Spent bleaching clay from the oil refining industry was subjected to heat regeneration in a box furnace with air. The heat reactivation was conducted without previous extraction of residual oil and with previous extraction of oil using organic solvent. The experimental temperature ranged from 723 at 873 K. A model for the kinetic of thermal reactivation of spent adsorbent has been proposed. The...

One of the major challenges in petroleum industry is producing residual oil from underground. One of the major techniques for enhancing oil recovery (EOR) is using gas injection. However, gas has poor volumetric sweep efficiency, this is attributed to its high mobility which considers to be higher compared with oil and water mobility. Several techniques are proposed and applied for reducing gas...

three-phase (e.g., water, oil, and gas) flow in porous media, includcomplex than the corresponding two-phase curves. It is ing phase, global, and pseudo-global pressure-saturation formulathe complexity of these three-phase curves that complitions, are discussed in this paper. Comparisons of these differential cates the derivation of the global pressure-saturation form formulations are theoretic...

For help in preparation of this article, thanks to Austin Boyd, Gabriela Leu and Romain Prioul, Boston; Ray Kennedy, Edmonton; Patrice Ligneul, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; John McCullagh, Sugar Land, Texas, USA; Guillemette Picard, Clamart, France; Raghu Ramamoorthy, Abu Dhabi, UAE; and Alan Sibbit, Moscow. Thanks also to the participants of the May 2007 Schlumberger Wettability Workshop, Bahrain. E...

MYC overexpression is thought to initiate tumorigenesis by inducing cellular proliferation and growth and to be restrained from causing tumorigenesis by inducing cell cycle arrest, cellular senescence, and/or apoptosis. Here we show that MYC can induce DNA breaks both in vitro and in vivo independent of increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). We provide an insight into the specif...

The bed bug, (Cimex lectularius L.), is a difficult pest to control. Prevalence of insecticide resistance among bed bug populations and concerns over human-insecticide exposure has stimulated the development of alternative bed bug control materials. Many essential oil-based pesticides and detergent insecticides targeting bed bugs have been developed in recent years. We evaluated the efficacy of...

water saturation and cation exchange capacity are the most significant parameters used to calculate a hydrocarbon zone potential. in clean formations, by applying the famous archie model, which assumes that in the formation the only electric conductor is the formation water, the water saturation can be calculated. additionally, in shaly sand formations this assumption may not be true as the ion...

models the water flooding of an oil reservoir [6]. Water flooding involves the injection of water, which is immiscible with oil, into certain wells of the reservoir to force oil out at others. In this case, s = s(x, t) is the saturation of water (i.e., the volume fraction of water in the total fluid, 0 < s d 1 ), and g= g(s) is the particle velocity of the water. Consequently, since the total v...

Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation Dispersion (NMRD) is strongly sensitive to the microscopic wettability of oil and brine bearing carbonate rocks. Exploring a very large range of low frequency enables isolating the typical NMRD dispersion features, 1/T1Surf, associated to the different processes of molecular surface dynamics. This allows a separation of the surface and bulk microdynamics of oil and w...

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...