The non-thermal plasma pyrolysis of fuel oil, under the action low-voltage electric discharges in liquid phase, has made it possible to develop a new process obtain valuable petrochemical products. In this study, main parameters, including pulse energy and time impact on process, are studied. components obtained gaseous products hydrogen (27.6–49.6 mol%), acetylene (33.6–49.1 ethylene (6.9–12.1...

The potato processing industry is among the biggest water-consuming industries, using an average of 17 L water per 1 kg processed product. Taking into account that fourth-most-important non-cereal food crop with a global production 376 million tons year, this branch large wastewater producer. Potato-processing highly loaded and thus difficult to treat through conventional methods, especially wh...

Hydrocarbons are prone to bacterial and fungal contamination. Bacteria and fungi live and proliferate in water droplets within the fuels and on surfaces surrounding them. This can cause corrosion in oil exploration and production, clogging of fuel lines in aviation and higher emissions in diesel combustion engines to state few examples. State-of-the-art is the addition of biocides to fuels, whi...

Background: Iran is located in the seventh rank in terms of CO2 emissions resulting from the fuel combustion in the world. Gas compressor booster stations, due to the several sources of contaminants, are causing the release of large amounts of CO2 and CH4, which will cause climate change therefore, estimating the emissions of the gases from oil and gas, different processing units are necessary....

Regional and global air pollution emissions from marine transportation is a growing concern. In discerning the sources of such pollution, researchers have become interested in tracking where along the total fuel cycle these emissions occur. In addition, new efforts to introduce alternative fuels in marine vessels have raised new questions about the energy use and environmental impacts of such f...

Assessment of gamma emission tomography (GET) for spent nuclear fuel verification is the task in IAEA MSP project JNT1955. In line with IAEA Safeguards R&D plan 2012-2023, the aim of this effort is to “develop more sensitive and less intrusive alternatives to existing NDA instruments to perform partial defect tests on spent fuel assemblies prior to transfer to difficult to access storage". The ...

In order to investigate a PROX microreactor performance, two-dimensional modeling of the reacting flow between two parallel plates is performed through a finite volume method using an improved SIMPLE algorithm. A three-step surface kinetics including hydrogen oxidation, carbon monoxide oxidation and water-gas shift reaction is applied for a Pt-Fe/γ-Al2O3 catalyst and operating temperatures of a...