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Air injection technology, including high?pressure air injection and in-situ combustion, is an effective method for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). It is widely accepted that, in an air injection process, the oxidation of crude oil plays an important role in the displacement mechanism in an in-situ combustion process. In recent years, thermal analysis techniques have become highly important tools for the investigation of crude oil combustion. Thermogravimetry (TG/DTG) have been widely used to characterize the oxidatio...

The paramagnetic properties of core samples from the section of the reference well was investigated on the basis of a representative sample (204 samples, along 1562, 9? ? 1478,4m depth and 84,5m powerful) by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) for mineral associations of the Liven horizon of the Upper Devonian deposits of the Volga-Ural region of the Republic of Tatarstan. In fact, according to the results of the EPR studies, the Liven?s horizon is a continuation of the regressive cycle of calcareous deposits of...

The Volga?Ural petroliferous basin is the oldest oil producing region of Russia. Therefore, most of the major oil and gas fields of traditional types here are already at the final stage of production. This provides for the increasing interest to develop unconventional resources of hydrocarbons associated with potential resources of the Upper Devonian?Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) Domanik-type sedimentary formations. This study focused on the geomechanical and petrophysical evaluation of the Domanik Formation a...

Archaeological objects, such as fortification ramparts and burial mounds are widely spread on the Russian Plain and commonly buried soils have well preserved beneath. For Late Holocene, especially after 2500 BP, the climatic trends for the Russian Plain are still uncertain. Chronosequences of surface soils and soils buried under defensive ramparts of ancient settlements Mukhino, Ksizovo and Degtevoe in the Central Forest-Steppe zone, Lipetsk region was studied. Five defensive earthworks differ in age from 2500 to ...

One of the main contaminants in groundwater of South Russia is nitrate and being one of the essential problems of water providing system needs a solution. It was in 1981 when World Organization of Health pointed on necessity nitrate studying soil and water. Estimation of nitrate contamination in groundwater, used in housekeeping, of Rostov region was held. Results give an opportunity to find out and estimate tendency of changing quantity of contaminant in groundwater and can be regarded as foundation for further e...

The Giurgiu-Ruse Bridge, also known as ?The Friendship Bridge?, is one of the two bridges over the Danube River, which links Romania and Bulgaria aside with the Calafat ? Vidin Bridge. Between 2014 and 2016 the Romanian side of the Giurgiu-Ruse Bridge was retrofitted. After finishing the works, static and dynamic trials were done in order to attest the behavior of the structure under test loads. The superstructure of the access viaducts is made up of independent upper carriageway steel decks, simply supported beam...

Many European regeneration projects in large urban distressed areas arise as the result of industrial dismissal sites, ensuing unemployment, poverty, environmental damage and social exclusion. In order to contribute to the development of innovative policies for integrated regeneration and renewal of depressed urban areas, the paper addresses the experience of the London?s South Bank project. Several integrated and complex projects have converted this area (formerly home to factories and working-class houses) into ...

The research focuses on the potential of topographic elevations by means of aerial scanning with the help of drones, as an alternative for creating and completing the existing map database necessary for works in almost all fields of activity that concern the national economy. Research objectives are geared towards developing methodologies that use digital systems and geospatial data to update, complete and store the information needed for thematic mapmaking and identifying the most appropriate geospatial technolog...

The land subsidence caused by underground mining results in the transformation of water relations in the catchment. The purpose of the research is to determine the impact of the subsidence basin on changes in the water cycle. Detailed research was carried out in the city of Bytom, in the Karb district where one of the most spectacular subsidence basins on the Silesian Upland (southern Poland) emerged. As part of the study, the geological structure of the area was examined and a detailed geomorphological and hydrol...

This paper describes the design of a new product, conceived by the authors, part of a research contract and of a technological transfer, from university to the industrial market. It is a low voltage class C surge-arrester, based only on metal-oxide varistors, designed for low voltage residential equipment. Located in the indoor interior connection boxes, it could protect the whole installation against any type of occurring overvoltage (pulsed or long time one). The results of the applicative research were transfer...

