Caracterização morfológica e molecular de isolados virais obtidos de larvas do complexo Heliothinae.

2016

Dinâmica populacional da mosca-doschifres como ferramenta de predição da fixação da resistência a pesticidas.

Buscando-se estabelecer a dinâmica populacional da mosca-dos-chifres foi realizado o acompanhamento de dois rebanhos bovinos estabelecidos em regiões climáticas contrastantes, o que possibilitou identificar que além da temperatura e da precipitação, o número de dias de chuva apresenta influência direta na infestação sobre os animais e que sob as condições climáticas do trópico úmido, a mosca-dos-chifres tem a capacidade de produzir até cerca de 15 gerações anuais. Tais informações, associadas a realização de testes diagnósticos da resistência a pesticidas, tornam-se relevantes na elaboração de estratégias de controle para as populações da mosca-dos-chifres, uma vez que a capacidade anual da espécie em gerar descendentes no Brasil mostra-se favorável à rápida seleção de indivíduos resistentes as bases utilizadas em seu controle.

Potencial biotecnológico de bactérias endofíticas de milho.

Bactérias endofíticas são microrganismos que habitam o interior dos tecidos vegetais e são conhecidas promotoras do crescimento de plantas, favorecendo sua nutrição, pela solubilização de fosfatos, além de produzirem fito-hormônio, enzimas e sideróforos, apresentando potencial para uso como bioinoculantes. O objetivo deste trabalho foi isolar e caracterizar bactérias endofíticas de milho eficientes na solubilização de fosfatos de cálcio e de ferro e na produção de sideróforos, substâncias que atuam na captação de ferro.Para o isolamento das bactérias, foram coletadas plantas de milho no florescimento em área de cerrado, sendo estas posteriormente desinfestadas e maceradas para o isolamento dos endófitos. Foram isoladas 113 bactérias provenientes de raízes (54,9%), folhas (20,4%) e seiva de milho (24,8%). Dessas bactérias, 49 foram caracterizadas geneticamente com base na sequência do 16S rDNA e avaliadas quanto à capacidade de solubilização de fosfatos em meio de cultura líquido contendo fosfato de cálcio e de ferro e produção de sideróforos. Os isolados mais eficientes na solubilização de fosfato de cálcio e fosfato de ferro produziram entre 179,4 a 193,7 mgP. L-1 e 62,7 a 68,7 mg P. L-1, respectivamente. Foi observada uma correlação negativa de -0,58 e -0,48 entre a solubilização de fósforo nos dois fosfatos testados, P-Ca e P-Fe, e os valores de pH, respectivamente, indicando a produção de ácidos orgânicos como o principal mecanismo de solubilização de P. O sideróforo produzido por 69% dos microrganismos avaliados foi do tipo carboxilato. As bactérias endofíticas eficientes na solubilização de P foram identificadas principalmente como pertencentes ao gênero Bacillus e Pantoea. Foi possível concluir que as estirpes bacterianas provenientes do microbioma interno de milho cultivado em solo de cerrado possuem características promissoras de biossolubilização de fosfatos e promoção de crescimento de plantas, sendo possível neste estudo a seleção de seis isolados do gênero Bacillus para futuros testes de inoculação em plantas.

Importação e exportação de óleo e palmiste de dendezeiro no Brasil (2010-2015).

2016

Produtores comerciais de dendezeiros híbridos Interespecíficos (HIE - Oleifera X Guineensis) integrados à Denpasa, no Nordeste Paraense.

2016

Estudo paramétrico da recuperação de óleo no processo de drenagem gravitacional com injeção de CO2

