Stay Alert to Breakthrough Technology

Use Alerts to stay abreast of developments in your fields of interest. Not every alert will focus on breakthrough, of course. But browsing email alerts once a day for the occasional nugget is an effective use of your time.

TIP: Create Google® Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/) search alerts
One way to set up a Google Scholar® alert is to perform a search. On the results page, in the left hand sidebar, you will see a link titled Create Alert. Click the link and follow the simple instructions.

ANOTHER TIP: Explore alert options with other databases like ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) etc.
Setting up the alerts typically is similar to the Google Scholar® procedure.

• First, perform a search
• Second, click on the link that says “Create Alert,” or words to that effect.

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Here are some of the Google® Alerts I have created, based on my current interests …

["energy management" (petrochemical OR refinery)]
["π complexation"]
["carbon capture" petrochemical]
["ionic liquid"]
[intitle:desalting]
[allintitle: alkylation]
[hydrogen refinery]
[petrochemical (integrated OR integration OR integrating)]
["gas oil separation"]
[allintitle: diesel]
[allintitle: dibenzothiophene]

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And here is an article I was alerted to this morning …

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Petroleum Chemistry
October 2017, Volume 57, Issue 10, pp 904–907
Ozone-assisted oxidative desulfurization of light oil fractions
Authors
Authors and affiliations
A. V. Akopyan, D. A. Grigoriev, P. L. Polikarpova, E. A. Eseva, V. V. Litvinova, A. V. Anisimov, A. V. Akopyan
Moscow State UniversityMoscowRussia
Abstract
A catalytic system for oxidative desulfurization has been created, which is a transition metal salt bearing an organic ligand and capable of forming an active oxidative complex in the interaction with ozone and further oxidizing sulfur compounds present in fuel followed by the adsorption of the oxidation products on silica gel. In this case, a direct contact of ozone with the fuel is avoided, making the process safer. The effect of the reaction and ozonation conditions on the desulfurization process has been studied. Total sulfur content was decreased to 180 ppm for the straight-run gasoline fraction and to 900 ppm for the diesel fraction.
Original Russian Text © A.V. Akopyan, D.A. Grigoriev, P.L. Polikarpova, E.A. Eseva, V.V. Litvinova, A.V. Anisimov, 2017, published in Neftekhimiya, 2017, Vol. 57, No. 5, pp. 582–585.
Source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0965544117100024
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