Injecting and storing of carbon dioxide (CO2) in deep geologic formations is considered as one of the promising approaches for geologic carbon storage. Microbial wettability alteration of injected CO2 is expected to occur naturally by microorganisms indigenous to the geologic formation or microorganisms intentionally introduced to increase CO2 storage capacity in the target reservoirs. The ques...

Sea ice is a translucent material with an intricate structure and complex optical properties. Understanding the reflection, absorption, and transmission of shortwave radiation by sea ice is important to a diverse array of scientific problems, including those in ice thermodynamics and polar climatology. Radiative transfer in sea ice is a combination of absorption and scattering. Differences in t...

The paper presents the results of experimental data obtained in brine, the coefficients of diffusion, the mathematical model and ambassador calculated optimal values of fish salting uniform layer of a certain thickness in brine. Studied modes production canned food smoked fish with a low-temperature heat treatment of semi-finished product. Developed are optimal modes for infrared smoke generators.

Currently, seawater flushing is the only management strategy for reducing the number of viable organisms in residual sediments and water of ballast tanks of vessels declaring no ballast on board (NOBOB) that traffic ports of the eastern United States. Previously, we identified several species of freshwater and brackish-water peracarid crustaceans able to survive the osmotic shock that occurs du...

in the present study, aqueous solutions of some copper-complexing ligands were screened for their cytotoxicity using brine shrimp lethality test. among the ligands tested, diacetyl-bis(n4-methylthiosemicarbazones) (atsm) proved to be the most safe and non-toxic compound (2% lethality at 10 ppm), while pyruvaldehyde bis(n4-methyl)thiosemicarbazone (ptsm) was shown to possess low toxicity (7% let...

Mitochondria isolated from cysts of Artemia salina (brine shrimp) were found to be devoid of cristae and to possess a low respiratory capability. Hydration of the cysts induces marked biochemical and morphological changes in the mitochondria. Their biogenesis proceeds in two stages. The first stage is completed within 1 h and is characterized by a rapid increase in the respiratory capability of...

Geological carbon dioxide storage must be designed such that the CO2 cannot escape from the rock formation into which it is injected, and often simple stratigraphic trapping is insufficient. CO2 can be trapped in the pore space as droplets surrounded by water through capillary trapping. X-ray microtomography was used to image, at a resolution of 6.6 m, the pore-scale arrangement of these drople...

Chalk reservoirs, due to their high storage capacity and very low permeability, are one of the most interesting cases for reservoir engineering research on carbonates. They exhibit complex fluid-rock interactions because chemically active porous media. This study investigates effect brine composition, injection scenario, temperature oil recovery by salinity water-flooding in chalk core samples ...

Introduction: Mineralogical studies have demonstrated that the nakhlite SNC meteorites have preserved the effects of water-rock interaction between a hydrothermal brine and the nakhlite parent rocks on Mars. Brittle fracturing and corrosion of olivine grains and mesostasis associated with the hydrothermal event have left veins of zoned Fe-carbonate, Fe-smectite (with minor serpentine), and an a...