Thursday, November 12, 2009

Gone Fishin': Casting for Information on Conoco

There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright

When I ran across a reference to ConocoPhillips’ desulfurization research activities in a Sulphco article, I was curious. So I went fishing for information in ScienceDirect (www.ScienceDirect.com). A simple search statement …

conoco sulfur

resulted in a number of hits, among which were ...

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
Volume 56, Issues 1-2, 10 March 2005, Pages 137-147
Deep desulfurization of gasoline by selective adsorption over solid adsorbents and impact of analytical methods on ppm-level sulfur quantification for fuel cell applications

Catalysis Today
Volume 116, Issue 4, 15 September 2006, Pages 554-561
Sulfur Removal to Produce Ultra Clean Fuel
Oxidation of sulfur components in diesel fuel using Fe-TAML® catalysts and hydrogen peroxide
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Volume 307, Issue 1, 1 March 2007, Pages 1-8
Selective adsorption of refractory sulfur species on active carbons and carbon based CoMo catalyst

Reading the full text of some of the “Conoco sulfur” articles should yield useful information that could then be used to design more specific search statements. But, as with real fishing, information angling sometimes produces disappointing results. That’s why it sometimes pays to hire someone else to do the fishing for you.

Do you have any fish stories? Submit a post, or contact me directly at: research@JeanSteinhardtConsulting.com

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