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Gulf oil spill
Describes the events of 2010 after an oil rig toppled over in the Gulf of Mexico, releasing millions of gallons of oil into the water.
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Deadly explosion hits busy shopping district in Istanbul
An explosion ripped through a busy shopping thoroughfare in Istanbul on Nov. 13, killing several people and injuring dozens.
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Blizzard of glass : the Halifax explosion of 1917
Recounts the story from World War I in which two towns were leveled and almost two thousand people killed following the collison of two warships in Halifax Harbour and a blizzard that dumped over a foot of snow in the area.
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Explosion rocks bridge between Crimea and Russia
An explosion sparked a massive fire on the Crimean Bridge on Oct. 8, disrupting a crucial supply route for Russia’s war effort in Ukraine.
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Run to failure : BP and the making of the Deepwater Horizon disaster
Discusses how the CEO of British Petroleum, John Browne, helmed one of the greatest corporate comebacks in history only to have it fall apart due to deadly accidents and environmental crimes, culminating in the Deepwater Horizon disaster-- Source other than Library of Congress .
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Green methods of lignocellulose pretreatment for biorefinery development
Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant, low-cost, bio-renewable resource that holds enormous importance as alternative source for production of biofuels and other biochemicals that can be utilized as building blocks for production of new materials. Enzymatic hydrolysis is an essential step involved in the bioconversion of lignocellulose to produce fermentable monosaccharides. However, to allow the enzymatic hydrolysis, a pretreatment step is needed in order to remove the lignin barrier and break down the crystalline structure of cellulose. The present manuscript is dedicated to reviewing the most commonly applied “green” pretreatment processes used in bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomasses within the “biorefinery” concept. In this frame, the effects of different pretreatment methods on lignocellulosic biomass are described along with an in-depth discussion on the benefits and drawbacks of each method, including generation of potentially inhibitory compounds for enzymatic hydrolysis, effect on cellulose digestibility, and generation of compounds toxic for the environment, and energy and economic demand.
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Industrial Dust Explosions. A Brief Review
This paper first addresses the question: what is a dust explosion? Afterwards, some specific issues are briefly reviewed: materials that can give dust explosions, factors influencing ignitability and explosibility of dust clouds, the combustion of dust clouds in air, ignition sources that can initiate dust explosions, primary and secondary dust explosions, dust flash fires, explosions of “hybrid mixtures”, and detonation of dust clouds. Subsequently, measures for dust explosion prevention and mitigation are reviewed. The next section presents the case history of an industrial dust explosion catastrophe in China in 2014. In the final section, a brief review is given of some current research issues that are related to the prevention and mitigation of dust explosions. There is a constant need for further research and development in all the areas elucidated in the paper.
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