Processes, Volume 14, Issue 6

In order to design a new type of long-life and reliable casing hanger, this paper studied the failure mechanisms of the rubber sealing structures of the slip hanger and the mandrel hanger. Through tensile and compressive tests, the tests and analyses...

In situ hydrogen generation can extend in situ combustion (ISC) by converting part of the heavy oil in place into H₂-containing gas while allowing part of the carbonaceous products to remain in the reservoir. To clarify how operating conditions affec...

As modern power markets integrate more renewable generation, day-ahead energy clearing remains the central procurement step, while flexibility products are procured to ensure that the cleared energy schedule can be operated securely. This paper propo...

High-velocity fluid flow in porous media frequently exhibits non-Darcy behavior, where inertial losses lead to nonlinear pressure gradient velocity behavior. Predicting the Forchheimer coefficient β remains challenging because β varies sens...

Carbon-neutral industrial parks require large consumers, such as data centers, to balance low-carbon operation and service reliability. This paper proposes a resilience-constrained stochastic dispatch framework for a data-center virtual power plant (...

In the present study, we evaluate the CO₂ uptake capacities of four activated carbons (ACs) obtained from olive stones. Two of the samples were generated using a chemical process utilizing phosphoric acid, thereafter undergoing carbonization in a nit...

The cheese maturation process involves complex physicochemical and structural changes that directly influence its final quality and consumer acceptance. The development of non-destructive and rapid analytical techniques is therefore essential for mon...

To ensure the safety and structural integrity of composite flexible blades under strong winds, this study investigates the extreme aeroelastic responses of the IEA 15 MW wind turbine blade during an emergency shutdown with pitch system faults. Existi...

To address the decline in oxygen production capacity and the increase in specific energy consumption of portable vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA) oxygen systems under high-altitude low-pressure conditions, a rotary-valve integrated VPSA numeri...

This paper addresses the speed control problem of a DC motor in the presence of nonlinearities, disturbances, and unmodeled dynamics by proposing a neural backstepping control scheme based on a Recurrent High-Order Neural Network (RHONN). The propose...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the influence of traditional and industrial smoking technologies on the physicochemical properties, color, texture, and mass loss of selected cured pork products. Four products (dry-cured pork neck, dry-cured pork...

β-Carotene is widely utilized in food systems due to its biological activities, but exhibits poor chemical stability and low bioavailability. This study utilized whole Auricularia polytricha (Mont.) Sacc. powder as a direct emulsifier to establi...

With the continuous increase in the penetration rate of renewable energy sources, the uncertainty of new energy output has brought significant risks and challenges to the planning strategy of integrated energy systems. Meanwhile, power grid operators...

Dynamic umbilicals, as critical components connecting offshore platforms to subsea production systems, can effectively decouple platform motions through a lazy-wave configuration, thereby reducing top tension and fatigue damage. To address the engine...

With the expansion of global oil and gas resource exploration and development into deep and ultra deep layers, the efficient development of deep carbonate rock fracture cave reservoirs has become the key to ensuring energy security. However, this typ...

Intelligent soft open points (SOPs) and energy storage systems (ESSs) are effective ways to absorb distributed new energy in the spatial and temporal dimensions, and play an important role in improving the new-energy-carrying capacity of distribution...

Field breeding trial-plot harvesting is one of the key processes in crop breeding, as any mixing between varieties during harvest directly leads to the invalidation of breeding data. Therefore, achieving zero-residue self-cleaning inside the machine...

The Midong Block is currently a primary target for coalbed methane (CBM) exploration and development in Xinjiang. However, fracturing operations in this region generally exhibit low flowback rates, which escalate the risk of reservoir damage and ulti...

Biochars are currently proposed as soil amendments or sorbent materials. There is an extensive scientific literature that deals with biochars originating from different raw materials. However, a holistic physicochemical characterization with simple a...

Kyoho grape, a leading table grape variety in China, is prone to rapid postharvest deterioration due to its soft texture and high respiration rate. Despite the use of low-temperature storage and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP), systematic studies...

In this study, a three-dimensional simulation of a walking-beam reheating furnace was developed to improve the steel slab reheating process and reduce surface oxidation kinetics using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Combustion, heat transfer, flu...

Adsorption is a promising solution to the presence of contaminants in water resources that involves the use of adsorbent materials, such as granular activated carbon (GAC) and nanoparticles like silver (Ag) and copper (Cu). However, the practical cha...

Deep marine shale reservoirs are controlled by multi-factor coupling effects, and the genetic mechanism of “sweet spots” exhibits strong complexity, leading to prominent difficulties in quantitative prediction and precise evaluation of sw...

This work presents the real-world deployment of an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) for intelligent energy control in resource-constrained IoT devices. The proposed system employs a first-order Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy model with three...

This work presents a comprehensive literature review on Continuous Oscillatory Baffled Reactors (COBRs), surveying advancements from 2014 to 2025. Although widespread industrial adoption of COBRs remains a future goal, the analysis reveals the signif...

