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Poorly sorted sediments comprise very different particle sizes, resulting in a dense rock fabric wifh low porosify. As a resulf the connate water saturation is high, leaving little space for the storage of hydrocarbons. Conversely, a very well sorted sediment will have a large volume of space between the evenly sized components, a lower connate water saturation and hence a larger capacity to store hydrocarbons. Connate water is the water which remains in the pore space after the entry of hydrocarbons. 

An essential component of cell membranes are the lipids, lecithins, or phosphatidylcholines (PC). The typical ir-a behavior shown in Fig. XV-6 is similar to that for the simple fatty-acid monolayers (see Fig. IV-16) and has been modeled theoretically [36]. Branched hydrocarbons tails tend to expand the mono-layer [38], but generally the phase behavior is described by a fluid-gel transition at the plateau [39] and a semicrystalline phase at low a. As illustrated in Fig. XV-7, the areas of the dense phase may initially be highly branched, but they anneal to a circular shape on recompression [40]. The theoretical evaluation of these shape transitions is discussed in Section IV-4F. 

In general arenes resemble other hydrocarbons in their physical properties They are nonpolar insoluble in water and less dense than water In the absence of polar sub stituents mtermolecular forces are weak and limited to van der Waals attractions of the induced dipole/mduced dipole type... 

The hydrocarbon feed rate to the reactor also affects the burning kinetics in the regenerator. Increasing the reactor feed rate increases the coke production rate, which in turn requires that the air rate to the regenerator increase. Because the regenerator bed level is generally held constant, the air residence time in the dense phase decreases. This decrease increases the O2 content in the dilute phase and increases afterbum (Fig. 5). 

The primary weakness of the approach is that it does not apply to dense vapor releases, a categoiy which includes most hydrocarbon materials. Furthermore, the concentrations predicted are time-weighted averages, with instantaneous values potentially exceeding the average. Finally, the range of apphcabdity is typically from 0.1 to 10 km downwind from the release. 

In densely populated areas, traffic is responsible for massive exhausts of nitrous oxides, soot, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide. Traffic emissions also markedly contribute to the formation of ozone in the lower parts of the atmosphere. In large cities, fine particle exposure causes excess mortality which varies between one and five percent in the general population. Contamination of the ground water reservoirs with organic solvents has caused concern in many countries due to the persistent nature of the pollution. A total exposure assessment that takes into consideration all exposures via all routes is a relatively new concept, the significance of which is rapidly increasing. 

These figures can be used for predictive purposes to extrapolate average major incident conditions to situations under study, provided the actual conditions under study correspond reasonably well with average major incident conditions. Such a condition may be broadly described as a spill of some tens of tons of a hydrocarbon in an environment with local concentrations of obstructions and/or partial confinement, for example, the site of an average refinery or chemical plant with dense process equipment or the site of a railroad marshaling yard with a large number of closely parked rail cars. It must be emphasized that the TNT equivalencies listed above should not be used in situations in which average major incident conditions do not apply. 

Generally speaking, typical major incident conditions correspond to a release of some ten thousands of kilograms of some hydrocarbon at the site of a chemical plant or refinery that is characterized by the presence of obstructed and partially confined areas in the form of densely spaced equipment. The relative agreement with results derived from the multienergy method indicates that application of this concept is a reasonable approach for this case study. 

In addition, organics also may be found in boiler section iron oxide deposits taken from large process industry boiler plants. Here, the organics are more likely to be hydrocarbons, such as oil, tar, or petroleum coke, rather than inhibitor treatments. The various mixtures that form all become very insoluble with age and quite dense. 

The dense fluid that exists above the critical temperature and pressure of a substance is called a supercritical fluid. It may be so dense that, although it is formally a gas, it is as dense as a liquid phase and can act as a solvent for liquids and solids. Supercritical carbon dioxide, for instance, can dissolve organic compounds. It is used to remove caffeine from coffee beans, to separate drugs from biological fluids for later analysis, and to extract perfumes from flowers and phytochemicals from herbs. The use of supercritical carbon dioxide avoids contamination with potentially harmful solvents and allows rapid extraction on account of the high mobility of the molecules through the fluid. Supercritical hydrocarbons are used to dissolve coal and separate it from ash, and they have been proposed for extracting oil from oil-rich tar sands. 

Diamondoids, when in the solid state, melt at much higher temperatures than other hydrocarbon molecules with the same number of carbon atoms in their structures. Since they also possess low strain energy, they are more stable and stiff, resembling diamond in a broad sense. They contain dense, three-dimensional networks of covalent bonds, formed chiefly from first and second row atoms with a valence of three or more. Many of the diamondoids possess structures rich in tetrahedrally coordinated carbon. They are materials with superior strength-to-weight ratio. 

The desired low mobility ratio (approaching 1) could be achieved by the viscosification of C02. This prompted the search for compounds which can dissolve in and viscosify dense C02 and nonpolar hydrocarbons. 

It is possible that electrons are not the major carrier of negative charge in dense interstellar clouds. It has been suggested that if a large fractional abundance of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) exists throughout dense interstellar clouds (see Section I), then electron sticking reactions of the type,... 

A much more detailed and time-dependent study of complex hydrocarbon and carbon cluster formation has been prepared by Bettens and Herbst,83 84 who considered the detailed growth of unsaturated hydrocarbons and clusters via ion-molecule and neutral-neutral processes under the conditions of both dense and diffuse interstellar clouds. In order to include molecules up to 64 carbon atoms in size, these authors increased the size of their gas-phase model to include approximately 10,000reactions. The products of many of the unstudied reactions have been estimated via simplified statistical (RRKM) calculations coupled with ab initio and semiempirical energy calculations. The simplified RRKM approach posits a transition state between complex and products even when no obvious potential barrier... 

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