Publications related to Petroleum product

Biocompatible and Biodegradable 3D Printing from Bioplastics: A Review

There has been a lot of interest in developing and producing biodegradable polymers to address the current environmental problem caused by the continued usage of synthetic polymers derived from petroleum products. Bioplastics have been identified as a poss ...

MDPI2023

Where is the money ? A decomposition of monetary flows behind fossil fuels

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Xiang Li, Raphaël Briguet

Transition from fossils to renewables is leading to radical societal changes. Shifting the capital from fossils to renewables is commonly accompanied with political concerns, such as energy autonomy, domestic employment etc. Despite a decreasing trend in r ...

DTU Construct2022

Critical overview of biomass feedstocks as sustainable substrates for the production of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)

Edgard Gnansounou, Ranjna Sirohi

Polyhydroxybutyrates (PHBs) are a class of biopolymers produced by different microbial species and are biodegradable and biocompatible in nature as opposed to petrochemically derived plastics. PHBs have advanced applications in medical sector, packaging in ...

Elsevier2020

Lowering CO2 emissions in the Swiss transport sector

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle

In Switzerland, transportation represents 41% of CO2 emissions from energy combustion (2016), a much higher share than in the European Union (EU) (28%) or even the USA (34%). While total Swiss CO2 emissions decreased by 10% between 1990 and 2016, CO2 emiss ...

2019

Designing Heterogeneous Catalysts for Renewable Catalysis Applications Using Metal Oxide Deposition

Jeremy Luterbacher, Yuan-Peng Du

Heterogeneous catalysis has long been a workhorse for the chemical industry and will likely play a key role in the emerging area of renewable chemistry. However, renewable molecule streams pose unique challenges for heterogeneous catalysis due to their hig ...

2019

Investigating the fate of petroleum fluids released in the marine environment with comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography and transport models

Jonas Gros

Anthropogenic releases of petroleum fluids, which contain thousands of compounds, represent a threat to marine environments. However, there was a lack of models able to explain the independent behaviors of the numerous compounds of a spilled petroleum flui ...

EPFL2016

Simulating gas-liquid-water partitioning and fluid properties of petroleum under pressure: Implications for deep-sea blowouts

Jeremy Samuel Arey, Jonas Gros

With the expansion of offshore petroleum extraction, validated models are needed to simulate the behaviors of petroleum compounds released in deep (>100 m) waters. We present a thermodynamic model of the densities, viscosities, and gas-liquid-water partiti ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

An advanced methodology for the mix design optimization of hot mix asphalt

André-Gilles Dumont, Sara Bressi, Manfred Partl

The bitumen quantity to add to asphalt mixtures depends on the surfaces of aggregates and filler to be coated. The formulas currently available in the literature have limitations such as considering all the fillers with the same specific surface or the agg ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Iterative Method for Mass Spectra Recalibration via Empirical Estimation of the Mass Calibration Function for Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry-Based Petroleomics

Yury Tsybin, Anton Kozhinov, Konstantin Zhurov

We describe a mass spectra recalibration method, which enables analysis of petroleum samples with Orbitrap FTMS. In this method, the mass calibration function is estimated on the basis of mass-to-charge ratios and abundances of internal calibrants without ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Evaluation of high-field Orbitrap Fourier transform mass spectrometer for petroleomics

Yury Tsybin, Anton Kozhinov, Konstantin Zhurov

The performance of the high-field Orbitrap Fourier transform mass spectrometer (FTMS) is evaluated in the context of petroleum sample analysis. Pertinent characteristics including resolving power, mass accuracy, and spectral dynamic range are tested with r ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Asphalt mixture choice: a decision-aid model

Nicolas Bueche

Due to the continuous development of warm mix asphalts (WMA) as alternatives to hot mix asphalts (HMA), the choice of the most favourable mixture for a given project is not necessarily straightforward. When considering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and en ...

2012

Évaluation des performances et des impacts des enrobés bitumineux tièdes

Nicolas Bueche

By decreasing the mixing and laying temperatures, warm mix asphalts (WMA) allow a reduction of the energy consumption as well as the emissions, thus contributing to the sustainable development. However researches are necessary for these asphalt mixtures to ...

EPFL2011

Disentangling oil weathering at a marine seep using GC×GC: Broad metabolic specificity accompanies subsurface petroleum biodegradation

Jeremy Samuel Arey

Natural seeps contribute nearly half of the oil entering the coastal ocean. However, environmental fate studies generally monitor fewer than 5% of these petroleum compounds. Hence, the rates and relevance of physical, chemical, and biological weathering pr ...

2008