Fast pyrolysis oils are one source of renewable liquid fuels, which could be used as green fuels in a sustainable manner. The ASTM D664 method used to determine the acidic constituents in petroleum products, lubricants, and biodiesel requires mixtures of isopropyl alcohol (IPA) and toluene as solvent. The ASTM method also uses large quantities of solvents for the total acid number (TAN) determi...

Accidental aspiration of petroleum products in children can also be witnessed in adults working with petroleum products by siphonage or swallowing fire for demonstration purposes. Ten cases admitted to Yuzuncu Yil University Emergency Service due to fuel oil and gasoline aspiration in a three-year period were retrospectively analysed. All cases were males and their average age was determined as...

The majority of overland transport needs for crude petroleum and refined products are met using pipelines. Numerous studies have developed optimization methods design these systems in order to minimize construction costs while meeting capacity requirements. Here, we formulate problems optimize the operations existing single liquid commodity pipeline subject physical flow pump engineering constr...

Pipelines provide an economic fluid transportation mode for petroleum systems, especially when large amounts of petroleum derivatives have to be pumped for long distances. The system reported in this paper is composed by an oil refinery, one multiproduct pipeline connected to several depots and to the local consumer markets that receive large amounts of oil products. Extensive distances must be...

Congenital fibrosarcoma (CFS) is a rare fibrous tissue malignancy that usually presents in the first few years of life. It is unique among human sarcomas in that it has an excellent prognosis. We describe a temporal clustering of a number of cases of CFS and investigate the possible associated prenatal risk factors. The Pediatric Environmental History, a questionnaire developed in our clinic th...

Gulf of Mexico (GOM) ecosystems are interconnected by numerous physical and biological processes. After the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) disaster, these ecological processes facilitated dispersal oil-spill toxicants or were damaged broken. A considerable portion post-DWH research focused on higher levels organization (i.e., populations, communities, ecosystems) spanning at least four environments (o...