Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis results obtained in the 1996 performance assessment (PA) for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) are presented for two-phase flow in the vicinity of the repository under disturbed conditions resulting from drilling intrusions. Techniques based on Latin hypercube sampling, examination of scatterplots, stepwise regression analysis, partial correlation analy...

Dynamic temporal and spatial changes of physical, chemical and spatial properties of sea ice pose many challenges to the sympagic community which inhabit a network of brine channels in its interior. Experiments were conducted to reveal the influence of the internal surface area and the structure of the network on species composition and distribution within sea ice. The surface of the brine chan...

The chemical surfactant flooding can mobilize the trapped oil by lowering the interfacial tension between oil and brine and in some cases altering the reservoir rock wettability. In this work, the effect of surfactants on oil/brine interfacial tension was experimentally investigated. First, the effect of surfactants concentration was surveyed. Afterwards, the effect of salinity on surfactant be...

Cinnamomum species have long been used as spices. The preliminary bioactive constituent’s identification and brine shrimp lethality activities of ethanolic extracts of seven Cinnamomum species viz., C. travancoricum, C. walaiwarense, C. wightii, C. verum, C. sulphuratum, C. riparium, and C. perrottetii were evaluated in this study. The results of cytotoxic activity of the bark extracts of seven...

[1] The impacts of the seasonal evolution of sea-ice physical properties on ice-ocean biogeochemical exchanges were investigated in landfast ice at Barrow (Alaska) from January through June 2009. Three stages of brine dynamics across the annual cycle have been identified based on brine salinity, brine volume fraction, and porous medium Rayleigh number (Ra). These are sea-ice bottom-layer convec...

Introduction: By analyzing the stable Cl-isotopes of halite from the Zag H-breccia and comparing the results with those from other chondritic materials we can provide new information about isotopes in the early Solar System. In particular Cl-isotope work may complement O-isotope studies. We show for the first time that substantial Cl/Cl fractionation exists between chondrite components. Zag hal...

Geophysical, temperature, and discrete depthstratified geochemical data illustrate differences between an actively venting mud volcano and a relatively quiescent brine pool in the Gulf of Mexico along the continental slope. Geophysical data, including laser-line scan mosaics and subbottom profiles, document the dynamic nature of both environments. Temperature profiles, obtained by lowering a CT...

1. Introductory Remarks 2. Evaporation Processes 3. Multi-stage Flash Desalination Process 4. Seawater Supply System 5. Seawater Recirculation System 6. Feed Water System 7. Brine Blowdown System 8. Vacuum Raising and Maintaining System 9. Brine Recirculation System 10. Anti-scale Dosing System 11. Condensate Flow from Brine Heater System 12. Distillate System 13. Plant Loading Glossary Bibliog...

The use of desalination technologies which produce concentrated brines is acutely limited by inadequate waste brine disposal mechanisms such that the brine does not contaminate fresh water resources. The treatment of highly saline brine using freeze desalination technique trade marked as HybridICE technology was investigated at pilot scale. The capacity of the HybridICE process to generate fres...

Purge-and-trap, solid-phase extraction, and solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (SPME-GC-MS) sample preparation techniques for the analysis of odor impact chemicals in fermented cucumber brine are compared. SPME-GC-MS is coupled with detection frequency olfactometry experiments to determine key impact odor compounds in the brine. The most potent odorants that define...