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CO2 capture from biogas: Absorbent selection
2013
The development of proper biogas upgrading technology offers a viable means to utilize biogas in conventional power systems. In this paper, various molecular and ionic solvent systems were evaluated for CO2 removal from biogas in a loop reactor system. The performance of amine solutions, ionic liquids and their mixtures, amino acid salts and solutions blended with piperazine was compared in terms of their CO2 loading capacity. The experimental results revealed that addition of small amounts of piperazine can increase on average by 30 vol% the efficiency of above-mentioned solutions. The CO2 capturing capacity achieved for the most promising solvents was in the range of 50–60 L CO2/L absorbe…
Photocatalytic conversion of glucose in aqueous suspensions of heteropolyacid-TiO2 composites.
2015
Commercial and home prepared TiO2 samples were functionalized with a commercial Keggin heteropolyacid (HPA) H 3PW12O 40 (PW12) or with a hydrothermally home prepared K 7PW11O 39 salt (PW11). All the materials were characterized by specific surface area measurements (BET), XRD analyses, Raman, DRS along with SEM observations and they have been used for glucose photocatalytic conversion in an aqueous suspension. Different reaction extents and distribution of intermediate oxidation products were observed depending on the photocatalyst. Gluconic acid, arabinose, erythrose and formic acid were observed as oxidation products when bare TiO2 or HPA/TiO2 composite materials were used. Glucose isomer…
On Pathways for Small Molecules Into and Out of Human Hair Fibers
1996
This paper represents an experimental approach of histology of the human hair fiber in dyeing and diffusion phenomena and its contribution to the interpretation of hair analysis results for drug abuse. Rhodamine B was applied to human hair fibers from either aqueous solution or methanol/ethanol solvent. The experiments were performed on natural hair of different ethnic groups as well as on extensively bleached hair strands. The microscopical study of the pathway of diffusion of rhodamine B into the hair fibers indicated that the reagent had entered the unmodified fibers at the scale edges between the cuticle cells. At the beginning of the diffusion process intercellular diffusion was the pr…
A study of thin surface layers by multilayer Mössbauer spectroscopy /MMS/
1990
A stacking Mossbauer technique, MMS has been applied for studying thin surface layers. The surface layers formed on the57Fe film in aqueous solutions of corrosion inhibitors, such as zinc phosphate and barium metaborate, and in distilled water was studied by this method. It has been found that the corrosion is much slower in the presence of zinc phosphate and barium metaborate. XPS analysis suggests the formation of a mixed iron zinc phosphate on the surface of the57Fe film after corrosion in a zinc phosphate solution.
Viscous Synergy of Pure Monoalcohol Mixtures in Water and Its Relation to Concentration
2004
Pure or aqueous alcohols are the solvents most widely used in industry, including in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and cosmetic products. However, water–alcohol mixtures generate hydrogen-bonded molecular associations that lead to volume contraction and an increase in viscosity greater than that expected in the absence of any interaction between the components of the mixture. This phenomenon is referred to as viscous synergy. The present study investigates viscous synergy in monoalcohol systems containing up to five carbon atoms, since beyond hexanol all alcohols are practically insoluble in water. In all cases, determinations were made of the proportions of water and alcohol for which…
Self-Assembly of Water-Mediated Supramolecular Cationic Archimedean Solids
2013
Understanding the self-assembly of small structural units into large supramolecular assemblies remains one of the great challenges in structural chemistry. We have discovered that tetrahedral supramolecular cages, exhibiting the shapes of Archimedean solids, can be self-assembled by hydrogen bonding interactions using tricationic N-donors (1 or 2) in cooperation with water (W). Single crystal X-ray analysis shows that cage (2)4(W)6, assembled in an aqueous solution of cation 2 and KPF6, consists of four tripodal trications linked by six water monomers and resembles the shape of a truncated tetrahedron. Similarly, cage (1)4(W6)4 spontaneously self-assembles in an aqueous solution of cation 1…
2D and 3D coordination polymers based on 2,2′-bipyrimidine and cyanide bridging ligands incorporating coordinated and guest ammonia molecules. Synthe…
2005
The coordination polymers {[Ni(CN)4]2[(Ni(NH3)2)2(bpym)]·2H2O}n1 and {[Cu2(CN)2(bpym)]·NH3}n2 have been prepared from the reactions of M(NO3)2·nH2O [Cu(II), n = 3 and M = Ni(II), n = 6] with NaCN and bpym (2,2′-bipyrimidine) in concentrated aqueous ammonia, respectively. The structure of 1 is made of bipyrimidine bridged centrosymmetric dinuclear [Ni(NH3)2(μ-bpym)Ni(NH3)2] fragments connected by four [Ni(CN)4]2− anions giving rise to a 2D framework. Layers, which adopt a stair-like conformation, are stacked with an ABAB… repeat pattern. Water molecules are located in the interlayer space and are involved in hydrogen bond interactions with the non-bridging cyanide groups of the [Ni(CN)4]2− a…
The Silica-Water Interface: How the Silanols Determine the Surface Acidity and Modulate the Water Properties.
2015
Silica is the most abundant metal oxide and the main component of the Earth's crust. Its behavior in contact with water plays a critical role in a variety of geochemical and environmental processes. Despite its key role, the details of the aqueous silica interface at the microscopic molecular level are still elusive. Here we provide such a detailed understanding of the molecular behavior of the silica-water interface, using density functional theory based molecular dynamics (DFTMD) simulations, where a consistent treatment of the electronic structure of solvent and surface is provided. We have calculated the acidity of the silanol groups at the interface directly from the DFTMD simulations,…
Synthesis, Characterization, and X-ray Crystal Structures of Cyclam Derivatives. 8. Thermodynamic and Kinetic Appraisal of Lead(II) Chelation by Octa…
2005
En route toward the development of hybrid organic−inorganic extracting materials incorporating lead-selective chelators and their implementation in water purification processes, the lead(II) binding properties of three N-carbamoylmethyl-substituted 1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecanes (cyclams) have been fully investigated by spectroscopic (IR, UV−vis, MALDI-TOF MS, 1H and 13C NMR), X-ray crystallographic, potentiometric, and kinetic methods. Solution NMR studies revealed that the Pb2+ ion is entrapped in a molecular cage constituted by the four macrocyclic nitrogen and four amidic oxygen atoms. Protonation and lead binding constants determined in aqueous solution were shown to be linearly de…
Quantitative XPS analysis of leached layers on optical glasses
1993
The corrosion of optical glasses often reduces the utility of uncoated glasses as well as the adhesion of resistive coatings deposited onto corroded glasses. Photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was applied to study glass surfaces with respect to their surface corrosion. In particular, leaching by the influence of polish slurries, pure water, air and even residual gases inside a vacuum device was studied in detail. Pure quartz glass and different sodium and barium silicate glasses were broken in ultrahigh vacuum (4 × 10−10 mbar) for the determination of sensitivity factors of the different XPS signals. It was found that a quantitative determination of the surface composition of corroded and lea…