Many accidents involve biphasic release of hazardous chemicals into the atmosphere; they are often stored and transported in the form of liquefied gas under its saturated pressure. In these cases, in the contact with the ...

The textile industries are, in general, major water consumers, mainly due to their garment dyeing processes, consequently, the textile industries are presented as great effluent generators. These effluents are associated ...

The okra is a vegetable present the whole year being quite consumed in several parts of the world. However, it presents short shelf life generating post-harvest losses. Thus drying is an alternative to minimize waste. ...

The analysis of crystallization processes considering an entropic perspective is the primary purpose of this paper. Although the modeling of crystallization processes is well established in the literature, the entropic ...

In the world actual economy, Brazil appears as the biggest occidental market for ceramic tiles covers and as the third major world exporter of these products. Inserted in this scenery, the state of Sergipe is nowadays one ...

Air pollution is now considered one of the greatest problems of contemporary society, because it threatens their quality of life, as it creates negative impacts on the natural and anthropic environment. In the present ...

The ceramic tile sector has showing high increasing indexes in the last years, what ratify the position of Brazil as one of the principal world producer and great exporter, in potential. Although this increasing came ...

With world-wide the energy crisis and the heating of the planet Land, the search for alternative, clean, biodegradable fuels became interesting, renewed and with lesser costs in its production in relation to the oil diesel, ...

A study of the effects of cure-treatment on some rheological propert ies of esmectite clays, which may be used as thixotropric fluid in petroleum drilling, was made on two samples of lightgreen and red colour smectite clays ...

The West Indian cherry {Malpighia emarginata DC) also called acerola, has been cultivated in Brazil since more than fifty years ago. It has an ascorbic acid content a hundred time greater then the orange's one. Then, the ...