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Improved performance ion exchange membranes for use in REM, AEM and DMFC fuel cells, buffered fuel cells, hydrolysis, other applications comprise a molecular matrix of homopolymers, di-monomer, heteropolymers, copolymers, or block-polymers of fluorocarbon and hydrocarbon compounds combined with (i) skeletal support grid to improve durability, handling, reduce membrane swelling, and sequester dopants and nanoparticles from leakage; (ii) microporous membrane formed using a sacrificial filler process enhancing conductivity and limiting fuel crossover; (iii) hetero-ionomeric matrix of two-or-more membrane-bound acids e.g. sulphonic and phosphonic acid expanding usable range; (iv) permanent fillers enhancing conductivity and porosity including nanoparticles, metal-oxides, zeolites, silicates, GOs, CNTs, MOFs, POSS, and others; (v) ionic liquid doping to enhance membrane conductivity; (vi) membrane nanocoating preventing H2O2 diffusion; and / or (vii) catalytic nanocoating with metals, metal-oxides, and MOFs preventing atmospheric toxin catalyst poisoning. Combined with a heterogenous GDI, the IEM is integrated into iBFC power blade and energy bank applications.

A hydrocarbon recovery system is integrated with a fluff transfer system. The hydrocarbon recovery system is configured for contacting a wet polymer fluff with a purge gas to provide a purged polymer fluff and an overhead stream, and separating a solids stream, a recovered hydrocarbon stream, and a recovered purge gas from the overhead stream. The polymer fluff transfer system is configured to receive the purged polymer fluff from the hydrocarbon recovery system and transport the purged polymer fluff in the fluff transfer system via circulation of a fluff transfer gas. The hydrocarbon recovery system and the fluff transfer system are integrated by utilizing at least a portion of the recovered purge gas from the hydrocarbon recovery system in the fluff transfer system as the fluff transfer gas and optionally utilizing fluff transfer gas from the fluff transfer system as the purge gas in the hydrocarbon recovery system.

Disclosed herein are tire tread rubber compositions comprising a specified elastomer component, reinforcing silica filler, a specified hydrocarbon resin, liquid plasticizer, and a cure package. The elastomer component includes styrene-butadiene rubber and high cis linear polybutadiene. Use of the disclosed ingredients may result in a tire tread having particular properties, as discussed further herein.

An article for joule heating is described, including a three-dimensional substrate on and / or in which a pyrolyzate of a phenolic resin or polymer forms an electrically conductive carbon network. Such articles may be incorporated in structured materials applications, which may include support, sorbent, and or catalyst components. Also described are methods of fabricating such articles and structured materials, and apparatus comprising same, and methods of use of such articles and structured materials and apparatus for conducting material transformation processes requiring input of heat for their performance, such as CO2 adsorption, methane pyrolysis for hydrogen and carbon production, hydrogen-assisted conversion of CO2 to hydrocarbons, including catalytic conversion of CO2 to olefins, catalytic conversion of CO2 to propane (liquefied petroleum gas), and catalytic conversion of CO2 to renewable natural gas, reverse water gas shift reaction, steam ethane cracking, propane cracking, steam methane reforming, and dry methane reforming.

A advanced fuel cell (AFC) assembly comprises a variety of features improving its performance, reliability, durability, and manufacturability include an ion exchange membrane such as a proton exchange membrane comprising polymers of perfluorinated sulfonic acid or hydrocarbon compounds supported by an inert endoskeletal structure of greater mechanical strength preventing deformation damage from handling, temperature cycling, and ionomer swelling and contraction from humidity cycling. The endoskeleton may be attached to wider exoskeletal pillars used for singulating one membrane from another after fabrication and to a thicker handle used to transport the membrane during processing prior to separation. Other AFC features include a asymmetric catalyst coated membrane inhibiting fuel cross over, oxygen back streaming, and CO atmospheric poisoning; a graded heterogenous gas diffusion layer for enhanced charge and gas transport; and a self-aligned gasket-less assembly with integrated sealant preventing gas leakage.

A method for separating liquid-like (T2e) from solid-like (T2G) 1H NMR transverse relaxation times in porous media uses novel pulse sequences together with a 1H NMR spectrometer optimized for geological core samples. The method is applied to obtain 1D T2 distributions and 2D T1-T2 maps in organic-rich chalks for quantification of liquid-like signal (micropore fluids, meso-macropore fluids, fluids dissolved in organic matter, and clay-bound water) and solid-like signal (kerogen, bitumen, and clay hydroxyls). The novel pulse sequences comprise a solid-echo, which detects more solid-like signal than an FID. The method is used for fluid typing in micro / meso-macro pores, clay mineral identification, determination of kerogen content, and quantification of solvent-extracted bitumen versus bitumen expelled from kerogen due to swelling from dissolved hydrocarbons. The method is used to quantify the asphaltene, resin, aromatic, and / or saturate content of bitumen in the rock.

