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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"oil refining"”.
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Technology transfer in the palm oil refining industry of Malaysia
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 1982.
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Strategic Funding of Emission Reducing Projects of a Crude Oil Refining Plant
… funding of emission-reducing projects of a crude oil refining plant. This economic model utilizes mathematical optimization of profits as the justification for funding projects. The optimization method finds justification for the minimization of operating cost and, more specifically, the …
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Energy efficiency in the South Africa crude oil refining industry drivers, barriers and opportunities
… energy performance in the South African crude oil refining industry, thus providing information to further support energy efficiency improvement efforts. Energy efficiency is a cost effective means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs, bringing additional quality and production …
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Exploring the socio-economic role of the petroleum refining industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo : a case study of the Congolese Company of Oil Refining Industries (SOCIR)
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Masters: Public Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, south Africa, 2017.
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Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for renewable production of plastic precursor chemicals from plant biomass
… produced from feedstocks derived from crude oil refining and natural gas processing. Despite the increasing awareness of the negative environmental and climate-related impacts associated with fossil fuel consumption, the relevance of fossil fuels has held steady as a result of the recent …
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The effect of activation on the deactivation of a precipitated iron based catalyst
… sulphur emissions without further processing. Oil refineries producing diesel fuel on the other hand would have to invest $4-13 billion to meet the proposed sulphur content requirements. Also, Fischer-Tropsch processes using coal as a feedstock could become and attractive alternative to oil …
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Multi-Point Flux Approximations via the O-Method
<p>When an oil refining company is drilling for oil, much of the oil gets left behind after the first drilling. Enhanced oil recovery techniques can be used to recover more of that oil, but these methods are quite expensive. When a company is deciding if it is worth their time and money to use …
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Extraction and Purification of Gamma-Tocotrienol from Rice Bran Oil Deodorizer Distillate
… radiation effects in mice. During rice bran oil refining up to 90% of tocols in rice bran are lost to the deodorizer distillate. The objective of this study was to optimize parameters for analyzing and isolating tocols from rice bran oil deodorizer distillate (RBODD). NP-HPLC analysis of …
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From <i>Zadruga</i> to oil refinery: Croatian immigrants and Croatian-Americans in Whiting, Indiana, 1890 to 1950
… and their Croatian-American children in the oil-refining city of Whiting, Indiana. It utilizes both traditional and quantitative sources.</p> <p>The Whiting Croatians came from a single emigration district along the Croatian Military Border. Changes from communal to individual ownership of …
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Assessment of Current Oil Pipeline Disasters and Mitigation Strategies in Nigeria
AbstractThis study assessed the current oil pipeline disasters and mitigation strategies in Nigeria. The purpose of the study was to determine the current causes and impacts of pipeline disasters in Nigeria between the years 2000 and 2022, and to examine the current mitigation measures to stem the …
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Incremental Design Migration Support in Industrial Control Systems Development
… and contributed to automation of processes in oil refining, power generation, food and beverage and production lines. With advancement in technology, embedded platforms have emerged as ideal platforms for implementation of such ICSes. Traditional approaches in ICS design involve switching from …
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Catalytic upgrading of muconates for renewable chemical applications
… manufactured using feedstocks derived from crude oil refining and currently account for over one third of the worldwide industrial energy demand. As the market demand for petrochemicals are only forecasted to grow, development and advancement of renewable chemical processes is timely. …
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The effect of temperature on the Fischer-Tropsch selectivity and further mechanistic insights
… include the enhanced recovery of conventional oil, the production of extra-heavy oil / tar sands and the utilization of alternative energy production technologies (technologies other than crude oil refining). The Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis (FTS) discovered in 1923 by Fischer and Tropsch, is one …
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Manufacturing of synthetic soda ash
… benefit other companies that use the soda ash in oil refining, water treatment, pulp and paper, chemical industry etc. Some parts of the work done will be proprietary to Nampak and subject to confidentiality agreement.
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Carbon Supported Metal Carbide Catalysts for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
… coke (petcoke), an abundant waste material from oil refining, with comparable activity and selectivity to other catalysts studied for the reduction of CO2 by H2. The process of converting petcoke into a catalyst involved increasing its porosity and carburizing added Mo using microwaves or …
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Fundamental research of the solvent role in the ionothermal synthesis of microporous materials
… to detergent builders and catalyst in the oil refining and petrochemical industry, due to their unique properties such as uniform pore size, large surface area and ion-exchange capacity. Researchers are constantly seeking new methods to synthesize zeolites. Zeolites are commonly synthesized …
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The Design and Synthesis of Magnetic Nanocomposites
… and can be found in industries such as oil refining, automotive, telecommunications, personal electronics, and power generation that are integral to our day to day lives. This permeation into everyday life has been enhanced in the past several decades with improvements in material design …
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An analysis of how climate policies and the threat of stranded fossil fuel assets incentivize CCS deployment
… estimate that up to two thirds of global coal, oil, and natural gas reserves will need to remain stranded in the ground. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the only technology that has the potential to mitigate climate change while utilizing these potentially stranded fossil fuel assets. The …
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Interactions of biomass derived oxygenates with heterogeneous catalysts in aqueous and vacuum environments
… oxide supported catalysts are heavily used in oil refining and petrochemical production, and are capable of upgrading biomass molecules as well. However, the surface chemistries that dictate the behavior of aqueous phase biomass upgrading reactions over metal oxide catalysts are not nearly as …
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Should Oil-Producing Countries Go Downstream?
The expansion of the refinery capacity in oil-producing countries is a rising trend. The fact that the majority of oil producers have already begun to vertically integrate into the downstream oil refining segment calls for a detailed examination of the implication of such investments. Oil-producing …
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