Cabernet Sauvignon variety is one of the most widespread grapes varieties for winemaking grown in Romania. By application of clonal selection, five clones of Cabernet Sauvignon have been obtained and omologated in Romania. The present study aimed to characterize the quality of wines obtained from three Cabernet Sauvignon clones, namely Cabernet Sauvignon 30 Vl., 131 St. and 54 Mn. in the Valea Calugareasca viticultural area, considering the extension of their culture and market potential. The experiments were carr...

The authors present the results of the research on the variability of selected physicochemical properties and discharge of medicinal waters in Ladek-Zdroj. The medicinal waters are exploited by five natural springs and one deep L-2 well. Based on previous studies, it was found that there are strong hydraulic bonds between particular intakes of thermal waters. The nature of these correlations indicates that medicinal thermal waters are recharged from one fissure deposit of deep circulation system. The main factors ...

Seismic sources location is one of the main tasks of seismology (determination of earthquake hypocenters) and this is the main task in microseismic monitoring of hydraulic fracturing. When choosing a method for microseismic monitoring, noise immunity is one of the main parameters, which should be considered in order to obtain reliable results. The article is referred to the location of a point seismic source by the Diffraction Stacking method applied to synthetic signals obtained using 2D numerical simulation of s...

Combination of domes and synform structures is a normal structural paragenesis of the Precambrian granulitic terranes. Structure of ore fields depends on deformations, related to granitic-domical tectonics. Deposits are usually confined to synforms framing domes. Such localization indicates motion and concentration of ore material in connection with tectonic transport on shoulders of emerged domes and transformations of rocks as a result of effect of rheomorphic granitoid mass [1]. Deposits of iron (with cobalt an...

Cave rescue operations are difficult and very complex. One of the most important factors that affect the effectiveness of cave rescue operations is pre-planning. 3D modelling of caves provides new opportunities for it. Terrestrial laser scanning was used to create 3D model of Diabla Dziura in Bukowiec Cave. Three types of stretchers, used by local Mountain Rescue Service, were measured and scanned. The analysis consisted in a virtual ?transport of the patient? in a 3D model of the cave. Using this method, zones wh...

The article deals with the creation and verification of a new procedure for the determination of spatial objects contained in the VFP (land exchange format in the Czech Republic) necessary for complex landscaping and landscape protection by UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems). It focuses on verifying spatial accuracy on a pilot sample of data obtained by double scanning at the Obratan test site and establishing input parameters and conditions for site mapping so that the new method of unmanned aerial systems complies wi...

The Thar Desert is a part of the arid zone of north-western India and one of the major deserts in the subtropical belt, encompassing a total geographical area of 196 000 km2. Ongoing desertification with intense erosional actions removing unconsolidated surface cover to form desert pavement on one side, and co-acting mass sediment transfer with sand dunes formations on another side, as well as ground salinisation due to progressing regional aridification (mean annual precipitation 150?500 mm) pose major threats to...

Sports facilities need to be controlled at every stage of their implementation. Examples are certified athletic objects that must meet many conditions starting from the appropriate length treadmill arches that create it, the foundation of additional elements (jumps, viewports) to the declines in the track surface. Conducting measurements such an object requires a lot of work. Often before repair work, it is required to make detailed measurements of levelling. This allows you to determine the status of the current ...

Polish energy security is determined by numerous diverse factors. The country?s energy security level and the character of energy policy are significantly influenced by national resources, so the energy mix structure is mainly based on hard and brown coals. Other influential factors result from the political and economic situation in the region and the world. The European Union?s energy policy is directed at decarbonization and an increase in the share of renewable energy sources. How do the transformations threat...

