The city of Zarghan is located 25 km northeast of Shiraz, southern Iran. Zarghan is affected by numerous pollution sources such as oil refinery, an industrial park, and Shiraz-Tehran highway. The numerous contaminating sources around Zarghan can cause serious local air pollution. Sulfur dioxide gas is an important index of air pollution in cities. Therefore, in order to control and manage Zargh...

It is a great challenge to find efficient tools for shortterm scheduling of oil refinery processes. Although some, theoretical advancement has been made in this field, a gap between theory and applications exists. In practice, the short-term scheduling job of oil refinery processes is still done manually by planners, because of the lack of such tools. This paper briefly introduces the productio...

Palm oil mill effluent (POME) is an important source of inland water pollution when released into local rivers or lakes without treatment. In the process of palm oil milling, POME is generat‐ ed through sterilization of fresh oil palm fruit bunches, clarification of palm oil and effluent from hydro-cyclone operations [Borja et al.,1996a]. POME is a viscous brown liquid with fine suspended solid...

This research thesis validates the potential of tall oil as a renewable feedstock for the production of base-chemicals, especially olefins, as conceived in the thermo-chemical bio-refinery concept. The focus was on the use of hydrotreating and steam cracking technologies with different tall oil feedstocks. Particular advances were accomplished in terms of technology development for high yield o...

Oil terminals are widely used to store various liquids and gases. The refinery scheduling problem is one of the most challenging problems in operational research due to the complexity of the refinery scheduling operations and the corresponding process models. In this paper, we present a model by which a decision maker should be able to choose the optimal number of tanks, tank size and truck arr...

The effects of the energy crisis and rising demand have sparked development to improve efficiency in using fuel oil. According Indonesia's oil resources, increasing refinery capacity building mini refineries is essential secure local production. It more effective cost-effective construct a small with configuration starting flash unit or pre-fractionator, an atmospheric distillation unit, vacuum...