Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordEffects of the Mass Transfer Process in Oil SpillFabián Betancourt, Arturo Palacio, Alejandro RodriguezA revision of the models used to study the behavior of the mass loss processes associated with petroleum spills on water and to compare those models with experimental data. The processes of mass transfer studied in this work are evaporating, dissolution, vertical dispersion, emulsification and the changes of properties associated with these. The comparison of the estimations with the field … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 5 · 31 May 2005 · 7,502 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordBy-pass Devices as Effective Means of Protection from the Hydraulic HammerKhalid S. Al-RababaSwitching-off the parallel working pump units causes sudden discharge changes in parallel pipe lines, as a result of that hydraulic shocks takes place. The damping of these shocks can be achieved by the installation of the by-pass devices between the parallel lines of the piping system. The analytical calculations demonstrate that the reduction in hydraulic shocks reaches 40% and considerable … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 2 · 28 Feb 2005 · 6,912 accessesView PDFCite