The rapid increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations the last several decades means that effects of climate change are fast becoming familiar horsemen a planetary apocalypse. Catalysis, one pillars chemical and petrochemical industries, will play critical role effort to reduce flow gases into atmosphere. This Special Issue is timely, as it provides collection high-quality manuscrip...

The article discusses the prospects for purification of industrial wastewater from phenols in oil refining, petrochemical and chemical industries with production waste. technological scheme treatment by modified carbonate sludge is given. In technologies, it proposed to use a large-tonnage energy waste - sludge. paper considers technology granulation, its characteristics are studied. To evaluat...

Brines produced by desalination processes such as reverse osmosis (RO), electrodialysis reversal (EDR) and ion-exchange (IX) holds pollution potential for the water environment if not properly handled. These brines contain a high water content (95–98%) and chemicals that could possibly be recovered for reuse. Therefore, direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) which has the potential for wat...

D ecision-making for planning a petrochemical industry is a difficult task, particularly when decisions are required to be made under constraints and different objectives. This paper presents the application of multiobjective optimization tools for planning of a mixed-integer model of a petrochemical industry to arrive at a small set of good solutions out of the Pareto optimal solutions. The tw...

The potential of using Effective Microorganisms (EM) to purify waste water, including that of a sewage system, for recycling purposes was evaluated. The studies were extended to examine the potential of using treated sewage sludge as a fertilizer in crop production. Long term application of EM reduced the adverse characteristics of waste water. The quality of the treated water was high, which i...

Residential domestic hot water (DHW) energy consumption represented 16% of the EU household heating demand in 2013. Due to the improvement of the building envelop, it is expected to increase significantly, with values between 20% to 32% in single family buildings, and between 35% to almost 50% in multifamily buildings. Currently, this energy is lost to the environment after its use, but it can ...

in petrochemical industry, the production of polyvinyl chloride (pvc) is accompanied by formation of heavy end wastes which consist of a mixture of di and multichloro compounds as kind of materials which are generated in ethylene dichloride (edc) purifcation. a high quantity of chloro compounds found in the heavy end waste allows it to be polymerized with alkaline polysulfdes to form polysulfde...