The chemical and petrochemical industries produce a wide variety of products that are essential for modern industrialized societies. Chemicals are the building blocks for products that meet fundamental needs for food, health, and consumer products. Chemicals are also essential to wide range of industries such as pharmaceuticals, automobiles, textiles, furniture, paint, paper, electronics, agric...

China's petroleum refining industry has set off another climax and entered a new rapid development by building seven petrochemical bases. Sector-based volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from the in petrochemical-developed provinces China were estimated for 1990–2019 projected 2020–2030 under business-as-usual (BAU), policy control (NPC), highest (HC) scenarios. Furthermore, speciated VOC...

The spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a growing problem and a public health issue. In recent decades, various genetic mechanisms involved in the spread of resistance genes among bacteria have been identified. Integrons - genetic elements that acquire, exchange, and express genes embedded within gene cassettes (GC) - are one of these mechanisms. Integrons are widely distributed, especia...

Zirconia (ZrO2) membranes experienced rapid progress in applications demanding high-stability own to their higher chemical resistance and hydrophilicity compared silica alumina. Moreover, ZrO2 have increased fouling resistance, high permeability, a long lifetime making them broadly applied drinking water production, wastewater treatment, petrochemical, food, beverages industries. However, fabri...

The resource intensive human activities (such as mining and extraction of mineral oils for betterment of life and modernization of society) have increased environmental pollution several folds. Products of mining and petrochemical industries are advantageous for the modern society. But waste generated such as BTEX from such industries are carcinogenic, toxic and causes adverse effects on enviro...

The world's increasingly voracious appetite for fossil fuels is driven by fast-growing populations and ever-rising aspirations for the lifestyles and standard of living exemplified in the developed world. Forecasts for higher electricity consumption, more comfortable living environments (via heating or cooling) and greater demand for transport fuels are well known. Similar growth in demand is p...