BACKGROUND Occupational exposure to nickel (Ni) is associated with an increased risk of lung and nasal cancers. Ni compounds exhibit weak mutagenic activity, alter the cell's epigenetic homeostasis, and activate signaling pathways. However, changes in gene expression associated with Ni exposure have only been investigated in vitro. This study was conducted in a Chinese population to determine w...

Refinery sludge is one of the major industrial wastes that needs to be handled and treated . Therefore, this study aim to investigate the Kinetics of devolatilization and oxidation of the refinery sludge collected from a typical petroleum refinery plant located in Malaysia . Thermo Gravimetric Analyzer (TGA) was used in this study for modeling of the devolatilization and oxidation processes in ...

Tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) and house wren (Troglodytes aedon) eggs and chicks were collected near a refinery site on the North Platte River, Casper. Wyoming, USA and at a reference site 10 km upstream. Total polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) concentrations in swallow and wren chicks were higher at the refinery site than at the reference site. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentr...

Scheduling of crude oil operations is an important and complex routine task in a refinery. It involves crude oil unloading, tank allocation, storage and blending of crudes, and CDU charging. Optimal crude oil scheduling can increase profits by exploiting cheaper but poor quality crudes, minimizing crude changeovers, avoiding ship demurrage, and managing crude inventory optimally. In our previou...

The use of biolubricants as an alternative to petroleum-based products has played important role in the last decade. Due encouragement global policies, which mainly support green chemistry and circular economy, there been increasing interest bio-based products, including biolubricants, from scientific industrial points view. Their raw materials, production, characteristics might vary, present d...

Network management often relies on machine learning to make predictions about performance and security from network traffic. Often, the representation of traffic is as important choice model. The features that model on, those features, ultimately determine accuracy, well where whether can be deployed in practice. Thus, design evaluation these models requires understanding not only accuracy but ...

Environmental pollution consists of different types of pollutants in air, soil, and water. Due to the fact that plants can respond to environmental pollution, they can be used as bio-indicators for environmental monitoring. Air pollution in areas with oil and gas refineries nearby is an important problem. This study aims to survey the effects of gas refinery air pollutants on Conocarpus erectus...

Using second-generation biomass and biofuel deal with environmental pollution and CO2 emissions. Therefore, this paper design an integrated multi-period bi-objective biofuel supply chain network using support vector machine (SVM) and economic analysis to reduce the cost of generating biofuels and CO2 emissions. The economic analysis consists of three scenarios for supplyin...