present research was conducted with the aim of determination of significant effect of soil properties on natural regeneration of haloxylon aphyllum and correlation coefficient and linear relation between soil variables and natural regeneration of haloxylon aphyllum. firstly, geomorphologic units were prepared in the areas under cultivation of haloxylon aphyllum in ardestan. two cultivated lands...

Building on the principles of structure-oriented lumping (SOL), chemistry-oriented lumping methods have been developed to describe the composition in tandem with the hydro-processing chemistry of heavy oils such as vacuum residue, de-asphalted oil, tar and bitumen. Recent advances in analytical chemistry have provided the necessary fundamental insights that are required to develop such models. ...

Understanding bacterial community dynamics as a result of an oil spill is important for predicting the fate of oil released to the environment and developing bioremediation strategies in the Gulf of Mexico. In this study, we aimed to elucidate the roles of temperature, water chemistry (nutrients), and initial bacterial community in selecting oil degraders through a series of incubation experime...

Oil-water emulsion flow behaviour was characterized with respect to surface chemistry. A state of the art stirred tank experimental set up was constructed that measured dynamic droplet size evolution with varying impeller speed. This technique was demonstrated with model Nexbase oil (with and without SPAN 80 surfactants) and water emulsions. Further, a CFD model for droplet size prediction was ...

Institute of Chemistry for Functionalized Materials, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, People’s Republic of China, Department of Chemistry, Tonhua Normal University, Tonghua 134002, People’s Republic of China, and Heavy Oil Company, Liaohe Petroleum Filiale, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Shiyou Street No. 96, Panjin 124010, ...

The yield of steam distillation of frankincense essential oil (3%); and its physicochemical constants were determined. Capillary GC/MS technique was used for the analysis of the oil. Several oil components were identified based upon comparison of their mass spectral data with those of reference compounds published in literature or stored in a computer library. The oil was found to contain monot...