BACKGROUND Microbial oil is one important bio-product for its important function in energy, chemical, and food industry. Finding suitable substrates is one key issue for its industrial application. Both hydrophilic and hydrophobic substrates can be utilized by oleaginous microorganisms with two different bio-pathways ("de novo" lipid fermentation and "ex novo" lipid fermentation). To date, most...

The basic unit operations in vegetable oil processing are shown in Figure 4. Oil is extracted from plant material (oilseeds) using a solvent, usually hexane. Published research indicates that about 50}70% of the hexane can be recovered and recycled using nanoRltration membranes instead of the evaporators used today, thus reducing energy consumption substantially. The extracted crude oil is most...

This report analyzes the technical aspects and the economics of utilizing nuclear reactor to provide the energy needed for a Canadian oil sands extraction facility using SteamAssisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) technology. The energy from the nuclear reactor would replace the need for energy supplied by natural gas, which is currently burned at these facilities. There are a number of concerns surr...

Constraints Demand Advanced Technology Based in Long Beach, Calif., IQA Solutions (IQA) is a multidiscipline engineering firm that provides engineering and technical services for the oil and gas industry. The firm has used STAAD.foundation for foundation analysis and design work on more than 50 projects since adopting the software as a stand-alone solution about three years ago. Its benefits we...

To probe how ‘good minds’ think, I asked 16 CEOs who ran (or had been running until recently) successful oil and gas companies to read a realistic decision scenario which presented three strategic alternatives: to invest in a new technology, to explore in the Arctic in a joint venture, or to acquire another oil company. The chief executives were then asked to think out loud how they would decid...

fast pyrolysis is an attractive technology for biomass conversion, from which bio-oil is the preferred product with a great potential for use in industry and transport. corn wastes (cob and stover) and eucalyptus wood are widely being produced throughout the world. in this study, fast pyrolysis of these two materials were examined under the temperature of 500 °c; career gas flow rate of 660 l h...

Integrated operations are increasingly used in oil and gas production facilities to improve yields, reduce costs and maximize profits. They leverage information and communications technology (ICT) to facilitate collaboration between experts at widely dispersed locations. This paper discusses the safety and security consequences of implementing integrated operations for oil and gas production. I...

1Department of Applied Chemistry, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China 2Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA 3Fuels and Energy Technology Institute, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia 4Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA 5State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Pr...

1 Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Food Technology Osijek, Franje Kuhača 20, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia 2 MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Company, H-2443 Százhalombatta, P.O. Box 1, Hungary 3 Croatian Veterinary Institute Zagreb, Veterinary Department Vinkovci, Josipa Kozarca 24, HR-32100 Vinkovci, Croatia 4 Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Chemical...