The gas injection has become the most important IOR process in the United States. Furthermore, the year 2006 marks the first time the gas injection IOR production has surpassed that of steam injection. In Brazil, the installation of a petrochemical complex in the Northeast of Brazil (Bahia State) offers opportunities for the injection of gases in the fields located in the Recôncavo Basin. Field-scale gas injection applications have almost always been associated with design and operational difficulties. The mobility ratio, which controls the volumetric sweep, between the injected gas and displaced oil bank in gas processes, is typically unfavorable due to the relatively low viscosity of the injected gas. Furthermore, the difference between their densities results in severe gravity segregation of fluids in the reservoirs, consequently leading to poor control in the volumetric sweep. Nowadays, from the above applications of gas injection, the WAG process is most popular. However, in attempting to solve the mobility problems, the WAG process gives rise to other problems associated with increased water saturation in the reservoir including diminished gas injectivity and increased competition to the flow of oil. The low field performance of WAG floods with oil recoveries in the range of 5-10% is a clear indication of these problems. In order to find na effective alternative to WAG, the Gas Assisted Gravity Drainage (GAGD) was developed. This process is designed to take advantage of gravity force to allow vertical segregation between the injected CO2 and reservoir crude oil due to their density difference. This process consists of placing horizontal producers near the bottom of the pay zone and injecting gás through existing vertical wells in field. Homogeneous models were used in this work which can be extrapolated to commercial application for fields located in the Northeast of Brazil. The simulations were performed in a CMG simulator, the STARS 2007.11, where some parameters and their interactions were analyzed. The results have shown that the CO2 injection in GAGD process increased significantly the rate and the final recovery of oil

Automação da drenagem no teste de produção convencional em tanque cilíndrico

This document aims to improve the quality of the production test in vertical tanks with free water drain pipes, through a device to control the draining system. This proposal consists of an interface detector close to the tank bottle and a control valve on the pipe-drain; they are attached to a remote supervisor system, which will be minimizing the human influence in the conclusion of the test result. And for more consciousness the work shows the importance of the wells production test in the attendance and diagnosis of the productive process, informing the large number of tests executed and problems of the procedure adopted in the field today. There are many possible sources of uncertainty in this kind of test as shown in the experiments realized in the field; the object prototype of this dissertation will be made in the field, based upon the definition of parameters and characteristics of the devices proposal. For a better definition of the draining process the action results of the assessment test are shown, especially changed some for the understand ing of the real process. It shows the proposal details and the configuration that will be used in the tank of Monte Alegre s field Production Station, explaining the interface detector kind and the control system. It is the base to a pilot project now in development, named as the new project classified in the status of the new technology and production improvement of PETROBRAS in Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará. This dissertation concludes that the automation of the conventional test with the draining system will bring benefits both economically as metrologically, because it reduces the uncertainty of the test procedures with free water draining, and also decreases the number of tests with problems

Avaliação do desempenho econômico e do potencial de geração de renda da estrutura produtiva de pequena escala de dendezeiro híbrido interespecífico na mesorregião metropolitana de Belém, Pará.

2016

Germinação de sementes de feijão submetidas à submersão em água.

2015

Estudo comparativo da utilização do nitrogênio como fluido alternativo após a injeção de vapor

Currently, due to part of world is focalized to petroleum, many researches with this theme have been advanced to make possible the production into reservoirs which were classified as unviable. Because of geological and operational challenges presented to oil recovery, more and more efficient methods which are economically successful have been searched. In this background, steam flood is in evidence mainly when it is combined with other procedures to purpose low costs and high recovery factors. This work utilized nitrogen as an alternative fluid after steam flood to adjust the best combination of alternation between these fluids in terms of time and rate injection. To describe the simplified economic profile, many analysis based on liquid cumulative production were performed. The completion interval and injection fluid rates were fixed and the oil viscosity was ranged at 300 cP, 1.000 cP and 3.000 cP. The results defined, for each viscosity, one specific model indicating the best period to stop the introduction of steam and insertion of nitrogen, when the first injected fluid reached its economic limit. Simulations in physics model defined from one-eighth nine-spot inverted were realized using the commercial simulator Steam, Thermal and Advanced Processes Reservoir Simulator STARS of Computer Modelling Group CMG

Uma aplicação da apredizagem por reforço na otimização da produção em um campo de petróleo

The objective of reservoir engineering is to manage fields of oil production in order to maximize the production of hydrocarbons according to economic and physical restrictions. The deciding of a production strategy is a complex activity involving several variables in the process. Thus, a smart system, which assists in the optimization of the options for developing of the field, is very useful in day-to-day of reservoir engineers. This paper proposes the development of an intelligent system to aid decision making, regarding the optimization of strategies of production in oil fields. The intelligence of this system will be implemented through the use of the technique of reinforcement learning, which is presented as a powerful tool in problems of multi-stage decision. The proposed system will allow the specialist to obtain, in time, a great alternative (or near-optimal) for the development of an oil field known

Rejeito de xisto como adsorvente para remoção de fenol em águas produzidas na indústria de petróleo

