Petroleum hydrocarbons are a toxic pollutant group, primarily including volatile organic compounds (VOC), semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOC) and non-volatile organic compounds (NVOC). These pollutants can be accumulated on urban roads during dry…
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill from April to July of 2010 contaminated Gulf of Mexico waters through release of an estimated 4.1 106 barrels of oil. Beginning in June of 2010, semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs) were deployed near areas…
Abstract: The use of coal pitch as a binder in anode production for the aluminum industry is an outdated approach. Such pitch has a high content of carcinogens, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and tar phenols, and its environmental impact is…
Oil spills in the subarctic marine environment off the coast of Labrador, Canada, are increasingly likely due to potential oil production and increases in ship traffic in the region. To understand the microbiome response and how nutrient…
Biochar has been widely applied for the remediation of petroleum-contaminated soil. However, the effect of biochar on the transport of petroleum degradation bacteria has not been studied. A typical Gram-positive petroleum degradation…
With the present energy scenario, the oil companies are persuading to exploit crude oil resources with high viscosity and an extreme chemical composition which makes production and transportation complex. The rheology of crude oil is related to the…
Petroleum refinery has been developed for production of transportation fuel with light alkenes and benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (abbreviated BTEX), but global market demands are shifting to chemicals produced from light alkenes and…
On-site wastewater treatment systems are gaining popularity in areas where centralized wastewater treatment is not available. In the current case study a domestic activated sludge system was investigated, where treated effluent was stored in a…
1 Scope This document specifies a test method for the determination of the content of mono-aromatic, di-aromatic and tri+-aromatic hydrocarbons in diesel fuels, paraffinic diesel fuels and petroleum distillates. This document defines two procedures,…
Photoproducts can be formed rapidly in the initial phase of a marine oil spill. However, their toxicity is not well understood. In this study, oil was irradiated, chemically characterized, and tested for toxicity in three copepod species (Acartia…
Currently, research on oily sludge treatment mainly focuses on optimizing the deoiling effect and research on the deoiling mechanism, and the influence of petroleum components on the properties and treatment of oily sludge is rarely considered.…
The role of archipelago asphaltene structure in the reactions of petroleum asphaltenes was investigated by comparing yields of products from the conversion of archipelago-rich heavy oils and bitumen to the yields from a sample with predominant…
The primary migration of petroleum has been recently described in detail for a thermally mature core of the Barnett Shale with almost nonvariant organofacies and maturity. Here, we use samples from the same well to provide new insights into the…
Close examination of surface interactions between calcite and crude oil is relevant to better understand the mechanisms that lead to wettability changes in petroleum reservoirs. Mineral surface wettability is a determinant factor in petroleum…
Microbial community shifts of a freshwater wetland with crude oil pressure were investigated fully as a function of cultivation time, using the enrichment procedure and high-throughput sequencing. Bacterial structures and biodegradation capabilities…
In order to gain insight into the human health implications of the Hebei Spirit Oil Spill (HSOS), the mechanism of toxicity of the Iranian heavy crude (IHC), the main oil component in the HSOS was investigated in Caenorhabditis elegans and zebrafish.…
The effects of petroleum aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on the embryonic and larval life stages of teleosts have been extensively examined. However, very little work has been conducted on how spilled oil affects fish sperm and there is no related…
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) present in crude oil can cause global gene dysregulation and developmental impairment in fish. However, the mechanisms that alter gene regulation are not well understood. In this study, larval red drum…
Marine food webs are particularly vulnerable to oil spills if keystone species are impacted. To quantify lethal and sublethal toxicity in a key Holarctic forage fish, capelin embryos were exposed to Hibernia crude oil water accommodated fraction…
We developed a novel methodology that combines thermo-analytical measurements and mathematical methods to inform the reliable pyrolytic treatment of specific soil/contaminant systems. Our approach improves upon current "black-box" design methods that…
Abstract: The photochemical stability of resins and asphaltenes during their photolysis under the influence of radiation from a mercury lamp is investigated by IR spectroscopy. It is found that exposure to UV light leads to a change in the band…
Numerous studies of the water-soluble fraction (WSF) from crude oil have concluded that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the primary causative agents for early life stage (ELS) fish toxicity. Noteworthy is the lack of studies demonstrating…
Hydrocarbon biodegradation may be slower in cold Arctic than in temperate seawater, and this will affect the toxicity time window of the hydrocarbons. In this study, the acute toxicities of water-soluble phases of 1,3-dimethylnaphthalene,…
Despite intensive research carried out on particulates, correlation between engine-out particulate emissions and adverse health effects is not well understood yet. Particulate emissions hold enormous significance for mega-cities like Delhi that have…
