Petroleum pollution changes microbial diversity and network complexity of soil profile in an oil refinery. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2023 Introduction Petroleum pollution resulting from spills and leakages in oil refinery areas has been a significant environmental concern for decades. Despite this, the effects of petroleum pollutants on soil microbial communities and their potential for ...
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Effects of Benzene: Hematological and Hypersensitivity Manifestations in Resident Living in Oil Refinery Areas. [PDF]
Toxics, 2022 Literature is teeming with publications on industrial pollution. Over the decades, the main industrial pollutants and their effects on human health have been widely framed.
Cordiano R +5 more
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Photocatalytic degradation of oily waste and phenol from a local South Africa oil refinery wastewater using response methodology. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 The photocatalytic degradation of a local South Africa oil refinery wastewater was conducted under UV radiation using an aqueous catalyst of titanium dioxide (TiO2), Degussa P25 (80% anatase, 20% rutile) in suspension. The experiment was carried out in a
Tetteh EK, Rathilal S, Naidoo DB.
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Microbial Metabolic Potential of Phenol Degradation in Wastewater Treatment Plant of Crude Oil Refinery: Analysis of Metagenomes and Characterization of Isolates. [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2020 The drilling, processing and transportation of oil are the main sources of pollution in water and soil. The current work analyzes the microbial diversity and aromatic compounds degradation potential in the metagenomes of communities in the wastewater ...
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Adverse Health Impacts of Living Near an Oil Refinery in Jordan. [PDF]
Environ Health Insights, 2020 Introduction: Air pollution can adversely affect the health of communities and manifest as a variety of symptoms. Objective: This study aimed at assessing health symptoms among populations living near an oil refinery in Jordan. Methods: A cross-sectional
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Pareto Optimization in Oil Refinery [PDF]
Data Mining and Big Data5th International Conference, 2020 This article describes the process of multicriteria optimization of a complex industrial control object using Pareto efficiency. The object is being decomposed and viewed as a hierarchy of embedded orgraphs. Performance indicators and controlling factors lists are created based on the orgraphs and technical specifications of an object, thus allowing to
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The Nexus between Workplace Exposure for Wood, Welding, Motor Mechanic, and Oil Refinery Workers and the Prevalence of Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 Workplace exposure in various occupational and industrial sectors is an emerging health concern worldwide. This study aimed to investigate the nexus between workplace exposure for wood, welding, motor mechanic, and oil refinery workers and the prevalence
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Cancer risk in oil refinery workers: a pooled mortality study in Italy. [PDF]
Med Lav, 2019 Background: Oil refinery workers are exposed to several well-established carcinogens and working in this type of industry has been classified by IARC as probable carcinogen to humans (Group 2A).
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Petroleum hydrocarbon rich oil refinery sludge of North-East India harbours anaerobic, fermentative, sulfate-reducing, syntrophic and methanogenic microbial populations. [PDF]
BMC Microbiol, 2018 Sustainable management of voluminous and hazardous oily sludge produced by petroleum refineries remains a challenging problem worldwide. Characterization of microbial communities of petroleum contaminated sites has been considered as the essential ...
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USE OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS IN CREATING OIL BLENDS REQUIRED FOR REFINERY DISTILLATION PLAN [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Petroleum & Gas Technology, 2022 In Romania, the oil refineries were designed to process the crude oil extracted from the deposits located in their immediate vicinity (Suplacu de Barcău Refinery, 1 Mai Refinery, Câmpina Refinery, Vega Refinery and Dărmănești Refinery), to process crude ...
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