Oil leaks from shipwrecks can affect organisms living in the vicinity (Lindgren, 2015), but also spread to other areas through water currents (Ljungman & Mattson, 2011, Höglund 2019). Removing oil a wreck, while costly, is often far less expensive as having clean up after potential spill resulting major leak (MSIR, 2012, Etkin, 1999). These wrecks have deteriorated for decades and there lim...

Recently, research on the use of binary aqueous-organic liquid phase systems for the treatment of polluted air has significantly increased. This paper reports the removal of α-pinene from a waste air stream in a continuous stirred tank bioreactor (CSTB), using either a single-liquid aqueous phase or a mixed aqueous-organic liquid phase. The influence of gas flow rate, load and pollutant concent...

Palm oil is one of the most important agroindustries in Malaysia. Huge quantities of palm oil mill effluent (POME) pose a great threat to aqueous environment due to its very high COD. To make full use of discharged wastes, the integrated "zero discharge" pilot-scale industrial plant comprising "pretreatment-anaerobic and aerobic process-membrane separation" was continuously operated for 1 year....

On November 13, 2002, the tank ship Prestige-Nassau caused an oil spill off the coast of Galicia (northwest Spain) during a severe storm. The ship travelled first to the north and later southward, while the fuel continued to leak out. The amount of spilled oil at this point was estimated to be about 10,000 tons. The ship split in half and sunk on November 19 at the southern edge of the Galician...

In North America, investment in unconventional oil extraction has increased due to the scarcity of conventional reserves. The rapid production growth has induced an extensive transportation activity, sometimes using aging pipelines and inadequate rail tank cars. Without surprise, in recent years, several high impact oil spills have occurred, as the taken place in Lac-Mégantic, the worst terrest...

Biofiltration of hydrophobic volatile pollutants is intrinsically limited by poor transfer of the pollutants from the gaseous to the liquid biotic phase, where biodegradation occurs. This study was conducted to evaluate the potential of silicone oil for enhancing the transport and subsequent biodegradation of hexane by the fungus Fusarium solani in various bioreactor configurations. Silicone oi...

High Quality Thermostat Control by Reinforcement Learning A Case Study Martin Riedmiller Institut f ur Logik, Komplexit at und Deduktionssysteme Universit at Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany e-mail: [email protected] Abstract| Temperature control is an important issue in many manufacturing processes. The requirement for high precision, fast reaction to disturbances, time delays of varyi...

Ammonium Hydroxide production ‎unit (AHPU) is one of the widely ‎used and important units available in ‎many ‎industries such as oil gas, ‎petrochemical, power plants. In ‎this research, for first time, a ‎detailed systematic inspection ‎maintenance plan AHPU ‎is ‎determined based on ‎prioritization equipment using ‎equipment’s risk analysis. ‎Equipment’s failure ‎calculated ‎based probability ...