A wide range of chemicals present in day-to-day life, including petroleum products, petrochemicals, surfactants, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, medicines, household products, food additives, agricultural run-off, by-products of farming, industrial wastes, etc., are released into the environment in large quantities. However, very little information is available about their effects on living and no...

background heat, chemical and organic pollution are three types of environmental pollution, caused by refinery and petrochemical industries. problems caused by hear and chemical pollutants are currently resolved to some extent but organic pollution such as poly aromatic hydrocarbons (pahs) are still considered as important problems of industry and environment. objectives a laboratory study was ...

The world's increasingly voracious appetite for fossil fuels is driven by fast-growing populations and ever-rising aspirations for the lifestyles and standard of living exemplified in the developed world. Forecasts for higher electricity consumption, more comfortable living environments (via heating or cooling) and greater demand for transport fuels are well known. Similar growth in demand is p...

Introduction Modeling and simulation is nowadays a standard tool in the toolbox of many workers in the different fields of applied sciences. In The Netherlands several hundreds of modelers are involved in modelling for water management. But modelling might be a routinely applied method to investigate problems, it is not straightforward, but rather subjective, depending on the modelling team and...

the petrochemical industry is the most important and most widely active industries in the country. due to the variety and complexity of industrial products, it also produces a wild range of pollutants. mercury waste disposal from chlor-alkali units is one of the fundamental problems of this industry. various studies have shown that phytoremediation system for removal of mercury from aqueous sol...