Methylobacterium strains were isolated from mangrove samples collected in Bertioga, SP, Brazil, from locations either contaminated or uncontaminated by oil spills. The tolerances of the strains to different heavy metals were assessed by exposing them to different concentrations of cadmium, lead, and arsenic (0.1 mM, 0.5 mM, 1 mM, 2 mM, 4 mM, and 8 mM). Additionally, the genetic diversity of Met...

Abstract Based on the global need to efficiently eliminate highly produced amounts of sewage sludge, alternative technologies are required be practically developed. Reduction sludge waste quantities with energy recovery is most important and modern practice, least possible impact environment. Appropriate for treating disposal currently considered: incineration, gasification pyrolysis. The main ...

Bituminous sands are one of the main sources alternative energy. However, limited application this method is associated with environmental and technical problems arising from extraction oil bituminous deposits. In paper, authors propose a new environmentally friendly technology based on nanoreagents for oil. Keywords: The rock, production, method, reagent, reservoir water, washing liquid.

in the present study, the potential of a bacterial consortium of enterobacter cloacae and pseudomonas sp. (ercppi-2) for microbial enhanced oil recovery was investigated. various mechanisms of enhanced oil recovery (eor) as a result of using ercppi-2 and its metabolic products were studied in detail. the obtained results showed that under simulated reservoir conditions, interfacial tension redu...

We consider parallel computing technology for the thermal simulation of multicomponent, multiphase fluid flow in petroleum reservoirs. This paper reports the development and applications of a parallel thermal recovery simulation code. This code utilizes the message passing interface (MPI) library, overlapping domain decomposition, and dynamic memory allocation techniques. Its efficiency is inve...

Carbon dioxide flooding is considered to be one of the most effective enhanced oil recovery methods for the light oil reservoirs. Depending on the operating pressure, the process might be miscible or immiscible. Minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) is the most important parameter for assessing the applicability of any miscible gas flood for an oil reservoir. The miscibility condition is determine...

a typical iranian carbonate matrix block surrounded by an open fracture was modeled in order to understand the fracture-matrix interaction and realize how to model the interaction best. the modeling was carried out by using a fine-scaled eclipse model in the single porosity mode (the fractures were explicitly modeled). the model was extended to a stack of 6 matrix blocks to understand block-to-...

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) catastrophe had considerable impact on the ∼ 50 km long sandy beach system located along the Alabama shoreline. We present a four-year dataset to characterize the temporal evolution of various polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their alkylated homologs trapped in the residual oil buried along the shoreline. Field samples analyzed include the first arriv...

In many reservoirs, after water flooding, a large volume of oil is still left behind. Hot water injection is the most basic type of thermal recovery which increase recovery by improved sweep efficiency and thermal expansion of crude.In the present work, the effects of injection rate and the temperature of the injected water were surveyed by using core flooding apparatus. Water flooding was perf...