BACKGROUND Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are human-made chemicals widely spread in the environment and produced by petrochemical industries and petroleum refineries. The aim of this research was to evaluate the distribution of VOCs in the ambient air of Mahshahr Petrochemical Complex, Iran. METHODS This study was a cross-sectional research performed in 2009. We used the method numbered 15...

conclusions experimental results showed that mcns is an excellent sorbent for removal of mercury ions from petrochemical waste water. in addition, highly complex matrix of this waste does not affect the adsorption capability of mcns. results an effective hg (ii) removal (99.8%) was obtained at ph 6, with 50 mg of mcns for an initial concentration of this ion in petrochemical waste water (5.63 m...

Application of aromatic compounds has dramatically increased as raw materials in various industries and different factories have been established to produce aromatic compounds. The current research aims at characterizing industrial waste generation in aromatics production process in petrochemical industries and determining the best feasible alternative for waste disposal. For this purpose, the ...

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...

Department of Informatics and Operations Management, Kingston Business School, Kingston University, Kingston Hill, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey KT2 7LB, UK Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA Department of Industrial Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Department of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Tec...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spmi.2015.03.060 0749-6036/ 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Mechanical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Ave Box 15875-4413, Tehran, Iran. Tel.: +98 (24)33054142. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Z. Shomali), [email protected] (J. Ghazanfarian), abbassi@au Abbassi). Zahra Shomali ...

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