The worlwide ascending demographic development automatically determined a growing demand of meat and other derived products from animals raised in livestock farms. Therefore, taking into consideration the fact that, every year, the need for animals food has increased, every compound feed factory (CFF) aims to obtain diversified formulas of final products, depending on the breed and the age of the animals that will be fed. To resist on the competitive market with this profile of production, all compound feeds facto...

The gamma-ray logging method is one of the mandatory well logging methods for geophysical exploration of wells. However, during the conduct of such a study, the sensor, for one reason or another, may stop recording observations in the well. If a small number of values are missing, you can restore these values using standard methods to fill in gaps like in time series. If data miss a large number of values, observations usually are made again, which leads to additional financial costs. This work proposes an alterna...

The proposed paper analyzes an investment project implemented to create a complete, efficient, simple and sustainable Community waste management system for a number of settlements in the western part of Romania. The purpose of these actions is to create a functional intervention framework of the local public administration authorities in the field of environmental protection in the target area. The implementation of the system proposed by this project will lead to compliance with current environmental rules and le...

Unconventional energy sources have gained and will continue to gain a growing share of energy systems around the world, both because of the research effort and the political will involved in their development, and because of the price increase of energy obtained through traditional methods. In order to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the international energy transition process, Romania must undertake new directions for development in the energy sector. Conventional energy sources based on oil, coal ...

The use of electrical energy in potentially explosive atmospheres involves various particularities, fact for which there have been raised a lot of issues concerning the design, construction and exploitation of electrical equipment and installations intended to be used in these atmospheres. This paper presents the explosion protection principles implemented for the type of protection encapsulation ?m? which are based on the adoption of certain separations between the encapsulated circuits and the other circuits, by...

Today, trains are equipped with up to seven different navigational systems. Each is extremely costly and takes up space on-board. A train crossing from one European country to another must switch the operating standards as it crosses the border. All this adds to travel time and operational and maintenance costs. Together with other technical differences ? for instance in terms of rail gauge, electricity voltage, rolling stock design, etc. ? the existence of more than 20 train control systems in Europe has always b...

Buldan region is almost 45 km from Denizli (Western Turkey) province. Terrestrial sedimentary units are deposited throughout the Denizli Basin in age from the Early Miocene to Present. The coals are located in Middle Miocene K?z?lburun Formation consisting of conglomerate, sandstone and mudstone lithologies. Coal samples were studied using standard total organic carbon (TOC) and kerogen pyrolysis analysis of the whole rock samples and organic petrographic methods. Average TOC content, S1 and S2 values of investiga...

Seaweed extracts have many uses. Growth stimulation results obtained from different plant species are mentioned. Also, algae extracts are used to reduce biotic and abiotic stress. Salt stress is one of the most important factors decreasing the productivity of plants. High soil salinity can have a negative effect on major physiological processes. In our work, we investigated the response of Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. ?Berggold? plants treated with SuperFifty solution (1:1000 and 5:1000), under salt stress conditions...

With the steady rise of interest in blockchain and related technologies, researchers are making efforts to solve the remaining open questions in this field. One of the open problems is to achieve and maintain some desired characteristics of a private blockchain as far as the block generation rate is concerned. This problem is routed in statistical modeling. In this work, we will apply the results of participatory computing to build private blockchains and to resolve this issue. Private blockchains are important in...

The aim of the current research is to present an actual and overall picture of the arsenic (As) contamination of the soils in the Bulgarian part of the Danube floodplain between the Timok River and the Vit River including the following lowlands: Bregovo-Novoselska, Vidinska, Archaro-Orsoiska, Dolnotsibarska, Kozloduyska, Ostrovska and Chernopolska. One sampling campaign was carried in October 2017. The concentrations of As (mg/kg) were measured in <0.063 mm size fractions of 102 soil samples (56 samples from 0-20 ...

