressive for sustainable electrocatalytic water splitting systems. However, i ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Dynamic Modeling and Control of a Coupled Reforming/Combustor System for the Production of H2 via Hydrocarbon-Based Fuels

Theodoros Damartzis

The present work aims to provide insights into the dynamic operation of a coupled reformer/combustion unit that can utilize a variety of saturated hydrocarbons (HCs) with 1–4 C atoms towards H2 production (along with CO2). Within this concept, a preselecte ...

2020

A risk-based multi-level stress test methodology: application to six critical non-nuclear infrastructures in Europe

Anton Schleiss, Daniela Rodrigues, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos

Recent natural disasters that seriously affected critical infrastructure (CI) with significant socio-economic losses and impact revealed the need for the development of reliable methodologies for vulnerability and risk assessment. In this paper, a risk-bas ...

2020

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