Wastewater from the yeast production industry (WWY) is potentially harmful to surface water due its high nitrogen and organic matter content; it can be used produce compounds of higher commercial value, such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA). PHA are polyester-type biopolymers synthesized by bacteria energy reservoirs that substitute petrochemical-derived plastics. In this exploratory work, efflue...

Process plants such as petrochemical units have been continuously trying to improve Health, Safety, Environment and Ergonomics (HSEE) programs. This study proposes an adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) for assessment of HSEE programs in a petrochemical plant. The proposed neuro-fuzzy approach is applied to a set of operators in the petrochemical unit to show its applicability...

The petrochemical industry is a large and complex industry that contributes heavily in the economy of many Middle-East countries. It is an industry that needs strategies for different aspects of planning and production. This work presents the main strategies that must be considered for the petrochemical industry together with the corresponding tools. The strategies are presented in the field of...

As oil and gas reserves become depleted, producers are increasingly driven to process difficult or unconventional petrochemical fuel sources to sell to the market in order to meet rising demand. One such source is the production of sour gas wells that contain high levels of mercaptan (thiol) species. In sour gas processing applications, a waste acid gas stream (ie. a stream containing high conc...

1 Department of Information & Communication Systems, Hohai University, Changzhou 213022, China 2Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Equipment Fault Diagnosis, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming 525000, China 3 School of Information Science & Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China 4Changzhou Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic System Integra...

After an earthquake, the fire risk of petrochemical enterprises is higher than that of other enterprises as it involves production processes with inflammable and explosive characteristics. Using Chinese petrochemical enterprises as the research object, this paper uses a literature review and case summaries to study, amongst others, the classification of petrochemical enterprises, the proportion...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this retrospective cohort study was to investigate the relationship between exposure of Korean workers to petrochemicals in the refinery/petrochemical industry and lymphohematopoietic cancers. METHODS The cohort consisted of 8,866 male workers who had worked from the 1960s to 2007 at one refinery and six petrochemical companies located in a refinery/petrochemical com...

Phenol in industrial effluent is a major under-reported pollutant of concern to the aquatic ecosystem. In current study, was obtained from Eleme Petrochemical Limited, Rivers State Nigeria. Baseline analyses were conducted ascertain physico-chemical and microbiological parameters. Exogenous bacterial species isolated crude oil polluted Ogoniland. The inoculum standardized using MacFarland appro...