Traps for capturing mosquitoes and other blood-feeding arthropods are often baited with carbon dioxide (CO2) as an attractant. Dry ice is popularly used as a CO2 source due to its high efficiency and ease of use. However, dry ice can be difficult to...
Three-dimensional numerical models of potential underground storage and compositional simulation are a way to study the feasibility of storing carbon dioxide in the existing geological formations. However, the results of the simulations are affected...
Geological carbon sequestration is a critical strategy for reducing atmospheric CO2 emissions and mitigating climate change; however, its long-term effectiveness depends on a robust understanding of subsurface trapping mechanisms. This review synthes...
This review focuses on the consequences of the early and rapid deployment of carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage (CCS) technologies, which is currently recognized as a critical problem in fulfilling climate change mitigation objectives and as a...
It is a challenge in experimental studies today to accurately predict the trapping mechanisms in saline aquifers that influence the long-term CO2 storage capacities. The inability in current experimental studies to quantify the effects of combined pr...
As global temperatures continue to rise, surpassing the +2.5 °C threshold under current emissions scenarios, the urgency for sustainable, effective carbon management strategies has intensified. Geological carbon storage (GCS) has been explored as...
The injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) is an essential technology for maximizing the potential of hydrocarbon reservoirs while reducing the impact of greenhouse gases. However, because of the complexity of this injection, there will be many different...
Simulating CO2 mineral trapping in basaltic formations requires geochemical reaction networks, but including all candidate reactions is often computationally prohibitive, and no established criterion exists for selecting a reduced yet representative...
The field of developing effective catalysts for heterogeneous catalysis has recently focused on controlling the structures of catalysts themselves to optimise the density and energy of crystal lattice defects. This can significantly influence catalyt...
The study represents an innovative method to utilize the strong computational power of CMG-GEM, a numerical reservoir simulator coupled with artificial neural networks (ANNs) to predict carbon storage capacity in saline aquifers. The key parameters i...
The use of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) as biofertilizer in agriculture is a sustainable approach to fertilization. The first step in the production of AMF biofertilizer is inoculation of mycotrophic plants with a composite of soil and native p...
Industrial development has significantly increased the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, resulting in the greenhouse effect that harms the global climate and human health. CO2 sequestration in saline aquifers is considered to be one of the effi...
The duiker community in Central African rainforests includes a diversity of species that can coexist in the same area. The study of their activity patterns is needed to better understand habitat use or association between the species. Using camera tr...
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Zeolites and metal-doped zeolites are now widely considered as low-temperature hydrocarbon traps to be a part of emission control systems in automobiles. However, due to the high temperature of exhaust gases, the thermal stability of such sorbent mat...
Platelet hyper-reactivity and neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation contribute to the development of thromboembolic diseases for patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This study investigated the...
Carbon dioxide geological storage involves injecting captured CO2 streams into a suitable reservoir. Subsequent mineral trapping of the CO2 as carbonate minerals is one of the most secure forms of trapping. Injection of CO2 dissolved in water or co-i...
Mineral reactive surface area (RSA) is one of the key factors that control mineral reactions, as it describes how much mineral is accessible and can participate in reactions. This work aims to evaluate the impact of mineral RSA on numerical simulatio...
The increasing level of anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere has made it imperative to investigate an efficient method for carbon sequestration. Geological carbon sequestration presents a viable path to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by sequesterin...
Effective pest population monitoring is crucial in precision agriculture, which integrates various technologies and data analysis techniques for enhanced decision-making. This study introduces a novel approach for monitoring lures in traps targeting...
The performance of carbon geo-sequestration is influenced by several parameters, such as the heterogeneity of the reservoir, the characteristics of the caprock, the wettability of the rock, and the salinity of the aquifer brine. Although many charact...
Hand-held insect nets are the standard method for capturing vector mosquitoes of sylvatic arboviruses; however, occupational risks and biases due to individual skill and attractiveness are important limitations. The use of chemical attractants and au...
Deep saline aquifers are among the most promising formations for large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS); however, reservoir pressure buildup, limited CO2 dissolution, plume migration, and salt precipitation can reduce storage efficiency and inj...
This study used numerical simulations of CO2 storage to identify the benefits of horizontal wells for geological carbon storage, such as enhancing CO2 trapped in porous media due to relative permeability and capillary hysteresis. Two injection scheme...
Geological storage is one of the most important measures to reduce carbon emissions. The newly developed oilfield A in the Pearl River Mouth Basin of the South China Sea is associated with a large amount of CO2 with a purity of up to 95%. Two weakly...
The geological storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) in offshore saline aquifers stands as a primary option for reducing CO2 emissions in coastal regions. China’s coastal regions, particularly Shandong and Jiangsu provinces, face significant challeng...
