The ability to prepare solid surfaces with well-controlled superhydrophobic and superoleophilic properties is of paramount importance to water-oil separation technology. Herein, we successfully prepared superhydrophobic-superoleophilic membranes by single-step deposition of polystyrene (PS) nanofibers onto a stainless steel mesh via electrospinning. The contact angles of diesel and water on the...

A stable oil emulsion rabies vaccine with a low viscosity was composed by a formula previously employed for Newcastle disease vaccine. Cattle developed high and sustained antibody levels, and guinea pigs were found to be solidly immune after a single injection of this vaccine. Antibody responses in cattle to 2 oil emulsion ephemeral fever vaccines were not satisfactory after a single injection,...

Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) is a potential technology for residual heavy oil recovery. Many heavy oil fields in Oman and elsewhere have difficulty in crude oil recovery because it is expensive due to its high viscosity. Indigenous microbes are capable of improving the fluidity of heavy oil, by changing its high viscosity and producing lighter oil fractions. Many spore-forming bacteri...

It is well known that the viscosity of fluids could vary by several orders of magnitude with pressure. This fact is not usually taken into account in many important applications involving the flow of fluids through a porous media, like the problems of enhanced oil recovery or carbon dioxide sequestration where very high pressure differentials are involved. Another important technical problem wh...

An experimental investigation of oil retention and pressure drop characteristics for R1234yf, R134a and R410A with POE 100 is presented, for horizontal and vertical suction lines of 10.2 mm internal diameter. Conditions of operation include a saturation temperature of 13 °C and a superheat of 15 °C, with the superficial vapor velocity and the Oil in Circulation Ratio (OCR) both varied in the ra...

gas injection into heavy oil reservoirs could result in high ultimate recovery of oil. experimental studies showed that an application of a combined technology of gas assisted gravity drainage (gagd) and vapor extraction (vapex) could increase final oil recovery of a candidate viscous oil reservoir. in this paper the results of laboratory investigation are presented, including pressure-volume-t...

Abstract—Five palm oil ether monoesters utilized as novel biodiesels were synthesized and structurally identified in the paper. The investigation was made on the effect of ether species on physicochemical properties of the palm oil ether monoesters. The results showed that density, kinematic viscosity, smoke point, and solidifying point increase linearly with their –CH2 group number in certain ...