This study employs a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approach based on the Two-Fluid Model (TFM) to investigate the CO₂ capture characteristics in a bubbling fluidized bed reactor using potassium carbonate (K₂CO₃) as the sorbent. The simulations a...

Wellbore stability is one of the major challenges during drilling operations in shale gas formations. Drilling fluid seepage can significantly alter the pore pressure around the wellbore, thereby inducing wellbore instability. In this study, the Darc...

Inadequate domestic wastewater treatment remains a major environmental challenge due to the discharge of nitrogen compounds that originate primarily from human excreta, food residues, and household products, and are commonly present as ammonium and o...

In the field of oil reservoir engineering, the development of large-dip-angle reservoirs poses significant challenges due to their strong heterogeneity, pronounced gravity effects, and inefficient water flooding sweep, all contributing to suboptimal...

Olive pomace biochar, obtained through the pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass, has emerged as a sustainable and multifunctional additive for polymer composites. Its physicochemical properties, including porosity, surface area, and electrical conduc...

The accelerating depletion of natural resources, combined with growing environmental pressures and the increasing urgency of climate change mitigation, has brought the circular economy to the forefront of scientific research, industrial practice, and...

In pursuit of energy decarbonization and supply security, the integrated energy production unit (IEPU) is regarded as a notable multi-technology energy production model integrating coal-fired power, carbon capture, and renewable energy. As a core com...

This study aimed to develop a 100 mg immediate-release (IR) tablet containing dasatinib monohydrate, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, using a Quality by Design (QbD) framework at laboratory scale. The development strategy focused on systematic identifica...

Push–pull exhaust systems are widely applied for controlling industry-processing fumes, and their performance is fundamentally governed by the coupling interaction among the air-curtain jet (“push”), the buoyant thermal plume genera...

The Tianfu Gas Field in the Sichuan Basin is a core block for the large-scale, economic development of Jurassic tight gas in China. The first sub-member of the first member of the Shaximiao Formation in the Zhongjiang Block hosts typical low-porosity...

In this study, the dyeing kinetics of polyamide fabrics with acid dyes, such as Telon Blue M2R, under both conventional and microwave-assisted heating conditions were comprehensively investigated. While the conventional dyeing reaction was completed...

When high-altitude aircraft operate in a low-density environment, the flow instability within their internal ducts poses a severe challenge to aerodynamic design and operational safety. Especially in the intake system of the tandem dual-fan configura...

During gas production, the wellbore operates under high temperature and high pressure conditions, where gas–liquid two-phase flow is commonly present. Thus, it is important to understand the holdup of different flow patterns of gas–liquid...

Industries seek microorganisms capable of producing all types of cellulases, using low-cost substrate and under adequate process conditions, especially through submerged fermentation. Pleurotus ostreatus “L123” was evaluated as a potentia...

Photocatalytic CO₂ reduction to high-value-added C₂+ products is a practical route from an economic viewpoint for advancing the industrialization of CO₂ conversion. Despite significant progress in catalyst modification in recent years (such as defect...

Municipal solid waste (MSW) management faces increasing pressure due to rapid urbanization and the need for low-emission energy systems. This study investigates the thermogravimetric gasification behavior of Chinese MSW under CO₂, mixed air-CO₂, and...

This study evaluated the electrochemical and oxidative performance of titanium-supported RuO₂–SnO₂–Sb₂O₅ mixed metal oxide electrodes (hereafter denoted as RuO₂–SnO₂–Sb₂O₅/Ti) for degrading three aniline-based dyes and their m...

The presence of non-stationary features poses a major challenge to root cause diagnosis in industrial processes, as they can distort fault propagation paths inferred through causal testing. To address this issue, an adaptive moving-window dual-test G...

Ice accretion on aircraft, wind-turbine blades, power networks, civil infrastructure, and exposed sensors poses severe safety risks and economic costs. Passive icephobic surfaces mitigate icing by delaying heterogeneous nucleation, altering droplet i...

The large-scale grid integration of distributed renewable energy enhances the flexible regulation capacity of the power system. However, the inherent randomness and volatility of its output, coupled with weak coupling access characteristics, pose sev...

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) combined with chemometrics has emerged as a rapid and non-destructive technique for fruit quality evaluation, enabling efficient monitoring of biochemical changes during postharvest storage. Among quality indicators, antio...

To achieve high-precision and real-time quantitative evaluation of gas production in underground gas storage (UGS), this study focused on 11 typical injection-production wells in the Sudong UGS group. To address the common challenges posed by deviate...

Strong heterogeneity and ambiguous seismic responses hinder reliable sandstone thickness prediction when using a single seismic attribute in the lower sandstone interval of the Talang Akar Formation (hereafter abbreviated as the LTAF interval) in the...

The growing demand for environmentally sustainable technologies is driving the adoption of increasingly stringent energy regulations across Europe. The residential sector is particularly impacted, not only through requirements for highly insulated bu...

Geothermal field characteristics fundamentally control hydrocarbon generation, phase evolution, and preservation, and are particularly critical in deep to ultra-deep hydrocarbon exploration. The Tazhong Uplift is a key area for deep to ultra-deep hyd...