CO2 geological storage (CGS) is critical for mitigating emissions in hard-to-abate industries under carbon neutrality. However, its implementation faces significant challenges. This paper examines CO2-trapping mechanisms and proposes key safety measu...
Concerns regarding the environmental impact of increasing levels of anthropogenic carbon dioxide have led to a variety of studies examining solid surfaces for their ability to trap this greenhouse gas (GHG). Atmospheric or post-combustion carbon capt...
Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells represent one of the most interesting systems for converting hydrogen from fossil or renewable fuels into electric power at low temperature. To prevent poisoning of fuel cell anodes, CO concentration has to b...
The economic efficacy of logistics infrastructure is being reshaped by the dual forces of digitalization and the labor market. However, a new-era “investment return paradox” has emerged. Digitalization and an abundant labor force are theo...
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions resulting from natural gas flaring are significant contributors to atmospheric greenhouse gases, posing a substantial risk to the Earth’s climate by exacerbating global warming. As a response, both the oil industr...
High-CO2 natural gas reservoirs present a dual challenge: recovering methane economically while retaining CO2 securely. The capacity of overlying saline aquifers to combine in situ CO2 retention with CH4 recovery remains poorly quantified. This study...
SARS-CoV-2 is a member of the family of coronaviruses associated with severe outbreaks of respiratory diseases in recent decades and is the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic. The recognition by and activation of the innate immune response recr...
During CO2 storage in deep saline aquifers, low-permeability lenticular shale layers alter CO2 migration and affect dissolution trapping, but their impacts remain unclear. In this study, a two-dimensional radial numerical model coupling gas–bri...
Infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) leads to an adaptive immune response in the host and the formation of anti-SARS-CoV-2 specific antibodies. While IgG responses against SARS-CoV-2 have been characterized quit...
To mitigate global warming induced by excessive carbon dioxide emissions, carbon dioxide displacement technology for carbon utilization and storage has attracted growing attention. In this paper, laboratory displacement experiments combined with Nucl...
This study investigated the reactive transport modeling of CO2 injection into the Kazakhstan reservoir to identify mineralogical and porosity changes due to geochemical reactions. Additionally, sensitivity analysis was performed to test the effect of...
Depleted gas reservoirs with bottom water show significant potential for long-term CO2 storage. The residual gas influences mass-transfer dynamics, further affecting CO2 dissolution and convection in porous media. In this study, we conducted a series...
Reservoir characterization specific to CO2 storage is challenging due to the dynamic interplay of physical and chemical trapping mechanisms. The mineralization potential for CO2 in a given siliciclastic sandstone aquifer is controlled by the mineralo...
Reliable screening of geological CO2 storage sites requires methods that relate reservoir heterogeneity and injection history to screening indicators without running a full-physics simulation for every candidate scenario. This study presents a machin...
The European Union’s energy policy favors increasing the share of renewable energy in total energy production. In this context, the co-digestion of various waste streams seems an interesting option. This study aimed to determine the effect of s...
The possibility of impure carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration can reduce the cost of these projects and facilitate their widespread adoption. Despite this, there are a limited number of studies that address impure CO2 sequestration aspects. In this st...
Geological CO2 storage is essential to pathways to carbon neutrality, but its deployment depends on trustworthy estimates of storage capacity, injectivity, trapping, reactive evolution, and containment. Digital rock physics can provide pore-scale inp...
Traditional investigations of fluid flow in porous media often rely on a continuum approach, but this method has limitations as it does not account for microscale details. However, recent progress in imaging technology allows us to visualize structur...
Cardiovascular toxicity has emerged as the leading cause of death in patients undergoing cancer treatment. Thus, cardio-oncology (CO) care must also focus on the prevention and management of related cardiovascular (CV) complications caused by cancer...
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has resulted in significant mortality and burdening of healthcare resources. While initially noted as a pulmonary pathology, subsequent studies later identifi...
Sewage sludge (SS) generation and its management still pose a problem in many countries. Anaerobic co-digestion (AcD) of SS with grease trap sludge (GTS) and organic fraction of municipal sewage waste (OFMSW), which are two easily biodegradable subst...
The severity of the coronavirus disease in 2019 (COVID-19) is strongly linked to a dysregulated immune response. This fuels the fear of severe disease in patients with autoimmune disorders continuously using immunosuppressive/immunomodulating medicat...
COVID-19 disease is characterized by a dysregulation of the innate arm of the immune system. However, the mechanisms whereby innate immune cells, including neutrophils, become activated in patients are not completely understood. Recently, we showed t...
Polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) are the most abundant white blood cells in the circulation. These cells act as the fast and powerful defenders against environmental pathogenic microbes to protect the body. In addition, these innate inflammatory...
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