Produced water is the main effluent linked to the activity of extraction of oil and their caring management is necessary due to the large volume involved, to ensure to minimize the negative impacts of discharges of these waters in the environment. This study aimed to analyze the use of retorted shale, which is a reject from the pyrolysis of pirobituminous shale, as adsorbent for the removal of phenols in produced water. The material was characterized by different techniques (grain sized analysis, thermal analysis, BET, FRX, FT-IR, XRD and SEM), showing the heterogeneity in their composition, showing its potential for the removal of varied compounds, as well as the phenols and their derivatives. For the analysis of the efficiency of the oil shale for the adsorption process, assays of adsorption balance were carried through, and also kinetic studies and dynamics adsorption, in the ETE of the UTPF of Petrobras, in Guamaré-RN. The balance assays shown a bigger conformity with the model of Langmuir and the kinetic model more adjusted to describe the adsorption of phenols in retorted shale was of pseudo-second order. The retorted shale presented a low capacity of adsorption of phenols (1,3mg/g), when related to others conventional adsorbents, however it is enough to the removal of these composites in concentrations presented in the produced water of the UTPF of Guamaré. The assays of dynamics adsorption in field had shown that the concentration of phenol in the effluent was null until reaching its rupture (58 hours). The results showed the possibility of use of the reject for removal of phenols in the final operations of the treatment process, removing as well, satisfactorily, the color and turbidity of the produced water, with more than 90% of removal

Caracterização ambiental de bancos areno-lamosos nos campos petrolíferos de Macau e Serra (RN), como subsídio às medidas mitigadoras ao processo erosivo

On Rio Grande do Norte northern coast the process of sediment transport are intensely controlled by wind and sea (waves and currents) action, causing erosion and shoreline morphological instability. Due to the importance of such coastal zone it was realized the multi-spectral mapping and physical-chemical characterization of mudflats and mangroves aiming to support the mitigating actions related to the containment of the erosive process on the oil fields of Macau and Serra installed at the study area. The multi-spectral bands of 2000 and 2008 LANDSAT 5 TM images were submitted on the several digital processing steps and RGB color compositions integrating spectral bands and Principal Components. Such processing methodology was important to the mapping of different units on surface, together with field works. It was possible to make an analogy of the spectral characteristics of wetlands with vegetations areas (mangrove), showing the possibility to make a restoration of this area, contributing with the environmental monitoring of that ecosystem. The maps of several units were integrated in GIS environment at 1:60,000 scale, including the classification of features according to the presence or absence of vegetation cover. Thus, the strategy of methodology established that there are 10.13 km2 at least of sandy-muddy and of these approximately 0.89 km2 with the possibility to be used in a reforestation of typical flora of mangrove. The physical-chemical characterization showed areas with potential to introduce local species of mangrove and they had a pH above neutral with a mean of 8.4. The characteristic particle size is sand in the fine fractions, the high levels of carbonate, organic matter and major and trace element in general are concentrated where the sediment had the less particles size, showing the high correlation that those elements have with smaller particles of sediment. The application of that methodological strategy is relevant to the better understanding of features behavior and physical-chemical data of sediment samples collected on field allow the analysis of efficiency/capability of sandy-muddy to reforestation with local mangrove species for mitigation of the erosive action and coastal processes on the areas occupied by the oil industry

Detecção de interface em tanques de petróleo usando transmissores de nível e controladores Fuzzy

This work presents a proposal to detect interface in atmospheric oil tanks by installing a differential pressure level transmitter to infer the oil-water interface. The main goal of this project is to maximize the quantity of free water that is delivered to the drainage line by controlling the interface. A Fuzzy Controller has been implemented by using the interface transmitter as the Process Variable. Two ladder routine was generated to perform the control. One routine was developed to calculate the error and error variation. The other was generate to develop the fuzzy controller itself. By using rules, the fuzzy controller uses these variables to set the output. The output is the position variation of the drainage valve. Although the ladder routine was implemented into an Allen Bradley PLC, Control Logix family it can be implemented into any brand of PLCs

Análise de homogeneidade de temperatura mínima mensal para o Estado de São Paulo.

Neste trabalho, o pacote Climatol-R foi aplicado a 122 séries mensais de temperatura mínima, cobrindo o interior do estado de São Paulo para os anos 1940 até 2012.