[HTML][HTML] New innovations in pavement materials and engineering: A review on pavement engineering research 2021

JE Office, J Chen, H Dan, Y Ding, Y Gao, M Guo… - Journal of Traffic and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Sustainable and resilient pavement infrastructure is critical for current economic and
environmental challenges. In the past 10 years, the pavement infrastructure strongly …

A comprehensive guide of remediation technologies for oil contaminated soil—present works and future directions

MW Lim, E Von Lau, PE Poh - Marine pollution bulletin, 2016 - Elsevier
Oil spills result in negative impacts on the environment, economy and society. Due to tidal
and waves actions, the oil spillage affects the shorelines by adhering to the soil, making it …

Comprehensive review on toxicity of persistent organic pollutants from petroleum refinery waste and their degradation by microorganisms

SJ Varjani, E Gnansounou, A Pandey - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
Control and prevention of environmental pollution has become a worldwide issue of
concern. Aromatic hydrocarbons including benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, xylene (BTEX) …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular dynamics simulation of oil detachment from hydrophobic quartz surfaces during steam-surfactant Co-injection

M Ahmadi, Z Chen - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
In-situ recovery of bitumen involves high-temperature conditions yielded by a steam
injection process, making it costly to produce, along with an extensive environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Indices for self-healing performance assessments based on molecular dynamics simulation of asphalt binders

D Sun, T Lin, X Zhu, Y Tian, F Liu - Computational Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Understanding the self-healing mechanism and efficiently evaluating healing potential of
asphalt materials is a crucial topic, which is especially necessary for a precise prediction of …

Insight into the interfacial behavior of surfactants and asphaltenes: molecular dynamics simulation study

M Ahmadi, Z Chen - Energy & Fuels, 2020 - ACS Publications
Heavy oil and bitumen drive the leading energy supply in Canada. Several techniques,
including in situ thermal methods and mining, have been applied to the recovery of these …

Understanding the effect of pH on the solubility and aggregation extent of humic acid in solution by combining simulation and the experiment

T Lan, P Wu, Z Liu, M Stroet, J Liao, Z Chai… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed to investigate the dynamics of humic
acid (HA) in an aqueous solution and the influence of pH, temperature, and HA …

Spotlight onto surfactant–steam–bitumen interfacial behavior via molecular dynamics simulation

M Ahmadi, Z Chen - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Heavy oil and bitumen play a vital role in the global energy supply, and to unlock such
resources, thermal methods, eg, steam injection, are applied. To improve the performance of …

[HTML][HTML] Interfacial and molecular interactions between fractions of heavy oil and surfactants in porous media: Comprehensive review

M Ahmadi, Q Hou, Y Wang, Z Chen - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
The oil production by the natural energy in oil reservoirs is decreasing gradually. Only 25–
30% of the world's reservoirs can be produced naturally, and different methods are …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrocarbons in soils: origin, composition, and behavior

AN Gennadiev, YI Pikovskii, AS Tsibart… - Eurasian Soil Science, 2015 - Springer
It has been shown that a large body of evidence on the sources, transformation, and
migration of hydrocarbons in soils has been acquired by different researchers. Available …