Drilling mud and associated drill cuttings are the largest volume wastes associated with drilling of oil and gas wells and often are discharged to the ocean from offshore drilling platforms. Barite (BaSO4) often is added as a weighting agent to drilling muds to counteract pressure in the geologic formations being drilled, preventing a blowout. Some commercial drilling mud barites contain elevat...

Abstract Barite concrete composite materials have been investigated for 252 Cf spontaneous neutron and 60 Co/ 192 Ir gamma sources’ shielding using Monte Carlo computational method. The Particle Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS) was used to compute the properties of three different (barite concrete, barite cement, aggregate) as structural walls in fixed & industrial radiography Non-De...

background: biological shielding of nuclear reactors has always been a great concern and decreasing the complexity and expense of these installations is of great interest. in this study, we used datolite and galena (daga) minerals for production of a high performance heavy concrete. materials and methods: datolite and galena minerals which can be found in many parts of iran were used in the con...

The mineral barite (BaSO4) accommodates calcium in its crystal lattice, providing an archive of Ca-isotopes in the highly stable sulfate mineral. Holocene marine (pelagic) barite samples from the major ocean basins are isotopically indistinguishable from each other (dCa = 2.01 ± 0.15&) but are different from hydrothermal and cold seep barite samples (dCa = 4.13 to 2.72&). Laboratory precipitate...

Background: Biological shielding of nuclear reactors has always been a great concern and decreasing the complexity and expense of these installations is of great interest. In this study, we used datolite and galena (DaGa) minerals for production of a high performance heavy concrete. Materials and Methods: Datolite and galena minerals which can be found in many parts of Iran were used i...

Barite is commonly found in suspended matter in ocean waters and in marine sediments. The calculation of the barite saturation index of the world’s ocean waters has shown that the vast majority of the oceans are undersaturated with respect to pure barium sulfate, equilibrium being reached at a few locations like the Southern Ocean surface waters, deep waters of the Bay of Bengal or intermediate...