The use of UAVs is becoming more and more common today. Otherwise, it is not in the field of modern geodesy only, where this technology is already commonly used to facilitate certain types of work. Especially for jobs that do not require extra high precision, work in large areas, or work in poorly accessible places. This article focuses on comparing point clouds produced by the UAV measurement with terrestrial laser scanning point cloud and determining the results precision according to a number of ground control ...

The example of ecologists? educational programs creating of Bachelor and Master levels in the Kherson State University is offered in the article. The priority of higher education defined environmental training of personnel competent in solving the problems of the Ukraine Black Sea region. Established the following key subject areas of educational projects: rational use of natural resources; optimization of nature management in the coastal zone of the Black and Azov Sea; ecological safety; conservation of biodivers...

The article contains information on methods of agricultural products quality control, as well as on the model of a robotic complex designed for sorting potatoes. A distinctive feature of the proposed complex is using the methods of active non-destructive thermal control and technology of technical vision in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as in the near (NIR) and middle (MIR) ranges of the infrared spectrum. The complex is based on using a roller conveyor providing rotational and transla...

The use of risk analysis methods in evaluating mining landscape. Mining landscape and landscape affected by mining activities is typical for the Moravian-Silesian Region. It is caused by coal mining, which took place on a large amount of territory in the past. Currently the mining is reduced, however, the effects of undermining will continue to persist in the area affected by mining activities. The development of mining is also closely related to the development of industry and industrial production. For evaluatio...

Earthworms of species Eisenia fetida (Savigny 1826) (red wiggler worm), are known as eaters of a large range of organic matter, being considered from this point of view real solvers of several issues regarding the wastes management. This study intended to show that paper wastes (copy paper) can be eaten by earthworms Eisenia fetida and thus this type of waste can be managed by introducing it into the diet of this earthworm species. The objectives of the study were two: 1) to determine the relationship existing bet...

The federal information system for providing state final certification and admission can be transformed from a tool of adherence to and compliance with the law in the sphere of admission to higher education programs as the basis for an automated information system for organizing a centralized competitive selection for Russian universities. The research shows that this system needs only a small modification in terms of expanding the list of stored information. At the same time, the technical capacity of the federal...

When documenting of existing bridges, object geometry knowledge is the highest importance. Complex construction documentation usually has limited spatial representation of the object, based on a limited number of basic forms of modeling, represented by edges, corners, planes and volume elements of the real object, and depending on the purpose, the model results must match within a certain accuracy with real object. Rehabilitation of bridges also involves the realization of detailed plans in situations where they n...

X-ray microtomography (?CT) has been increasingly popular among geoscientists interested in reservoir rocks? pore space, as it enables studying much more parameters than solely the porosity. Because carbonate rocks can be dramatically complex with respect to their permeability, porosity, and mineral composition ? they need advanced tools like ?CT to be studied in details. Petrographically and petrophysically variable carbonate sample withdrawn from the Bro?sko Reef, West Poland was examined by means of the ?CT-bas...

The conveyor belt as the composite is made of different materials to ensure its required mechanical properties that correspond to the handling characteristics of the transported material. The basic elements of the composite structures are top and bottom cover layer from rubber and carcass with fabric plies. The composite structure - the number and type of fabric plies, the type and thickness of cover layers or the bumpers is designed according to the specific mining conditions. The bumper is designed to absorb the...

Endophytic bacteria can improve the growth and development of plants, and also prevent the growth or activity of plant pathogens, reduce the aggressiveness or causative agent. Endophyte bacteria can be specific depending on the host. The properties of the microorganisms colonizing tissues of various plants can vary greatly. Therefore, the study of endophytes present in plants is of great interest because of their possible subsequent use in order to increase the productivity of plants and protect them from pathogen...

The fundamental element to be ensured during laboratory tests is the control of the boundary conditions in terms of stress, strain and drainage conditions. The determination of the effective stresses is inherently associated with full saturation of soil specimen, as it allows to apply the Terzaghi's principle of effective stress. This paper describes the influence of partial saturation of soil on shear strength and deformation properties obtained from laboratory tests. The use of back pressure method, as the most ...

