Modeling Chemical EOR Processes: Some Illustrations from Lab to Reservoir Scale — Chemical flooding, SP (Surfactant Polymer) or ASP (Alkali-Surfactant-Polymer), are of increasing interest due to the need to increase oil production. Design of chemical processes is very project specific and requires case by case studies including various steps among which reservoir data analysis, chemical formula...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The objective of this document is to present a detailed technical guidance document for use by spill responders for the bioremediation of marine shorelines and freshwater wetlands contaminated with oil and oil products. Technical personnel who are responsible for designing and operating field bioremediation processes as well as consultants and equipment manufacturers will also...

Recent resource assessment studies of eastern Kentucky oil shales have establlshed that this resource is a potential economic synthetic fuel feedstock (1). Extensive geochemical characterization of this resource has been carr ied out by the Institute for Mining and Mlnerals Research (University of Kentucky) with support f rom the Commonwealth of Kentucky Energy Cabinet, the U. S. Department of ...

tion in the assessment of relative lipophilicity and hydrophilicity of a compound. Recent advances in computational chemistry have enabled scientists to estimate partition coefficients for neutral species very easily. For ionizable species, the distribution coefficient is a more relevant parameter; however, less effort has been applied to its assessment. Knowledge of the distribution coefficien...

Large volumes of water become contaminated with hydrocarbons, surfactants, salts and other chemical agents during Oil & Gas exploration activities, resulting in a complex wastewater stream known as produced (PW). Nanofiltration (NF) membranes are promising alternative for the treatment PW to facilitate its re-use. Unfortunately, membrane fouling still represents major obstacle. In present work,...

fatemeh karimi tabar was born in asadabad/hamedan (iran) in 1986. she completed her b.sc. in chemistry in 2008 from bu-ali sina university, hamedan, iran. she was graduated from m.sc. degree in organic chemistry from shiraz university 2010, shiraz, iran. she is currently organic chemistry ph.d student under the supervision of prof. m.a. zolfigol and prof. a. khazaei in department of chemistry a...

BACKGROUND Literature abounds linking one's job to certain unpalatable health outcomes. Since exposures to hazardous conditions in industrial environments often results in sundry health effects among workers, we embarked on this study to investigate the hepatic health effects of occupational activities in the petroleum refining and distribution industry. METHOD Biochemical markers of liver fu...