Modern life increases the consumption of fossil fuels leading to a decrease in natural resources. Therefore, an alternative energy sources like biowastes - food waste, agricultural municipal etc. tree edible and non-edible oily seeds; various aquatic plants were also identified as sources. In recent years, many efforts have been made determine possibility using algae source bio-oil biogas for p...

The incorporation, by wet, of 10% w/w from the mixture two solid wastes, rubber waste tires and oily petroleum sludge, in proportions 15/85% (M1) 85/15% (M2) on asphalt binder CAP 50/70 (PA-M1-10 PA-M2-10) was evaluated against unmodified binder, regarding empirical properties: apparent viscosity, flux activation energy, penetration, softening point, specific mass, adhesion to stone aggregates,...

This paper describes a novel procedure for determining the standard value of acquisition distortion of fingerprint images. Knowledge about the standard value of acquisition distortion of the fingerprint images is very important in determining the method for improving image quality. In this paper, we propose a model to determine the standard value that can be used in classifying the type of dist...

In the aftermath of oil spills in the sea, clouds of droplets drift into the seawater column and are carried away by sea currents. The fate of the drifting droplets is determined by natural attenuation processes, mainly dissolution into the seawater and biodegradation by oil-degrading microbial communities. Specifically, microbes have developed three fundamental strategies for accessing and ass...

Due to its wide range of hazardous hydrocarbons and even heavy metal ions, oily sludge has become a great environmental challenge which must be dealt with quite quickly. As a result, ther have been numerous efforts during recent years to develop an efficient method for sludge recovery. The current research studies the effectiveness of solvent extraction with toluene and Fe2O3 nanoparticles for ...

Hydrocarbons can be found in many different habitats and represent an important carbon source for microbes. As fossil fuels, they are also an important economical resource and through natural seepage or accidental release they can be major pollutants. DNA-specific stains and molecular probes bind to hydrocarbons, causing massive background fluorescence, thereby hampering cell enumeration. The c...