This paper intents to present some of our results concerning a CAD based application which can provide a simple architectural procedure for the refurbishment of existing and abandoned courtyards in the historical center of Timisoara, Romania. Starting from the Local Urbanism Plan Map, this application could import the AutoCAD quotes and, based on these elements, could automatically add architectural elements, especially green areas, or other architectural objects, without using sophisticated architectural programs...

After the reopening of the ancient Roman mines of La Zarza and Tharsis by the French engineer Deligny, it was necessary to fall back on rudimentary means of transport by horses or using the river. However, when reaching higher production levels, it was necessary to resort to more efficient means. Thus, in addition to the execution of the new railway line that linked both mining operations with the dock-pier of Corrales, many railway stations, small stops and modest housing were carried out for those in charge of t...

The development of dangerous hydrogeological processes takes place as a result of the action of climatic factors and of unfavourable technogenic conditions. One of the reasons of the worsening quality of land resources is the salination of soils by chemical compounds (chlorides, sulphides, carbonates) from ground and surface waters and the non-rational irrigation which results in worsening useful properties of soil. With the aim of decreasing or avoiding soils salination hydro-ameliorative measures are used which ...

The paper refers to the evaluation and calculation of the uncertainty of measurement in the calibration of secondary standard volume measures, with a ruler on the neck, which equips standard installation for liquids flow meter verification. Calibration involves assigning actual values to certain nominal values, materialized on a standard scale. For the design and construction of a secondary volume measure, it is necessary to take into account all metrological requirements related to the shape and materials from wh...

Permeable pavements are among the most diffused Low Impact Development techniques (LID). Several studies have confirmed the optimal performance of permeable pavements in terms of peak reduction and water retention. Furthermore, permeable pavements have proven to reduce pollutant load in runoff water. Although the benefits are evident, the transition from traditional urban drainage systems to the sustainable ones is very slow. The lack of accurate modelling tools represents a key limiting factor in the diffusion of...

In-situ combustion process has been proven to be an effective enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method for heavy oils. However, until now, the in-situ combustion is still not widely used as steam injection is. The main reason that limits the wide application of in-situ combustion process is the unclear understanding of its complicated combustion and displacement process that is mainly controlled by the oxidation of crude oil. The complicated composition of crude oil makes it difficult to understand the oxidation mechani...

The research is focused on the elemental composition of humic acids (HAs) extracted from sapropel found in lakes of the Middle Priobye and the southern Ob-Irtysh basin of West Siberia. Particular attention is given to the fact that sapropel samples were formed under various hydrothermal and environmental conditions. The peculiar features of HA elemental composition, which are evident in element content, atomic ratio and oxidation degree, were revealed. They indicate the relationship between aromatic and aliphatic ...

Scientific codes are usually highly parallelised and executed on heterogeneous architectures. Nowadays, it is common to use graphics accelerators (GPUs) to speed up data-parallel algorithms, and in the meantime, the already existing CPUs can help in this work. Distributing the jobs between systems is always a difficult problem, especially when the processing units have different runtime environments and hardware architectures. There are several attempts for static and dynamic load balancing, but most of these are ...

The advancement of tracking technologies such as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) in recent years supported the study area of shopping behavior of consumers in retailing setting has globally regained increased interest. However, only few studies have attempted to analyze consumer shopping behavior using the RFID data. The purpose of this paper is to propose the framework based on behavioral and environmental variables, which can be tested using the RFID data obtained from the recent experiment in one of the s...

The particularities of the hydraulic system of the roof supports are determined by the repetitive structure specific to the supporting component, by the supply network, by the operating liquid and by the length of the coalface, as well as by the operation principle of the pumping station supplying the execution elements with the average flow given by the load and the resistance of the hydraulic networks. The paper highlights all these particularities bringing forward a series of practical details for calculation o...