Business expansions along with number of new companies being engaged in variety of industries aimed at getting bigger market share, underscored the role of corporate governance within the financial sphere. One of the important issues in corporate governance is acquisition. Due to the significant impact of companies in refining and petrochemical sectors on capital market and whole economy, their...

PURPOSE Petroleum refinery workers are exposed to the carcinogens benzene and 1,3-butadiene. Declining exposures have been reported internationally but information on current exposure in the Swedish refinery industry is limited. The aim was to examine refinery workers' personal exposure to benzene and 1,3-butadiene and increase awareness of exposure conditions by collaboration with involved ref...

Background Biofuels from hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of abundantly available forest residues in British Columbia (BC) can potentially make great contributions to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector. A life-cycle assessment was conducted to quantify the GHG emissions of a hypothetic 100 million liters per year HTL biofuel system in the Coast Region of BC....

Background: Gas refining is a process in which workers are exposed to different chemicals. This study aimed to assess the health risks caused by exposure to these substances in order to determine hazardous jobs and to present controlling methods. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on the workers at gas refinery in 2015. The sample included all the staff in operat...

This paper presents an integrated refinery scheduling model and its applications for a refinery located in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, P.R.China. The model integrates a crude oil unloading and storage area, a refining area, a blending area and a product storage area of the refinery. The scheduling model can be applied for optimizing the operation, configuration and production schedule of the refinery. T...

In particular, a straw-based Ablative Fast Pyrolysis (AFP) oil was upgraded via hydrotreatment (HDT) in order to be used as blending component with fossil-based intermediates. The raw pyrolysis is characterized by H/C = 0.14, O/C 0.58 and C 57.73 wt%, while the HDT has 0.016 85.85 wt%. Based on density, viscosity composition, association typical refinery, possible petroleum refinery entry point...

BlackLight Power, Inc. (the Company), a Delaware corporation based in its 53,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Cranbury, New Jersey, believes it has developed a new hydrogen chemical process that generates power, plasma (a hot ionized glowing gas), and a vast class of new compositions of matter. Specifically, the Company has designed and tested a new proprietary energy-producing chemical process. The...

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Parsian Institute of Higher Education, Qazvin, Iran E-mail: [email protected] Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Computer and IT, Islamic Azad University, Parand Branch, Parand, Tehran, Iran E-mail: [email protected] Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch, Karaj...

â  abstract: in this paper, artificial neural network (ann) was used for modeling the nonlinear structure of a debutanizer column in a refinery gas process plant. the actual input-output data of the system were measured in order to be used for system identification based on root mean square error (rmse) minimization approach. it was shown that the designed recurrent neural network is able to pr...