Processes, Volume 14, Issue 1

As a type of multilateral wells, fishbone wells have the advantages of expanding oil drainage areas and increasing single well controlled reserves. However, there exists obvious productivity interference between branches of fishbone wells. In order t...

Absorption systems offer a practical alternative to traditional compression systems, especially when low-grade heat sources are available. Their applications range from vaccine preservation to space conditioning, making performance optimization essen...

The Turkish steel industry aims to reduce its sectoral carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions by 55% by 2030, in line with Türkiye’s Paris Agreement commitments and the European Green Deal (EGD), and consistent with the ambition of the European Un...

Material tracking and localization are key applications of Industry 4.0 in manufacturing process control. Traditional approaches—such as barcode or QR code identification and RTLS-based localization using RF/UWB, 5G or GPS–require a large...

With the integrated development of new energy and oil and gas production, introducing wind–solar–storage microgrids in coalbed methane well screw pump discharge systems enhances the renewable energy proportion while promoting green develo...

This study tackles the challenge of treating high-oil (≥90 mg/L) and high-salinity (Cl⁻ ≥ 6900 mg/L) oilfield-produced water for green hydrogen production. An integrated technology combining electrochemical cascade purification (EDCF: ele...

High renewable energy penetration in Integrated Energy Systems (IES) introduces significant challenges related to bilateral source-load uncertainty and low-carbon economic dispatch. To address these issues, this paper proposes a novel scheduling fram...

Mineral extraction from brine solutions is a vital issue for resource recovery in many fields of industry, especially in desalination processes. Usually, the solubility limit is viewed as a key factor that plays a determinant role in the efficiency o...

The CO₂ capture process in coal-fired power plant flue gas still faces the difficulties of low material performance and high energy and cost consumption. It is necessary to develop new capture solvents and materials, and also new capture process conf...

CO₂ corrosion remains a critical challenge for the safe and reliable operation of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) infrastructure. This review summarizes CO₂ corrosion implications from material selection, exposure time, CO₂ phase beha...

Exogenous fires in underground coal mines are characterized by low illumination, smoke occlusion, heavy dust loading and pseudo fire sources, which jointly degrade image quality and cause missed and false alarms in visual detection. To achieve accura...

This study investigates the potential of tsipouro liquid waste (TLW) as a sustainable substrate for cultivating the edible–medicinal mushroom Hericium erinaceus under static liquid fermentation. TLW naturally contains high glycerol levels and s...

Path planning aims to find a safe and efficient path from a starting point to an end point, and it has been well developed in fields such as robot navigation, autonomous driving, and intelligent decision systems. However, traditional path planning fa...

Banana peel, an abundant by-product rich in bioactive compounds, presents high functional and technological potential. Despite its potential, the industrial use of banana peel is limited by enzymatic browning. Thus, this study proposed an integrated...

To investigate the accumulation and transport behavior of non-spherical particles during rotary drilling in extended-reach horizontal wells, a CFD–DEM numerical simulation study was carried out based on actual field drilling parameters. The eff...

The classification of lemons by size is a crucial industrial process that ensures specific quality standards. Lemon sorting is typically performed by hand or often using expensive, outdated machines. In this article, we develop Machine Learning and Q...

Ammonia–coal co-firing is emerging as a promising technological pathway to reduce carbon production during coal-fired power generation. However, the coupling effects of the ammonia energy ratio (E_NH3) and equivalence ratio on the ignition mecha...

Pharmaceutical contamination poses growing environmental risks, yet industrial adoption of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) remains limited by high costs and the environmental impacts associated with specialized electrodes. This study demonstrates...

Amaranth 11S globulin is a plant protein that is renowned for its high essential amino acid content and nutritional value. It has undergone modification through the insertion of antihypertensive peptides valine-tyrosine (VY), which act as angiotensin...

The present work investigates the efficacy of ultrasound (US)-based pretreatment methods for the process intensification of biological oxidation (BO) of real pharmaceutical industrial effluent with a high initial COD of 50,000 mgL⁻¹. US, combin...

Human body measurement involves large-scale measurement. The acquisition of three-dimensional spatial coordinate data is a complex process. The errors which are generated in each stage of the process can potentially affect the final measurement data....

Heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, and lead) remain one of the most common and complex environmental problems worldwide. Accordingly, there is a growing need for eco-friendly and affordable materials derived from agricultural waste for the removal of he...

Accurate reservoir identification from well-logging data is crucial for hydrocarbon exploration, yet challenges persist due to a series of factors, including limitations such as low efficiency and subjectivity of manual processing for massive dataset...

Conventional drilling parameter optimization, heavily reliant on lagging lithology data from periodic mud logging, suffers from significant delays between formation change detection and parameter adjustment. This latency often leads to reduced Rate o...

The practical use of computational thermo-fluid dynamics (CFD) for food thermal process calculations still appears very premature due to both the high costs and the inhomogeneity and anisotropy of foods. Therefore, the traditional formula method with...

