Railway transportation is playing a key role in the development of many new shale oil and gas reserves in North America. In the rush to develop new shale oil and gas plays, sites for railway transload terminals are often selected on the basis of land availability and environmental constraints before full consideration is given to rail design and operating requirements. The result can be termina...

A rotating cylindrical electrode apparatus, which provided cylindrical Couette flow, was used to simulate flow electrification in an electric power transformer. The apparatus had Shell Diala A transformer oil filling the annulus between coaxial cylindrical stainless steel electrodes that were either bare metal, or covered by a thin copper sheet and/or EHV-Weidmann HiVal pressboard insulation. E...

Accidental oil spills not only deteriorate biodiversity but also cause immediate threats to coastal environments. This study quantitatively investigates the initial dispersion of spilled using environmental fluid dynamics code (EFDC) model, loosely coupled with an endorsed spill model (MEDSLIK-II) accounting for time-dependent advection, diffusion, and physiochemical weathering surface slick. F...

Dietary fat and calcium have been found to affect significantly the proliferative status of the mammary glands. Female mice (3-week-old C57BL/6J) were given either a low or high corn oil diet (3 or 30% by weight). One, 2, or 4 weeks after the dietary intervention the animals were given injections of [3H]thymidine and/or colchicine; 2 h later their thoracic mammary glands were removed and proces...

We have investigated the protein domains responsible for the correct subcellular targeting of plant seed oleosins. We have attempted to study this targeting in vivo using "tagged" oleosins in transgenic plants. Different constructs were prepared lacking gene sequences encoding one of three structural domains of natural oleosins. Each was fused in frame to the Escherichia coli uid A gene encodin...

Traceability system has become an important means for food safety management. Global food industry and many countries have paid increasing attention to the construction of food traceability system, but rarely referred to tracing terminal. According to the technical requirements of cereal and oil products quality safety tracing process, we design and develop a mobile tracing terminal based on GP...

The paper discusses the task of optimizing oil loading into tankers, using Baku-Sufsi pipeline as an example. goal is to develop algorithm for building optimization method a tanker from terminal, which represents cost Fourier series. problem hydraulic differential equation flow terminal tankers discussed. After integration, does not have obvious solution and must be solved approximately by iter...

Oil bodies of plant seeds contain a triacylglycerol matrix surrounded by a monolayer of phospholipids embedded with alkaline proteins called oleosins. Oil bodies isolated from maize (Zea mays L.) in a medium of pH 7.2 maintained their entities but aggregated when the pH was lowered to 6.8 and 6.2. Aggregation did not lead to coalescence and was reversible with an elevation of the pH. Further de...

This article highlights our recent achievement on directing nanoparticles to selfassemble at the water/oil interface. We demonstrate that the contact angle of 90u is prerequisite for nanoparticles to localize at the interface, which is determined by the terminal groups of the capping ligands. With this peculiar surface wettability, nanoparticles of different sizes and chemical composition may s...