Petroleum Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Petroleum, including details on crude oil, extraction, chemistry, pollution.

Volume 4 (2008), Issue 3 (March)

1. Pretreatment of milk thistle seed to increase the silymarin yield: an alternative to petroleum ether defatting.
   Bioresour Technol, 99(7): 2501-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Construction and comparison of fluorescence and bioluminescence bacterial biosensors for the detection of bioavailable toluene and related compounds.
   Environ Pollut, 152(1): 123-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Antioxidant properties of methanol extract and its solvent fractions obtained from selected Indian red seaweeds.
   Bioresour Technol, 99(8): 2717-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Comparative studies of products produced from four different biomass samples via deoxy-liquefaction.
   Bioresour Technol, 99(8): 2778-86. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Gasoline on hands: preliminary study on collection and persistence.
   Forensic Sci Int, 175(2): 171-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. The effects of Fe(II) and Fe(III) concentration and initial pH on microbial leaching of low-grade sphalerite ore in a column reactor.
   Bioresour Technol, 99(8): 2840-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in livers of California sea otters.
   Chemosphere, 71(4): 649-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Site environmental assessment to an old paint factory in China.
   Environ Monit Assess, 139(1): 93-106. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. The concentrations, distribution and sources of PAHs in agricultural soils and vegetables from Shunde, Guangdong, China.
   Environ Monit Assess, 139(1): 61-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Thalassospira tepidiphila sp. nov., a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium isolated from seawater.
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 58: 711-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Colloid milium of the oral cavity: a rare presentation.
    Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod, 105(4): e34-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Responses of microbial communities in arctic sea ice after contamination by crude petroleum oil.
    Microb Ecol, 55(3): 540-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Quantifying Expression of a Dissimilatory (bi)Sulfite Reductase Gene in Petroleum-Contaminated Marine Harbor Sediments.
    Microb Ecol, 55(3): 489-99. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Development of a species-unspecific isotope dilution GC-ICPMS method for possible routine quantification of sulfur species in petroleum products.
    Anal Chem, 80(6): 1952-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Larvicidal efficacy of five cucurbitaceous plant leaf extracts against mosquito species.
    Parasitol Res. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Non-discriminating flash pyrolysis and thermochemolysis of heavily contaminated sediments from the Hamilton Harbor (Canada).
    J Chromatogr A, 1186(1): 211-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Monoaromatics removal from polluted water through bioreactors-A review.
    Water Res, 42(6): 1325-1341. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography for the analysis of oxygenates in middle distillates I. Determination of the nature of biodiesels blend in diesel fuel.
    J Chromatogr A, 1186(1): 236-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. The effect of crystallinity of cellulose on the rate of reducing sugars production by heterogeneous enzymatic hydrolysis.
    Bioresour Technol, 99(10): 4078-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Burns and fires from non-electric domestic appliances in low and middle income countries Part I. The scope of the problem.
    Burns, 34(3): 303-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Degradation rates of aged petroleum hydrocarbons are likely to be mass transfer dependent in the field.
    Environ Geochem Health, 30(2): 101-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Engineering biocatalysts for production of commodity chemicals.
    J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol, 15(1): 8-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Effect of nitrate injection on the bacterial community in a water-oil tank system analyzed by PCR-DGGE.
    J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol, 35(4): 251-255. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Assessment of genotoxicity of methyl-tert-butyl ether, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene to human lymphocytes using comet assay.
    J Hazard Mater, 153(1): 351-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Sulfide removal in petroleum refinery wastewater by chemical precipitation.
    J Hazard Mater, 153(1): 462-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Modulation of inflammatory responses by diterpene acids from Helianthus annuus L.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 369(2): 761-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. A-5021: a new acyclovir analogue inhibits murine herpetic keratitis.
    Cornea, 27(3): 334-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Radical Scavenging, Antibacterial, and Antiproliferative Activities of Melissa officinalis L. Extracts.
    J Med Food, 11(1): 133-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Modeling and simulation of ammonia removal from purge gases of ammonia plants using a catalytic Pd-Ag membrane reactor.
    J Hazard Mater, 153(1): 557-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Oxidative stress biomarkers of the polychaete Nereis diversicolor exposed to cadmium and petroleum hydrocarbons.
    Ecotoxicol Environ Saf, 70(1): 106-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Isolation and identification of mosquito larvicidal compound from Abutilon indicum (Linn.) Sweet.
    Parasitol Res, 102(5): 981-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Larvicidal activity of some Euphorbiaceae plant extracts against Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae).
    Parasitol Res, 102(5): 867-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Cytotoxic sesquiterpenoids from the ethanol extract of fruits of Celastrus orbiculatus.
    J Ethnopharmacol, 117(1): 175-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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