Fracturing or fracking fluids for fracturing a subterranean reservoir for hydrocarbon recovery and related methods are described. The fluid comprises lignin, in particular technical lignin, and at least one strain of bacteria capable of biosurfactant production and / or a biosurfactant produced by at least one such isolated strain of bacteria. Also described is a fracturing method for recovering hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation.

An offshore installation or offshore vessel is provided which comprises a reactor system for carrying out steam reforming of a feed gas comprising hydrocarbons.

Fluid release detection is provided. A vehicle can determine, via a first sensor, a flow rate of a first fluid, such as a headspace gas, between an environment and a reservoir of the vehicle. The vehicle can receive a fluid consumption rate for a second fluid, such as a hydrocarbon fuel associated with the reservoir. The vehicle can detect, based on the flow rate and the fluid consumption rate, a fluid release of the reservoir. The vehicle can execute an action responsive to the detection of the fluid release.

A system and method for generating hydrogen within a petroleum reservoir and producing the hydrogen includes providing one or more wellbores into the petroleum reservoir from a surface, wherein the petroleum reservoir contains fractures by hydraulic fracturing, heating catalyst particles within the fractures of the petroleum reservoir using electromagnetic waves, wherein the heated catalyst particles generate a syngas from hydrocarbons within the petroleum reservoir, separating the hydrogen from the syngas at the surface or within the one or more wellbores, and producing the hydrogen at the surface or to the surface.

This disclosure includes systems and methods of operating a convection section of an furnace in a chemical production process with simulated combustion gas (SCG) that is heated by an electric or thermal energy source instead of by combustion. Some such systems and methods utilize a thermal mass that is configured to store thermal energy such that the thermal mass can be used to heat a working fluid. The thermal mass can be coupled to a heater that receives electrical energy from a renewable source, and converts the electrical energy into thermal energy to heat the thermal mass and thereby store the thermal energy. In some aspects, a furnace is in fluid communication with the thermal mass such that the furnace receives the working fluid from the thermal mass to provide thermal energy to process for chemical production that would otherwise typically be provided by flue gas from a hydrocarbon-fired radiant section in conventional systems. In some configurations, the working fluid is or comprises one or more radiatively participating gases heated to exceed a threshold above which the working fluid transfers heat through radiation.

Integrated processes and facilities for providing recycled content hydrocarbon products (r-products) from mixed waste plastic are provided. Carbon dioxide capture and energy recovery from one or more process streams described herein increase energy efficiency and help reduce overall environmental impact while producing valuable final products from chemically recycled waste plastic.

Systems and methods of the present disclosure includes a mixer configured to mix air and hydrocarbons and a burner configured to receive the mixed air and hydrocarbons and to generate syngas. The system also includes a cooling system configured to receive the syngas and to cool the syngas to form cooled syngas. The system further includes a collector configured to collect carbon from the cooled syngas as soot. Moreover, the system includes a flare stack configured to receive the cooled syngas and to burn off at least part of the cooled syngas.

Systems, methods, and apparatus for characterizing reservoirs are discussed. As an example, a method for characterizing a reservoir is discussed that includes determining a ki parameter, a αE parameter, and a αP parameter based at least in part on the at least four pairs of effective stress and permeability; and predicting a hydrocarbon production rate from reservoir represented by the sample rock based at least in part on the ki parameter, the αE parameter, and the αP parameter.

The present disclosure provides a solid electrolyte composition that can suppress deterioration in ion conductivity of an ionic solid electrolyte material. The solid electrolyte composition according to the present disclosure contains a sulfur element-free ionic solid electrolyte material and an organic solvent, where the organic solvent includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a hydrocarbon and a compound having a functional group; and the functional group is at least one selected from the group consisting of an ether group, a halogen group, and a Si—O—C group.

Provided herein are lipid compounds, e.g., a compound of Formula (I) comprising an amine (heterocyclic) "head group" and a "hydrocarbon tail" moiety, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided are lipid nanoparticles, each comprising a lipid compound of Formula (I), as a promising delivery vehicle for a variety of therapeutic agents, including small molecule drugs, proteins, and nucleic acids.

Disclosed herein are methods for pyrolysis of plastic feedstock comprising post-consumer and / or post-industrial plastics. In various implementations, the methods include directing the plastic feedstock into an internal volume of a reactor vessel, and pyrolyzing the plastic feedstock in the internal volume of the reactor vessel.

A method executable by one or more processors includes obtaining a measured value of a first variable at a current time step, estimating, with a first model, an estimated value of a second variable at the current time step based on the measured value of the first variable, generating, by a reinforcement learning model, a control decision for a subsequent time step based on the measured value of the first variable and the estimated value of the second variable, predicting, with a second model, a predicted value of the first variable for the subsequent time step based on the measured value of the first variable at the current time step, adjusting the control decision for the subsequent time step based on a constraint and the future value of the first variable, and controlling an actuator based on the control decision.

