Natural gas processing requires the removal of acidic gases and dehydration using absorption, mainly conducted in tri-ethylene glycol (TEG). The process is accompanied by emission volatile organic compounds, including BTEX. In our previous work, multi-objective optimization was undertaken to determine optimal operating conditions terms parameters that can mitigate BTEX data-driven metamodeling ...

Oil exploration generates produced water that is characterized as hazardous and toxic waste. Produced contains a mixture of various pollutants, including monoaromatic hydrocarbons BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene), compounds are carcinogenic even in small concentrations. In this study, tannin iron complex (TA-FeIII), blended into polyethersulfone (PES) membrane was evaluated for the...

Abstract Contamination of Lekki lagoon by petrogenic chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene (BTEX) has been widely reported. The study was aimed at investigating the bioaccumulation PAH BTEX in Malapterurus electricus collected from Lagos, Nigeria. analyzed intestine, water, sediment samples using 8260B Agilent 7890B gas chromatograph...

We integrated an air-cooled cold trap (CT) channel in a microfluidic device for monitoring airborne benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX) gases and demonstrated its effect on improving the detection limit of the microfluidic device. The device consists of concentration and detection cells formed of 3 x 1 cm Pyrex plates. We first introduced a sample gas into the concentration cell, ...

In this 10 year study, Brazilian gasoline (100 L, containing 24% ethanol by volume) was released to a sandy aquifer to evaluate the natural attenuation of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and total xylenes (BTEX) in the presence of ethanol. Groundwater concentrations of BTEX, ethanol, and degradation products (e.g., acetate and methane) were measured over the entire plume using an array of monit...

Benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes (BTEX) contamination is a serious threat to public health and the environment, and therefore, there is an urgent need to detect its presence in nature. The use of whole-cell reporters is an efficient, easy-to-use and low-cost approach to detect and follow contaminants outside specialized laboratories; this is especially important in oil spills that are...

Twenty freshwater eels caught in Flanders (Belgium) were analysed by GC-MS for a total of 52 VOCs. The most prominent VOCs are the BTEX and a number of chlorinated compounds such as chloroform and tetrachloroethene. The observed concentrations which, typically, were in the low ng/g wet weight range, could be linked to the major emission sources and the present study gives new evidence that comb...