Numerous socio-economic benefits are associated with the oil industry. However, problems cannot be neglected, resulting in many accidents that can occur at any production stage of this industry. A serious problem created by this industry is environmental contamination by hydrocarbons. Gasoline in contact with infiltration water, the aromatic constituent...
View ArticleThis paper presents the development of an instrumented channel for two-dimensional multiphase flow of automotive fuels in unsaturated soils. Flow experiments were performed using water or diesel in an eolian sand at residual water saturation, a particular case of multiphase flow. Aspects such as the visual monitoring of the infiltration experiments and ...
View ArticleThe quartzite found in rock formations in the Southwestern Minas Gerais - Brazil has been, along the years, explored and commercialized as “coating stone”. The quantity of waste coming from the processing and exploration process, however, is superior to 90% from the extracted product in most of the mining sites, determining a serious...
View ArticleCompacted tropical soils have great potential to be used in barriers, once some technical issues are correctly addressed, including low hydraulic conductivity and compatibility to the disposed fluids. This paper involves a laboratorial
study of the hydraulic conductivity of mixtures of a tropical soil sample and bentonite and also their comp...
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