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Alkali consumption of aliphatic carboxylic acids during alkaline pulping of wood and nonwood feedstocks

2013

Abstract The carbohydrate degradation products have been examined, which are formed during the conventional kraft pulping of a softwood, hardwoods, bamboo, and wheat straw as well as soda and soda-anthraquinone pulping of wheat straw. The focus was on “volatile” acids such as formic and acetic acids and “nonvolatile” hydroxy monocarboxylic and dicarboxylic acids. The different consumption profiles were obtained for the charged alkali required for the neutralization of these aliphatic acids depending on the feedstock and the cooking method. The relative composition of the acid fraction in the black liquors of softwood and hardwood and nonwood feedstocks showed characteristic variations. Howe…

Eulerian two-fluid model of alkaline water electrolysis for hydrogen production

2020

Hydrogen storage is a promising technology for storage of renewable energy resources. Despite its high energy density potential, the development of hydrogen storage has been impeded, mainly due to its significant cost. Although its cost is governed mainly by electrical energy expense, especially for hydrogen produced with alkaline water electrolysis, it is also driven by the value of the cell tension. The most common means of electrolyzer improvement is the use of an electrocatalyst, which reduces the energy required for electrochemical reaction to take place. Another efficient means of electrolyzer improvement is to use the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)-assisted design that allows the…

Nanostructured Ni Based Anode and Cathode for Alkaline Water Electrolyzers

2019

Owing to the progressive abandoning of the fossil fuels and the increase of atmospheric CO2 concentration, the use of renewable energies is strongly encouraged. The hydrogen economy provides a very interesting scenario. In fact, hydrogen is a valuable energy carrier and can act as a storage medium as well to balance the discontinuity of the renewable sources. In order to exploit the potential of hydrogen it must be made available in adequate quantities and at an affordable price. Both goals can be potentially achieved through the electrochemical water splitting, which is an environmentally friendly process as well as the electrons and water are the only reagents. However, these devices stil…

Novel lithocholaphanes: Syntheses, NMR, MS, and molecular modeling studies

2007

Abstract Novel head-to-head lithocholaphanes 6 and 11 have been synthesized via precursors 1 – 5 and 7 – 10 with overall good yields, and characterized by 1 H, 13 C, and 15 N NMR spectroscopy, ESI-TOF mass spectrometry, thermal analysis, and molecular modeling. In addition, the binding abilities of 6 and 11 towards alkali metal cations have been investigated via competitive complexation studies using equimolar mixtures of Li + , Na + , K + , and Rb + -cations, and cholaphanes 6 and 11 . The formation of cation–cholaphane adducts was detected by ESI-TOF mass spectrometry. The trends in these comparative binding studies are nicely reproduced theoretically with PM3 energetically optimized stru…

Kinetics of correlated annealing of radiation defects in alkali halide crystals

1992

Abstract Kinetics of the correlated annealing of pairs of neutral (F-H) Frenkel defects in the KBr crystal is treated theoretically, taking into account defect diffusion, and annihilation at short distances stimulated by an elastic interaction. It is shown that an elastic interaction affects the annealing kinetics and the survival probability of close geminate detects considerably. The widespread description of the correlated annealing in terms of a first-order reaction fails for close defects yielding effective energies which in fact differ essentially from an activation energy of diffusion. Ea, even if it is corrected by an interaction energy. The effect of the initial distribution of def…

Influence of the alkaline earth cations on the topology of MII/CuII mixed-metal-organic frameworks (M = Ca, Sr and Ba)

2012

The use of the mononuclear copper(ii) complex, [Cu II(Me 2pma) 2] 2- (Me 2pma = N-2,6-dimethylphenyloxamate), as a bis(bidentate) metalloligand toward solvated alkaline earth metal cations affords a new series of oxamato-bridged heterobimetallic two-dimensional compounds with mixed square-octagonal [Ca II 2Cu II 3] or square [M II 2Cu II 3] (M = Sr and Ba) layered structures of (4·82) and (44·62) net topologies, respectively. © 2012 The Royal Society of Chemistry.

Properties of small clusters at ionic surfaces: (NaCl)nclusters (n=1–48) at the (100) MgO surface

1995

We have studied the geometry, binding energy, interaction with the surface, barriers for diffusion, optical absorption, and the possibility for their observation using atomic force microscopy of (NaCl${)}_{\mathit{n}}$ clusters (n=1--48) on the (100) MgO surface. We address the questions at which cluster size do the adsorbed molecules lose their identity and how do strained clusters accommodate the strain. The relation between the structure of initial molecular fragments adsorbed at the surface and the structure of the corresponding thick film is discussed. The results are compared with the calculated structures of the free clusters and the experimental data on the molecular-beam epitaxy of…

ChemInform Abstract: Interlocking Inorganic Screw Helices: Synthesis, Structure, and Magnetism of the Novel Framework Uranium Orthothiophosphates A11…

2010

<title>Shallow electron traps in alkali halide crystals: Mollwo-Ivey relations of the optical absorption bands</title>

2001

Evidences are given that two classes of the transient IR- absorption bands: (a) with max. at 0.27-0.36 eV in NaCl, KCl, KBr, KI and RbCl (due to shallow electron traps according G. Jacobs or due to bound polarons according E.V. Korovkin and T.A. Lebedkina) and (b) with max. at 0.15-0.36 eV in NaI, NaBr, NaCl:I, KCl:I, RbCl:I and RbBr:I (due to on-center STE localized at iodine dimer according M. Hirai and collaborators) are caused by the same defect- atomic alkali impurity center [M+]c0e- (electron e- trapped by a substitutional smaller size alkali cation impurity [M+]c0). The Mollwo-Ivey plots (for the transient IR-absorption bands) of the zero-phonon line energy E0 (for NaCl, KCl, KBr, Rb…

On/Off Photoswitching in a Cyanide-Bridged {Fe2Co2} Magnetic Molecular Square

2013

International audience; A repeatable bidirectional paramagnetic ↔ diamagnetic photomagnetic effect has been observed in the cyanide-bridged Fe-Co square complex {[Fe{B(pz)(4)}(CN)(3)](2)[Co(bik)(2)](2)}(ClO(4))(2)*3H(2)O [B(pz)(4) = tetrapyrazolylborate, bik = bis(1-methylimidazol-2-yl)ketone]. Magnetic measurements and low-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments have shown that a complete electron transfer from the diamagnetic Fe(II)-Co(III) state to the paramagnetic Fe(III)-Co(II) metastable state is induced by 808 nm laser light irradiation, whereas the diamagnetic state is recovered in an almost quantitative yield under irradiation at 532 nm.