A fuel reforming system for a vehicle on which a reciprocating engine is mounted is provided can comprise a decomposer to decompose hydrocarbon fuel into carbon and hydrogen gas by using heat and a pressure of combustion gas and a catalyst and to hold carbon. The decomposer can communicate with a combustion chamber via an openable / closable third port. A reforming space in which a reforming member including the catalyst is installed can be on the side of a connection portion of the decomposer with the third port. On an opposite side of interior of the connection portion of the decomposer with the third port, an additional space is provided to accommodate residual gas that remains in the third port and the decomposer when combustion gas is introduced into the decomposer through the third port.

A thermochemical system and method for thermochemical decomposition of a hydrocarbon feedstock such as methane or natural gas within an insulated volume where the important elements of the thermochemical system are located within the insulated volume. The insulated volume contains a heater and a thermal energy storage medium in thermal communication with the heater such that it is heated by the heater and stores the thermal energy it receives by a heat storage process. The thermal energy storage medium is also configured to release the thermal energy that it stored in the form of a released heat. The insulated volume also contains a hydrocarbon pyrolysis reactor thermally coupled with the thermal energy storage medium to receive the released heat and use it for driving pyrolysis of the hydrocarbon feedstock to produce pyrolysis products containing primarily hydrogen and a solid carbon product. Pyrolysis of the hydrocarbon feedstock is driven at a high temperature, such as between 700 ° C and 2, 000 ° C.

An article for joule heating is described, including a three-dimensional substrate on and / or in which a pyrolyzate of a phenolic resin or polymer forms an electrically conductive carbon network. Such articles may be incorporated in structured materials applications, which may include support, sorbent, and or catalyst components. Also described are methods of fabricating such articles and structured materials, and apparatus comprising same, and methods of use of such articles and structured materials and apparatus for conducting material transformation processes requiring input of heat for their performance, such as CO2 adsorption, methane pyrolysis for hydrogen and carbon production, hydrogen-assisted conversion of CO2 to hydrocarbons, including catalytic conversion of CO2 to olefins, catalytic conversion of CO2 to propane (liquefied petroleum gas), and catalytic conversion of CO2 to renewable natural gas, reverse water gas shift reaction, steam ethane cracking, propane cracking, steam methane reforming, and dry methane reforming.

An interior room air filter module has a particle filter element, an adsorption filter element, and a frame with a radially protruding seal flange surrounding them. The particle filter element has a folded pack with zigzag-folded layers of filter medium. The layers include a layer with an aerosol-separating filter medium, an inflow-side first layer, and an outflow-side second layer at the particle filter element. The first and second layers, for forming the folded pack, are folded while resting on each other. The adsorption filter element has shaped bodies in the form of honeycomb bodies which adsorb at least hydrocarbons. The seal flange laterally surrounds the adsorption filter element at a circumferential exterior wall thereof. A filter assembly has a filter housing for receiving such an air filter module and has first and second seal sections following a contour of the seal flange or seal attached thereto.

Example gas recovery systems disclosed herein include a source gas conditioning assembly comprising a compression component and swing adsorption component configured to provide a conditioned source gas, a first membrane assembly to separate the conditioned source gas into a hydrocarbon enriched stream and a recovery stream, a second membrane assembly to separate the hydrocarbon enriched stream into a hydrocarbon product stream and a recycle stream, a carbon dioxide plant assembly to provide a carbon dioxide product stream and an enriched recycle stream, and a standalone membrane assembly at least selectively fluidly coupled to the enriched recycle stream, and separates the enriched recycle stream into a hydrocarbon enriched recycle stream and an effluent stream. The swing adsorption component is at least selectively coupled to the enriched recycle stream. The source gas conditioning assembly is fluidly coupled to the recycle stream, and at least selectively coupled to the hydrocarbon enriched recycle stream.

Techniques for updating hydrocarbon parameters include identifying well data associated with wells formed in subterranean formations of a hydrocarbon reservoir; determining a data density value for each well; assigning each well into a pressure grouping based on a wellbore pressure similarity of the well relative to an initial pattern well; generating a two-dimensional (2D) model of the hydrocarbon reservoir; converting the 2D model into a three-dimensional (3D) model of the hydrocarbon reservoir; and updating a permeability or a porosity associated with a grid cell of the 3D model.

