The efficient combined use of water and energy in long distance slurry pipelines is analyzed in light of the total cost function resulting from an energy and mass balance. Given a system throughput and a set of common ...

This study deals with the main environmental impacts and possible mitigation measures for many pipeline tracks, due to the mining of different substances in areas of interference between mining activities and mineral ...

This paper addresses the problem of scheduling a transmission pipeline carrying several petroleum products from a single oil refinery to a unique distribution center over a monthly horizon. The proposed approach is based ...

This paper investigates third party access regulatory issues in China's natural gas industry. We study the development of China's gas market-oriented reform and how third party access becomes a pressing issue in that ...

Pipelines are the safest and least expensive mode for transporting energy products over long distances. Refined products pipelines convey multiple oil derivatives from refineries to marketing terminals, usually through the ...

A succinct description of the particular conditions that have led to failures and damage of buried pipelines in Argentina is given in this article. The particular characteristics of soil, demographic evolution, original ...

Until a few years ago there had been no record of stress corrosion cracking (SCC) as a main cause of failures in Argentine pipelines, but as the pipeline system became of a certain age this mechanism started to have an ...

Loop pipelining is a technique that may offer significant performance improvements, being employed not only in conventional compilation targeting microprocessors, but also by High Level Synthesis (HLS) tools, targeting ...

Gas pipeline systems are one of the largest energy infrastructures in the world and are known to be very efficient and reliable. However, this does not mean they are prone to no risk. Corrosion is a significant problem in ...

Pipeline networks represent the major mode of transportation for crude oil and refined fuels. Recent data suggest that this trend will persist in coming years. A multiproduct pipeline network can be described as a set of ...