Petroleum refineries discharged large amount of wastewater -during the refining processthat contains hazardous constituents that is hard to degrade. Anaerobic treatment process is well known as an efficient method to degrade high strength wastewaters. Up-flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanker (UASB) is a common process used for various wastewater treatments. Two UASB reactors were set up and operated in...

Purpose: To investigate the antitumour activity of Sesamum indicum L. Methods All the fractions of the ethanol extract of Sesamum indicum L. were obtained by solvent refining technique. Methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium (MTT) method was used to test the cytotoxicity of the extracts on four different tumour cell lines Hela, CNE-2, smmc-7721 and Kyse-410. The effect of Sesamum indicum L. on apoptosis ...

Laboratory for Petroleum and Petrochemical Process Engineering was established as a part of the Petroleum and Petrochemical Department at the Faculty of Chemical engineering and Technology and it was officially opened on July 4, 2011, within the AMACIZ scientific colloquium. The Laboratory was founded with the goal of enabling the research and development of processes treating and refining petr...

The understanding of the phylogenetic diversity, metabolic capabilities, ecological roles, and community dynamics taking place in oil reservoir microbial communities is far from complete. The interest in studying microbial diversity and metabolism in petroleum reservoirs lies mainly but not only on providing a better comprehension of biodegradation of crude oils, since it represents a worldwide...

Petroleum Allocation is an important link for the integration of Petroleum Supply Chain at PETROBRAS as it is responsible for refining the strategic supply planning information to be used at the operation levels. In this work we describe how mathematical programming is being used to solve the Petroleum Allocation Problem and we show the effectiveness of a local search method by optimization to ...

Petroleum based products are the major source of energy for industries and daily life. Leaks and accidental spills occur regularly during the exploration, production, refining, transport, and storage of petroleum and petroleum products. In the present study we isolated the bacteria from diesel contaminated soil and screened them for diesel biodegradation capacity. One monoculture isolate identi...

Zeolite Y, as a solid acid catalyst with excellent performance, is landmark in petroleum refining and chemical industry production–especially catalytic cracking reactions. Improving the SAR of Y zeolite, enriching its pore structure, modifying it heteroatoms can realize multifunctional catalysis improve application value it, then meet demands refining. In this review, synthesis zeolites high SA...