The invention discloses a composite hollow-core optical fiber and application thereof in detection of hydrocarbon gas, and belongs to the technical field of optical fibers. The composite hollow-core optical fiber sequentially comprises an outer cladding layer, an inner cladding layer and a fiber core from outside to inside. The inner cladding is an anti-resonance area and comprises four anti-resonance units which are uniformly distributed in the circumferential direction, and each anti-resonance unit comprises three layers of circular micro capillary tubes which are coaxially nested in sequence from inside to outside; the outer cladding is a photonic band gap region, comprises a plurality of air holes which are tangent to one another, and is of a hexagonal structure as a whole; the fiber core is filled with air and is formed by encircling a plurality of anti-resonance units in the inner cladding. The composite hollow-core optical fiber has the characteristics of a hollow-core photonic band gap optical fiber and a hollow-core anti-resonance optical fiber, a three-layer circular micro capillary structure is adopted, light can be effectively limited in a fiber core, and transmission loss is reduced; and the composite hollow-core optical fiber can work under the ultra-wide wavelength condition of 5.5-9.5 [mu] m, so that the requirement for detecting toxic hydrocarbon gas is met.

The present invention relates to the treatment of plastic materials to be used for chemical recycling processes for the enhancement of substantially plastic materials otherwise destined for disposal.Specifically, the invention relates to a process for the pyrolysis of substantially plastic material to obtain at least hydrocarbons that are liquid at 25° C., comprising the following steps:a) feeding a substantially plastic material to a pyrolysis reactor;b) bringing said material in said pyrolysis reactor to a temperature of between 330° C. and 580° C. in the substantial absence of oxygen and at a pressure of between atmospheric pressure and 13 bara;c) maintaining said material in said pyrolysis reactor for a sufficient amount of time to produce an effluent in the gaseous state;d) partially or fully condensing said effluent in the gaseous state, so as to form at least one fluid comprising hydrocarbons that are liquid at 25° C. and which quantitatively is at least 10% by mass with respect to the mass of substantially plastic material fed;e) carrying out an assessment of at least one property “Px” of the liquid condensed from said effluent in the gaseous state by means of at least one measurement “Ax” of the spectrum in transmission, reflection or transflexion on said condensed liquid;f) adjusting at least one process parameter “Ox” according to said assessment of at least one property “Px”;g) repeating steps e) and f) iteratively so as to keep the said at least one property “Px” substantially constant over time.

The utility model discloses a vertical liquid storage tank pump inlet pipeline structure which comprises a pump inlet pipeline, a horizontal pipeline and a slope pipeline which are sequentially connected, the pump inlet pipeline is vertically arranged downwards along a storage tank pipeline nozzle, and the horizontal pipeline is connected to the lower end of the pump inlet pipeline. The gradient pipeline is arranged above the horizontal pipeline, the lower end of the gradient pipeline is connected with the horizontal pipeline, a stop valve is arranged on the gradient pipeline, the upper end of the capillary pipeline is connected with a storage tank, and the lower end of the capillary pipeline extends to the inner bottom of the horizontal pipeline. The utility model aims to solve the technical problems in the prior art, and provides a vertical liquid storage tank pump inlet pipeline structure which can keep low-temperature liquid in a horizontal pipeline circulating and thoroughly block the risks of dry evaporation and hydrocarbon precipitation at the dead end of the pipeline.

A method may include obtaining reservoir data, hydraulic fracturing data, and static wellbore data for a geological region of interest. The method may further include obtaining temporal production data for the geological region of interest. The temporal production data may include a predetermined production rate with respect to a predetermined period of time. The method may further include determining various temporal features based on the temporal production data and an extraction process. The extraction process may include a deconvolution function that separates a portion of the temporal features from the predetermined production rate. The method may further include determining, using a machine-learning model, predicted hydrocarbon-in-place (HIP) data for the geological region of interest using the reservoir data, the hydraulic fracturing data, the static wellbore data, and the temporal features. The method may further include transmitting a command to a well control system based on the predicted HIP data.

The present disclosure provides processes for removing hydrocarbons, oil coated solids, and suspended solids from a separated water stream produced from a produced water source. In particular, the methods comprise subjecting the separated water stream to a centrifugal separation followed by filtration.

The invention belongs to the technical field of flue gas treatment, and particularly relates to a waste gas treatment device which comprises a moving box and a control panel arranged on the outer wall of the left side of the moving box, a PLC is fixedly connected to the inner wall of the left side of the moving box, and self-locking wheels are fixedly connected to the four corners of the lower side wall of the moving box. When the waste gas treatment device is used for treating waste gas, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbon and nitric oxide in the waste gas can be fully absorbed, so that the problem that the surrounding environment is damaged by the carbon monoxide, the hydrocarbon and the nitric oxide in the waste gas is avoided, and the waste gas of a factory reaches the emission standard; and after the waste gas treatment device works for a long time and the filter assembly is blocked, the filter assembly can be automatically backwashed by using high-pressure airflow, so that particulate matters blocked in the filter assembly fall off, and the adsorption effect of the waste gas treatment device is ensured.