Background and purpose: Due to the lack of accurate statistics on the amount of waste generated in the energy production sector in Zahedan, before any planning, one should identify all waste producing centers associated with the energy sector and also the quantity and quality of their waste in Zahedan. Materials and methods: This research is a cross-sectional descriptive study. It examined the ...

To seek for new catalysts for the aquathermolysis of crude oil under relatively low temperature, in this paper, a series of Mannich base-transit metal coordination complexes was synthesized and used in aquathermolysis of heavy oil as catalyst. The results show an evident viscosity reduction by 84.2% for the heavy oil reacted at 180 C for 24 h catalyzed by the Ni(II) coordination complex. The gr...

PURPOSE To determine the interaction of heavy silicone oil with various intraocular lens (IOL) materials and whether heavy silicone oil covers the silicone IOL optic as silicone oil does. SETTING Department of Ophthalmology, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. METHODS The study group comprised 5 poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) IOLs, 4 foldable silicone IOLs, 5 foldable hydrophilic acryl...

Project Objectives. In this project, we propose to investigate the possibility of producing low-cost carbon fiber using the heavy fraction of bio-oil from fast pyrolysis of biomass. This provides a cost effective raw-material source for carbon fiber production. If successful, the outcome of the proposed research will provide valuable insights in producing low-cost carbon fiber from renewable re...

We report a draft genome sequence of Rhodococcus ruber IEGM 231, isolated from a water spring near an oil-extracting enterprise (Perm region, Russian Federation). This sequence provides important insights into the genetic mechanisms of propane and n-butane metabolism, organic sulfide and beta-sitosterol biotransformation, glycolipid biosurfactant production, and heavy metal resistance in actino...

Heavy crude oil is known as oil that is highly viscous and of a higher density than that of conventional oil. Sand reservoirs containing heavy oil generally consist of unconsolidated sediments deposited at a shallow burial depth, with high porosity and permeability. In seismic exploration, acoustic impedance inversion is a commonly used tool in reservoir prediction. However, due to the unconsol...