Increase in energy demand, stringent emission norms and depletion of oil resources have led the researchers to find alternative fuels for internal combustion engines. On the other hand, waste oils pose a very serious environment challenge because of their disposal problems all over the world. In this context, waste oils are currently receiving renewed interest. The properties of the oil derived...

Fish waste biomasses are locally available resources which contain nutrients. Fermentation of the biomass produces slurries used for plankton production and plant/agri-nutri use. Bio-refinery of fish waste material can be converted into value added biological products such as biofuels, industrial chemicals, animal and fish feed, human food, neutraceuticals and organic fertilizer, etc. Fish proc...

Primary Effluent Treatment-Secondary Treatment (PET-SET) is refinery waste-water. PET-SET waste contains hazardous substances, namely Fe, Mn and Zn metal ions. The novelty of this research that it looks at the CaO adsorbent to reduce content Mn, from Waste-water. This research’s aimed using adsorbent. was prepared golden snail shell by previous researchers. Concentration before treatment were 8...

Caustic scrubbing is a technology that has been used for the removal of H2S and other acid species from gases in different industries for many years. Improvements in design and control strategies, favorable prices for caustic compared with other non-regenerable H2S scavenging chemicals, and the potential for sales value for the NaHS (sodium bisulfide) product have made caustic scrubbing an econ...

This thesis deals with the development of mathematical models and algorithms for optimizing refinery crude-oil operations schedules. The problem can be posed as a mixed-integer nonlinear program (MINLP), thus combining two major challenges of operations research: combinatorial search and global optimization. First, we propose a unified modeling approach for scheduling problems that aims at brid...

Problems of constructing analytical information systems and their application in controlling industrial processes at oil refining enterprise are considered. Systems being focused on control decisions support problem are regarded. Basic tasks, arising at constructing such systems and the ways to overcome them are listed. The appearance of multipurpose analytical information system (MAIS) is deve...

The problem addressed in this work is to develop a comprehensive mathematical programming model for the efficient scheduling of oil-refinery operations. Our approach is first to decompose the overall problem spatially into three domains: the crude-oil unloading and blending, the production-unit operations and the product blending and delivery. In particular, the first problem involves the crude...