Assessing bio‐oil co‐processing routes as CO 2 mitigation strategies in oil refineries

assessing metacognitive awareness and learning strategies as positive predictors in promoting l2 learners’ reading comprehension

the purpose of this thesis was to investigate how differently metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective strategies affect l2 learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, the study employed a quasi-experimental design with a placement test as a proficiency test to find the homogeneity of groups. three classes were randomly selected as the experimental groups (n =90), and each class was tau...

A Review on Crude Oil Fouling and Mitigation Methods in Pre-heat Trains of Iranian Oil Refineries

Crude oil fouling of the equipment surfaces is a troublesome issue which leads to operating difficulties, economic penalties, increased environmental impacts, and health and safety hazards in petroleum industry. With a rough estimation, a minimum cost of equal to 4 million barrels of oil/year is required to be invested to offset the costs of crude oil fouling in Pre-heat Trains of Iranian oil r...

Hydrogen Detection in Oil Refineries

Supply and Demand Planning for Crude Oil Procurement in Refineries

The upstream petroleum supply chain is inefficient and uneconomical because of the independence of the four complex and fragmented functions which comprise it. Crude oil exploration, trading, transportation, and refining are functions which may be integrated through unified decision-making facilitated by timely information exchange. This exchange has been problematic because the four business u...

Ecological modeling as a scientific tool for assessing eutrophication and mitigation strategies for Belgian coastal waters

The role of model simulation in understanding system complexity and in decision-making is nowadays recognized. Models offer the ability to test conceptual understanding of how components of a given system are linked, and to simulate complex biogeochemical interactions in a quantifiable and repeatable manner. Modeling, however, is useful only if new insights subsequently lead to validation or re...