A machine learning-quantitative structure property relationship (ML-QSPR) method is proposed to predict 15 fuel physicochemical properties of 23 types. QSPR-UOB 3.0 functional group classification system developed extract and digitalize the molecular feature. ML algorithms are used map feature as well model parameter tuning. UOB Fuel Property Database (1797 pure compounds 465 mixtures) establis...

A new fuel quality indicator called micropyrolysis index (MPI) is proposed for quantifying sooting tendencies of fuels in research laboratories. The MPI has been designed with the following characteristics: (i) oxygen independence, since sooting tendencies can change dramatically with varying oxygen concentration, (ii) reduced sample volume that can be utilized on a laboratory scale, (iii) impr...

During the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico a deep-sea hydrocarbon plume developed resulting in a rapid succession of bacteria. Colwellia eventually supplanted Oceanospirillales, which dominated the plume early in the spill. These successional changes may have resulted, in part, from the changing composition and abundance of hydrocarbons over time. Colwellia abundance pea...

To understand the effect of thermochemical sulphate reduction (TSR) on stable carbon isotopes light hydrocarbons (LHs) associated with natural gas, 15 gases varying H 2 S content from Ordovician reservoir Tazhong gas field (TZ-I) in Tarim Basin and Triassic Leikoupo Zhongba (ZB) Sichuan were collected. Based data molecular components isotope ratios C 1 -C 4 alongside individual LHs (C 6 7 ) the...

Polyolefins account for 60% of global plastic consumption, but many potential applications of polyolefins require that their properties, such as compatibility with polar polymers, adhesion, gas permeability, and surface wetting, be improved. A strategy to overcome these deficiencies would involve the introduction of polar functionalities onto the polymer chain. Here, we describe the Ni-catalyze...

An ongoing analysis of the supramolecular self-assembly of disubstituted cycloalkanes has led to the discovery of seven packing patterns built up from hydrogen-bonded homo- and heterochiral chains of racemic molecules, associated in either antiparallel or parallel arrays [Kálmán et al. (2001). Acta Cryst. B57, 539-550]. Two further patterns have been revealed in the close packing of analogous a...

Two Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometers (AMS) were deployed at three sites representing urban, semi-rural and rural areas during the Pacific 2001 experiment in the Lower Fraser Valley (LFV), British Columbia, Canada in August 2001. The AMS provides on-line quantitative measurements of the size and chemical composition of the non-refractory fraction of submicron aerosol particles. A significant ...

. There is little doubt that the bulk of the organic matter in meteorites is indigenous, judging from isotopic measurements on C, H, and S (20, 21). Such proof is not available for individual compounds, however, and it is therefore necessary to resort to less direct arguments to rule out terrestrial contamination. We shall briefly review the most reliably established features of organic matter ...