Figure 1: MoS2 layered structure. As the world economy continues to expand the demand for petroleum based fuel increases and the price of these fuels rises. The rising price of fuel has another consequence: refiners tend to purchase cheaper fuels of poorer quality. These poor quality fuels contain increasing amounts of sulfur and other pollutants leading to a decline in air quality worldwide. A...

Population growth has created an expanding gap between the supply and demand of both energy and chemicals. Nonrenewable fossil sources, such as coal, natural gas, and petroleum, are the source of nearly 86% of the world’s energy and 96% of its organic chemicals. Diminishing reserves of these sources, rising atmospheric CO2 levels, and socioeconomic concerns require a reduction of our dependence...

Replacing a portion of current light duty vehicles (LDV) with plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) offers the possibility to reduce the dependence on petroleum fuels together with environmental and economic benefits. The charging activity of PHEVs will certainly introduce new load to the power grid. In the framework of the development of a smarter grid, the primary focus of the present stud...

Oil plays a vital role in the economic growth and sustainability of industries their corporations. The current study sought to forecast oil demand Ghana for next decade. variables analyzed this were Petroleum other liquids, motor gasoline, distillate fuel, liquefied petroleum gases (LPG). utilized three univariate models; thus, linear regression, exponential smoothing forecasting various compon...

An oil spill is the accidental or intentional discharge of petroleum products into the environment due to human activities. Although oil spills are actually just a little percent of the total world oil pollution problem, they represent the most visible form of it. The impact on the ecosystems can be severe as well as the impact on economic activities. Oil spill cleanup is a very difficult and e...

organization’s obligation for responding to demand changes and creating strategic opportunity, drives focus toward entrepreneurship, so that scholars’ attention turns toward influential factors on entrepreneurship more and more. the objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of human resource flexibility on entrepreneurship at research institute of petroleum industry (ripi). research ...

Petroleum industries are large water consumers and generate a lot of wastewater at various stages industrial operations. Wastewater from the petroleum contain recalcitrant pollutants such as hydrocarbons that present in high concentrations, dissolved solids sulfur compounds can pose potential environmental threat. Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) known to be sustainable processes treat kinds w...

List of Abbreviations CIIAPTER ONE General Introduction Pollution of Saudi Arabian soil with crude oil Chemistry and biodegradability of petroleum hydrocarbon Environmental fate of petroleum Factors influencing petroleum hydrocarbon biodegradation Distribution of petroleum-utilizing microorganisms in the environment Biological degradation of petroleum hydrocarbon Bacterial degradation of oil Fu...

this research studies the application of hybrid algorithms for predicting the prices of crude oil. brent crude oil price data and hybrid intelligent algorithm (time delay neural network, probabilistic neural network, and fuzzy logic) were used to build intelligent decision support systems for predicting crude oil prices. the proposed model was able to predict future crude oil prices from august...