Ricerc@Sapienza

Mature hydrocarbon fields co-produce significant volumes of water. As the produced water increases over the life of the field, the project's operating costs increase (due to greater water management expenditure), while the oil revenues decrease. Typically, these waste streams of water have temperatures of 65–150 °C. The combination of moderate temperatures and large water volumes may be suitable for electricity generation and/or district heating.

A variety of extraction methodologies were applied to chinotto (Citrus myrtifolia) fruits from Sicily, along with sensory and chemical analyses. By gas chromatographic techniques, either in monodimensional (GC-FID, GC–MS) or in multidimensional (MDGC) fashion, it was established how the isolation procedure affected the volatile fingerprint of such fruit. In general, limonene, linalyl acetate, myrcene, β-pinene, α-pinene, (E)-β-ocimene, linalool and geranyl acetate resulted to be the predominant volatiles.