Recent legislation and energy prices have led to an increased need for alternative energy sources. Biomass, including forest residues, is expected to replace a part of the nation’s reliance on petroleum consumption. This paper provides an overview of existing literature related to the harvest, communition and transport of forest residues. Past studies have investigated the systems associated wi...

The purpose of this short study was to identify the drivers of export orientation of firms in the subsea oil and gas industry in Western Norway. As the oil fields in the North Sea are approaching a stage of maturity, gaining knowledge of these drivers is crucial. An online survey was conducted of firms operating in the subsea oil and gas industry in the region. Consistent with previous research...

Conventional asphalt binder derived from the petroleum refining process is widely used in pavement engineering. However, asphalt binder is a non-renewable material. Therefore, the use of a co-production of renewable bio-oil as a modifier for petroleum asphalt has recently been getting more attention in the pavement field due to its renewability and its optimization for conventional petroleum-ba...

The relation between occupational factors and pancreatic cancer has been studied by two different approaches: a population based case-control study with two series of controls and a retrospective cohort study based on register data. With both approaches, some support was found for an association with occupational exposure to petroleum products. Associations were also indicated with exposure to ...

The dire need in the present electricity generation is to resort to methods entailing lesser non-renewable resources. The present decadence of the conventional energy resources such as coal, petroleum indicate that soon the development and the innovation in the Non-Conventional Energy Resources would be the man’s only recourse to the ever burgeoning demands in electricity. Thus a need for the d...

Selected carbon-rich refinery residues ('binders') mixed with mineral particles can form composite materials ('bituminous concrete') with bulk mechanical properties comparable to those of cement concrete. The microstructural mechanism underlying the remarkable composite properties has been related to the appearance of a rigid percolating network consisting of asphaltenes and mineral particles [...

Discussions of alternative fuel and propulsion technologies for transportation often overlook the infrastructure required to make these options practical and cost-effective. We estimate ethanol production facility locations and use a linear optimization model to consider the economic costs of distributing various ethanol fuel blends to all metropolitan areas in the United States. Fuel options i...

It is now widely believed in neutrino physics that neutrino oscillations are influenced by the presence of matter, modifying the energy spectrum produced by a neutrino beam traversing the Earth. Here, we will discuss the reverse problem, i.e., what could be learned about the Earth’s interior from a single neutrino baseline energy spectrum, especially about the Earth’s mantle. In the end of the ...

...I think [petroleum intermediates] poses one of the great problems before our company today. Should we get into it at all; if so, how deeply? What are our advantages or disadvantages opposite the many others who are already interested in that field among both chemical manufacturers and petroleum anufacturers? -W.S. Carpenter, Jr., Du Pont President, o C.H. Greenewalt, August 16, 1946 [Carpent...

The use of reference materials for sensory evaluation virgin olive oils by tasters, panel leaders and trainers represents a fundamental tool to ensure the performance test in meeting regulatory demands protect quality product. Herein, procedure certification two, recently formulated, artificial olfactory (RMs) winey-vinegary rancid defects oil is presented. A technical protocol, consisting diff...