ExxonMobil

About: ExxonMobil is a company organization based out in Irving, Texas, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catalysis & Polymer. The organization has 16969 authors who have published 23758 publications receiving 535713 citations. The organization is also known as: Exxon Mobil Corporation & Exxon Mobil Corp..

Organic matter–hosted pore system, Marcellus Formation (Devonian), Pennsylvania

Abstract: The Marcellus Formation of Pennsylvania represents an outstanding example of an organic matter (OM)–hosted pore system; most pores detectable by field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) are associated with OM instead of mineral matrix. In the two wells studied here, total organic carbon (TOC) content is a stronger control on OM-hosted porosity than is thermal maturity. The two study wells span a maturity from late wet gas (vitrinite reflectance [Ro], 1.0%) to dry gas (Ro, 2.1%). Samples with a TOC less than 5.5 wt. % display a positive correlation between TOC and porosity, but samples with a TOC greater than 5.5 wt. % display little or no increase in porosity with a further increasing TOC. In a subset of samples (14) across a range of TOC (2.3–13.6 wt. %), the pore volume detectable by FE-SEM is a small fraction of total porosity, ranging from 2 to 32% of the helium porosity. Importantly, the FE-SEM–visible porosity in OM decreases significantly with increasing TOC, diminishing from 30% of OM volume to less than 1% of OM volume across the range of TOC. The morphology and size of OM-hosted pores also vary systematically with TOC. The interpretation of this anticorrelation between OM content and SEM-visible pores remains uncertain. Samples with the lowest OM porosity (higher TOC) may represent gas expulsion (pore collapse) that was more complete as a consequence of greater OM connectivity and framework compaction, whereas samples with higher OM porosity (lower TOC) correspond to rigid mineral frameworks that inhibited compactional expulsion of methane-filled bubbles. Alternatively, higher TOC samples may contain OM (low initial hydrogen index, relatively unreactive) that is less prone to development of FE-SEM–detectable pores. In this interpretation, OM type, controlled by sequence-stratigraphic position, is a factor in determining pore-size distribution.

Granular flow down an inclined plane: Bagnold scaling and rheology

Abstract: We have performed a systematic, large-scale simulation study of granular media in two and three dimensions, investigating the rheology of cohesionless granular particles in inclined plane geometries, i.e., chute flows. We find that over a wide range of parameter space of interaction coefficients and inclination angles, a steady-state flow regime exists in which the energy input from gravity balances that dissipated from friction and inelastic collisions. In this regime, the bulk packing fraction (away from the top free surface and the bottom plate boundary) remains constant as a function of depth z, of the pile. The velocity profile in the direction of flow vx(z) scales with height of the pile H, according to vx(z) proportional to H(alpha), with alpha=1.52+/-0.05. However, the behavior of the normal stresses indicates that existing simple theories of granular flow do not capture all of the features evidenced in the simulations.

IARC Monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans: Some traditional herbal medicines, some mycotoxins, naphthalene and styrene

Abstract: Members Ahti Anttila, Finnish Cancer Registry, Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological Cancer Research, Liisankatu 21 B, 00170 Helsinki, Finland Ramesh V. Bhat, National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Jamai-Osmania PO, Hyderabad-500 007 AP, India James A. Bond, Chemico-Biological Interactions, Toxcon, 5505 Frenchmans Creek, Durham, NC 27713, USA Susan J. Borghoff, CIIT Centers for Health Research, 6 Davis Drive, Box 12137, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2127, USA F. Xavier Bosch, Epidemiology Unit and Cancer Registry, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Av. Gran via s/n, Km. 2.7, 08907 L’Hospitalet del Llobregat, Spain Gary P. Carlson, School of Health Sciences, 1338 Civil Engineering Building, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1338, USA Marcel Castegnaro, Les Collanges, 07240 Saint-Jean-Chambre, France George Cruzan, ToxWorks, 1153 Roadstown Road, Bridgeton, NJ 08302-6640, USA Wentzel C.A. Gelderblom, Programme on Mycotoxins and Experimental Carcinogenesis, Medical Research Council (MRC), PO Box 19070, Tygerberg, South Africa 7505 Ulla Hass, Institute of Food Safety and Toxicology, Morkhoj Bygade 19, 2860 Soborg, Denmark Sara H. Henry, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD 20740-3835, USA Ronald A. Herbert, Laboratory of Experimental Pathology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, PO Box 12233, Mail Drop B3-08, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2233, USA Marc Jackson, Integrated Laboratory Systems, Inc., PO Box 13501, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA IARC WORKING GROUP ON THE EVALUATION OF CARCINOGENIC RISKS TO HUMANS: SOME TRADITIONAL HERBAL MEDICINES, SOME MYCOTOXINS, NAPHTHALENE AND STYRENE