The aim of this study is to investigate the detailed soot formation characteristics of crude Jatropha oil (CJO) and heavy fuel oil (HFO) blends (lower heating value (LHV) basis: 50%/50%) in a 550 kW-class combustion test furnace equipped with an…
A bacterial consortium, constructed from the oil contaminated soil, mainly consisting of Pseudomonas sp., together with fertilizing, rice husk application, and plowing, was used for the field in situ bioremediation of oil contaminated site in…
Local aerosol composition impacts human health, as toxicity depends on particle concentration, composition, and size. We have thus studied local aerosol composition in University Park, PA from SeptemberNovember of 2014 and 2015 to determine the…
Oil spills in the subarctic marine environment off the coast of Labrador, Canada, are increasingly likely due to potential oil production and increases in ship traffic in the region. To understand the microbiome response and how nutrient…
Chemical herders may be used to sequester and thicken surface oil slicks to increase the time window for performing in situ burning of spilled oil on the sea surface. For herder use to be an environmentally safe oil spill response option, information…
Sorption of organic pollutants on microplastics can be an alternative uptake route for organic pollutants in aquatic organisms. To assess the combined effects of microplastics and organic pollutants, we employed phenotypic and transcriptomic analyses…
Oil spill events in the marine environment can have a deleterious impact on the affected ecosystems, such as coral reefs, with direct consequences for their socioeconomic value. The mutualistic relationship between tropical corals and their…
Crude oil is known to induce developmental defects in teleost fish exposed during early life stages (ELSs). While most studies in recent years have focused on cardiac endpoints, evidence from whole-animal transcriptomic analyses and studies with…
The characterization, occurrence, fate and behaviour of spilled oil in the affected boreal freshwater ecosystem were investigated in this study following a spill in March 2015, in Gogama, Ontario, Canada. A physicochemical property analysis of the…
Oil degradation by surface-level atmospheric ozone has been largely ignored in the field. To address this knowledge gap, this study investigated the ozonation rate and extent of typical petroleum compounds by simulated surface-level ozone, including…
Carbazole (CA) and alkylated carbazoles are common nitrogen-containing heterocyclic aromatic compounds widely found in crude oils and sedimentary rocks extracts. Their geochemical significances in petroleum exploration have been widely investigated…
The composition of petroleum hydrocarbons in oily sludge is complex, and it is difficult to reveal the interaction between components in the pyrolysis process only by the macroscopic analysis results of products. Five compounds, namely n-dodecane,…
Petroleum hydrocarbons are a toxic pollutant group, primarily including volatile organic compounds (VOC), semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOC) and non-volatile organic compounds (NVOC). These pollutants can be accumulated on urban roads during dry…
Biochar has been widely applied for the remediation of petroleum-contaminated soil. However, the effect of biochar on the transport of petroleum degradation bacteria has not been studied. A typical Gram-positive petroleum degradation…
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) categorizes "oil sludge" as a hazardous waste that is subject to hazardous waste handling rules. The oil sludge may contain many different compositions. The challenge is that these sludges cannot be…
Unraveling the accumulation and alteration process of reservoired petroleum is significant for the evaluation of petroleum potential. In this study, a paleo heavy oil from the TD2 well in the eastern Tarim Basin was investigated through integrated…
Rapid degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons by chemical oxidation is currently facing lots of environmental concerns, and green activation methods are highly needed. This study investigated the degradation of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs),…
Chemical herders may be used to sequester and thicken surface oil slicks to increase the time window for performing in situ burning of spilled oil on the sea surface. For herder use to be an environmentally safe oil spill response option, information…
Crude oil is known to induce developmental defects in teleost fish exposed during early life stages (ELSs). While most studies in recent years have focused on cardiac endpoints, evidence from whole-animal transcriptomic analyses and studies with…
The characterization, occurrence, fate and behaviour of spilled oil in the affected boreal freshwater ecosystem were investigated in this study following a spill in March 2015, in Gogama, Ontario, Canada. A physicochemical property analysis of the…
Formation and accumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are responsible of major topical issues related to the conversion of petroleum vacuum gas oils (VGOs) in transportation fuels through hydrocracking process. To achieve an efficient…
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) represent one of the major toxic pollutants associated with PM2.5 with significant human health and climate effects. Because of local and long-range transport of atmospheric PAHs to receptor sites, higher…
With the wide-scale use of exhaust gas cleaning systems (scrubbers) by ships and the associated scrubber washwater discharge, there is growing concern regarding the risk of the marine environment posed by scrubber washwater, especially for the…
Oil and derivatives are essential to supply human demand for energy. Despite the significant increase in security measures to avoid accidental spills, the impacts of these pollutants to the aquatic environment are still substantial. It is therefore…
There is a growing awareness that transient, sublethal embryonic exposure to crude oils cause subtle but important forms of delayed toxicity in fish. While the precise mechanisms for this loss of individual fitness are not well understood, they…