Sensors for detection of production chemicals and oil in produced water

AM Pasqualeti, FM Shimizu, LP de Oliveira… - TrAC Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The oil and gas industry produces millions of barrels of crude oil and a byproduct called"
produced water" daily. Unfortunately, this waste product is harmful to the environment …

Alcohol-triggered capillarity through porous pyrolyzed paper-based electrodes enables ultrasensitive electrochemical detection of phosphate

FM Shimizu, AM Pasqualeti, CYN Nicoliche… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The sensing field has shed light on an urgent necessity for field-deployable, user-friendly,
sensitive, and scalable platforms that are able to translate solutions into the real world. Here …

Toward Efficient Biofuel Production: A Review of Online Upgrading Methods for Biomass Pyrolysis

X Pan, S Wu, J Chen, X Zhou, X Chen, Z Xin… - Energy & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The reduction in fossil fuel reserves has driven the scientific community and industrial
stakeholders to seek alternative renewable energy sources. Additionally, the detrimental …

Efficient separation of V (V) and Cr (VI) in aqua by microemulsion extraction

Y Guo, HY Li, J Huang, S Shen, CJ Wang… - Separation and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Separation of V (V) and Cr (VI) in aqua is intensively demanded in consideration of full
resource utilization and environmental safety of vanadium extraction industry, which is …

Turbulence in microfluidics: cleanroom-free, fast, solventless, and bondless fabrication and application in high throughput liquid-liquid extraction

CL de Camargo, LS Shiroma, GF Giordano… - Analytica chimica …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper addresses an important breakthrough in the deployment of ultra-high adhesion
strength microfluidic technologies to provide turbulence at harsh flow rate conditions. This …

Development of triptolide self-microemulsifying drug delivery system and its anti-tumor effect on gastric cancer xenografts

M Xie, J Wu, L Ji, X Jiang, J Zhang, M Ge… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Purpose: To develop a triptolide (TP) self-microemulsifying drug delivery system and to
investigate its anti-tumor effect on human gastric cancer line MGC80-3 xenografts in nude …

Smartphone for point-of-care quantification of protein by bradford assay

CL Camargo, MBR Vicentini, AL Gobbi… - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
We address in this paper a powerful point-of-care platform to conduct the Bradford assay.
Our method was based on smartphone for colorimetric quantification of total protein in …

Microemulsification-based method enables field-deployable quantification of oil in produced water

RAG de Oliveira, RM Carvalho, AL Gobbi, RS Lima - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
The oil and gas industry involves the generation of a large amount of produced water (PW),
which incorporates chemicals of ecological concern such as petroleum compounds (oil) that …

Turbulence-Assisted High-Throughput Liquid–Liquid Extraction in Microfluidics and Ni(OH)2 Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Determination of Monoethylene Glycol …

GF Giordano, CL de Camargo, LCS Vieira… - Energy & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
While monoethylene glycol (MEG) is an efficient alternative to prevent the generation of
hydrates into the natural gas (NG) processing pipes, this specie also generates undesirable …

An integrated platform for gas-diffusion separation and electrochemical determination of ethanol on fermentation broths

GF Giordano, LCS Vieira, AL Gobbi, RS Lima… - Analytica chimica …, 2015 - Elsevier
An integrated platform was developed for point-of-use determination of ethanol in sugar
cane fermentation broths. Such analysis is important because ethanol reduces its fuel …