Recent research has shown that exposure to elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) affects how fishes perceive their environment, affecting behavioral and cognitive processes leading to increased prey mortality. However, it is unclear if increased mortality results from changes in the dynamics of predator-prey interactions or due to prey increasing activity levels. Here we demonstrate that ocean pCO2 pro...

Primary oil recovery methods in Saskatchewan’s heavy oil basin extract 5 to 10% of the available resource with the vast majority left in the ground and recoverable only through Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods. Traditional EOR generates steam in surface facilities and injects it underground to mobilize the oil for production with considerable energy losses inherent in the process. R.I.I. Nor...

Carbon dioxide is the fourth most common gas present in the earth’s atmosphere, with an average ambient concentration (in fresh air) of about 350 ppm. Carbon dioxide is one of the most common byproducts of living organisms. With every exhaled breath we produce and release CO2 into the atmosphere (with an average concentration in exhaled breath of about 3.8%). According to one USDA study, an ave...

Developing long-term carbon control strategies is important in energy intensive industries such as the oil sands operations in Alberta. We examine the use of cogeneration to satisfy the energy demands of oil sands operations in Alberta in the context of carbon management. This paper evaluates the role of cogeneration in meeting Provincial carbon management goals and discusses the arbitrary char...

Pistachio as a strategic product has a particular position among Iranian productions and is one of the most important non-oil exports after carpet. In this study, after primary processing such as dehulling, washing, drying and roasting, pistachio nuts were packed in four different atmospheres including N2, CO2, vacuum and ambient air. Storage temperatures were 20 C and 40 C for a 12 month perio...

This study is on the reuse of the residue generated by a Moringa oleifera oil extraction plant. The residual oil cake produced during the process of oil extraction retains the positively charged protein of the M. oleifera seed, which is the active component in the process of 15 attracting and capturing suspended particles in waters. Such coagulant–flocculant properties give rise to the eliminat...

we studied the antioxidant activities of the essential oils of zataria multiflora boiss. (zeo) and bunium persicum (boiss.) b. fedtsch (beo) in mixed form on linseed oil using (dpph•), ­(­abts•+), h2o2 scavenging, and reducing power assays. after calculation of ic50 for zeo and beo separately, interactions of the essential oils were investigated at the form of mixture and the results were given...

Fossil fuels constitute a major energy resource for Canada. In 2002 alone, the production of oil, gas and coal contributed over $30 billion to the Canadian economy. Fossil fuel is presently the world’s most abundant, economical and reliable fuel for energy production. However, the industry now faces a major challenge because the production of fossil fuels including coal, crude oil and gas, and ...

It has been proposed that the CO2 produced at sources such as fossil energy conversion facilities and industrial process plants could be captured, compressed to supercritical pressures, transported via pipelines and stored in underground geologic formations such as depleted oil and natural gas reservoirs and deep saline aquifers. In this paper, we describe the initial phases of a project using ...