Existing design methodologies for off-grid wind–solar–hydrogen integrated energy systems (WSH-IES) are typically case-specific and lack portability. This study aims to establish a unified design framework to enhance cross-scenario applica...

Wet coffee pulp residues (WCPRs) are typically underutilized, and their accumulation increases alongside coffee production, generating significant environmental impacts. This study proposes a sustainable valorization approach through hydrothermal tre...

This study presents the development and validation of a comprehensive numerical optimisation methodology used to improve the energy efficiency of a pump with normal characteristics: volume flow rate, Q nom = 6.3 m³/h, and head, H = 20 mH₂O. The metho...

A quantitative understanding of methane leakage has become essential for safety design as eco-friendly fuel systems expand in modern ship applications. To address this need, controlled methane-release experiments were conducted in a large indoor cham...

The separate-layer gas injection technology is a key means to improve the effect of refined gas injection development. Currently, the measurement and adjustment of separate injection wells primarily rely on manual experience and automatic measurement...

To mitigate the challenges of false positives and undetected small-scale defects in fabric inspection, this study proposes an advanced fabric defect detection system that leverages an optimized YOLOv9 algorithm. First, redundant computations are redu...

Reliability assessment of conical shells in the chemical industry commonly relies on point cloud registration. Thus, accurate edge detection from 3D laser scan data is crucial for high-precision registration. However, existing edge detection methods...

The study focuses on the design of an intelligent information-control system (ICS) for metallurgical production, aimed at robust forecasting of technological parameters and automatic self-adaptation under noise, anomalies, and data drift. The propose...

This paper proposes an analog retuning strategy that strengthens the functional longevity of photovoltaic (PV) systems operating within circular-economy environments. Although PV modules can be relocated from large generation sites to low-demand rura...

This study evaluated the effect of incorporating chia seed gel powder (CSGP) as a natural, clean-label stabilizer on the physicochemical, functional, microbiological, microstructural, antioxidant, and sensory properties of probiotic low-fat yogurt (P...

Deep and ultra-deep drilling operations commonly encounter fractured and fracture-vuggy formations, where weak wellbore strength and well-developed fracture networks lead to frequent lost circulation, presenting a key challenge to safe and efficient...

Academic conferences have been pivotal in scholarly communications, facilitating the exchange of ideas and fostering collaborations among attendees by using advanced sensing, networking, and control technologies. Traditionally held in physical venues...

In order to study the impacts of the carbon-green certificate trading mechanism and the fluctuation of feed-in tariffs on the low-carbon and economic aspects of the investment and operation of the integrated energy system, and to transform the system...

A major factor in worldwide ecological harm is the large quantity of municipal solid waste generated because of rapid industrialization and population growth. Nowadays, there are numerous mechanical, biological, and thermal waste treatment processes...

This study employs CFD simulations carried on ANSYS Fluent 2022 R1 (ANSYS Inc., Canonsburg, PA, USA), to address the design, development, and thermodynamic analysis of a biomass burner, based on mass and energy balances, combustion efficiency, flame...

Mechanical forces, chemical and electrochemical reactions, and environmental variables can all lead to surface degradation of parts. Composite coatings can be applied to these materials to enhance their surface characteristics. Recently, nickel-based...

Hydrogen-based direct reduction (H-DR) represents an environmentally benign and energy-efficient alternative in ironmaking that has significant industrial potential. This study reviews the current status of H-DR shaft furnaces and accompanying hydrog...

The safe disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) is a significant challenge in the nuclear industry. As the buffer backfill material for deep geological disposal engineering barriers, the shrinkage characteristics of bentonite–sand mixtu...

Sewage sludge production is increasing rapidly, yet current sludge treatment capacity and technology remain insufficient. The thermochemical process has been widely adopted for sewage sludge disposal; its solid product (bio/hydro-char) shows consider...

The transition from linear, resource-intensive production to circular, low-carbon manufacturing currently presents a major challenge [...]

The integration of large-scale renewable energy sources has increased the complexity of operation and maintenance in modern power systems, causing on-site substation operation and maintenance activities to exhibit stronger continuity and dynamics, an...

Biogas, a promising fuel for present and future generations, is produced from the anaerobic digestion of organic waste generated by the condominium itself. Therefore, this work aims to evaluate the exergoeconomic performance of a biogas cogeneration...

The ZN Oilfield shale reservoir is characterized by thin sand–shale interbeds, strong lateral and vertical heterogeneity, poor porosity–permeability, low formation pressure coefficient, and low brittleness, which together limit fracture p...

Zeolites and molecular sieves have demonstrated remarkable potential in adsorption, ion exchange, and separation processes since their industrial revolution in the 1950s. Zeolites and molecular sieves are materials of choice in separation application...

A cobalt-containing zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-67) was carbonized by different routes to composite materials (cZIFs) composed of metallic Co, Co₃O₄, and N-doped carbonaceous phase. The effect of the carbonization procedure on the water pollu...