Nanocomposite coatings play a strategic role in the treatment of metal surfaces in the petroleum sector, especially steel oil transportation trucks, by providing novel materials exhibiting superior stability to various severe conditions. To confirm…
Nanocomposite coatings play a strategic role in the treatment of metal surfaces in the petroleum sector, especially steel oil transportation trucks, by providing novel materials exhibiting superior stability to various severe conditions. To confirm…
Directional self-transportation of tiny droplets is significant in many fields. However, almost all existing studies focus on the phenomenon in air, and to realize similar performance in complex environments, such as oil, is still extremely rare.…
Conversion/alloying anode materials exhibiting high K storage capacities suffer from large volume variations and unstable electrode/electrolyte interfaces upon cycling. Herein, taking SnS/reduced graphene oxide (SnS/rGO) anodes as an example, the…
The onshore Cretaceous Zululand Basin of South Africa was investigated for CO2 storage potential using NZA, ZA, ZB, and ZC boreholes drilled by Petroleum Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa in the 1960s for hydrocarbon exploration. Basin fill…
Nanostructured MgAl2O4 and TiO2 were successfully synthesized in phase pure form using well know co-precipitation method. The composites of MgAl2O4 with various concentrations of TiO2 (5 %, 10 %, 20 %, and 50 %) were prepared by vertexing technique.…
Polyethylene glycols as phase change materials (PCMs) have good latent heat storage (LHS) characteristics, but the low thermal conductivity property significantly hinders their usage potential in thermal energy storage (TES) applications. Within this…
Oil sludge (OS) has been of key concern due to its continuing effect on the environment degradation. The huge quantities thrown yearly of this waste contain a high proportion of hydrocarbons which are valuable for recovery. This study focused on the…
N-doped TiO2/ reduced graphene oxide (N/TiO2/rGO) composite was prepared and used together with the commercial TiO2 for comparative research on photocatalytic degradation of crude oil in seawater. Five test conditions were designed including a…
Efficient extraction of crude oil, the major energy resource of current concern and high demand worldwide, is of paramount importance in both energy and environmental fields. However, it remains a great challenge to separate the crude oil-in-water…
The process of obtaining titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4) from the quartz-leucoxene concentrate (QLC) from the Yaregskoe oil-titanium field was studied. The carriers of titanium in the concentrate are leucoxene grains, which are polymineral aggregates…
Oily sludge is a pollutant associated with the petrochemical industry, and its harmfulness and resource disposal are urgent problems to be solved. Nano-TiO2 was used to catalyze HTL to treat oily sludge and showed excellent technical advantages in…
The employment of dispersant was an effective method to treat marine oil spill pollution. However, conventional dispersants only showed a single oil dispersion. Here, by modifying TiO2 nanoparticles with biosurfactant-Rhamnolipids (Rha), a highly…
In this study, TiO2/SiO2/poly(acrylamide) nanocomposites (NCs) as a newly-developed-nano enhanced oil recovery (EOR) agent is proposed using a simple, green and economic method from the extract of pomegranate seeds. The ultraviolet–visible…