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In this investigation, attempts have been made to study the corrosion inhibition properties of three new triazepine carboxylate compounds for mild steel in 1.0 M hydrochloric acid medium. The evaluation was carried out using mass loss, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and polarization curves measurement. Impedance diagrams and Bode plots for uninhibited and inhibited...
The method of micro bubbles is widely applied in the fields of water and soil treatment. A novel treatment method of NO in flue gas through a gas–liquid two-phase system formed by micro bubbles is proposed in this study. The system depends on the generation of hydroxyl radicals. The NO removal performance of the micro gas–liquid dispersion system induced by catalysts and O3 was...
Organic liquid waste from food production industry is inevitable. High chemical oxygen demand (COD) contents in organic liquid waste could disrupt the water ecosystem. On the other hand, COD contents can be reduced and utilized to produce biogas by UASB reactor. However, there is a problem in operating UASB reactor, namely the high biomass content in methanogenic granule form...
We have synthesized a kind of photopolymerizable polysiloxane-based nanogel with intramolecular-initiating capability based on 4-hydroxybenzophenone (HBP), isobornyl methacrylate (IBMA), urethane dimethacrylate (UDMA) and 2-isocyanatoethyl methacrylate (IEM) and methacrylate-modified polysiloxane (PSMA). The nanogel possesses low migration of photolysis fragments and can...
The present study used modified nanofiltration (NF) membranes to remove the emerging contaminant of amoxicillin (AMX) from synthetic wastewater. For this purpose, Merpol surfactant and polyvinylpyrrolidone were added to the casting solutions to prepare flat sheet asymmetric polyethersulfone (PES) NF membranes through phase inversion process. Then, the effect of adding Merpol...
Tetracycline is one of the most widely used antibiotics that causes contamination of aqueous environments and has raised serious concern during the past few years. In this work, adsorption of tetracycline on a modified zeolite was studied through a batch system. Synthetic zeolite 13X was modified using Fe(III). The results show that the removal efficiency of tetracycline by...
The polypyrrole (PPy) was used as an adsorbent material for efficient removal of pharmaceutical metronidazole from aqueous solutions. The physiochemical parameters influencing the adsorption process such as adsorbent dose, temperature, pH, initial concentration and contact time were systematically investigated. The optimum adsorption efficiency is achieved at pH 6.17 after 120...
To develop a new adsorbent for removal of nitrate and to enhance the adsorbent separation from aqueous solution, surface modification of titanium dioxide nanoparticles with nano-zero-valent iron (nZVI) was performed through chemical coprecipitation of magnetic nanoparticles on TiO2 surface. Morphological, structural and magnetic properties of modified adsorbents (TiO2/nZVI) were...
Thermally activated persulfate (TAP) was applied for the degradation of Acid Blue 92 (AB92) dye in its aqueous solution. The effects of pH (3–11), temperature (298–333 K), contact time (15–75 min), sodium persulfate (SPS) concentration (0.05–0.5 mM) and initial AB92 concentration (50–400 mg/L) on the degradation of AB92 using TAP were examined. The initial and residual AB92...
The present research work is focussed on the treatment of leachate generated from crude oil-contaminated soil sites using wet air oxidation as an advanced oxidation process. The factors affecting the wet air oxidation (WAO) process, viz. temperature, pressure and time of treatment were optimized using central composite design and response surface methodology. The significant...
Improving production of bacteriorhodopsin in the culture medium of Halobacterium salinarum confronts indeterminacy related to culture conditions. Several studies have revealed that high oxygen content increases the growth of Halobacterium salinarum whereas it down-regulates the expression of genes responsible for bacteriorhodopsin production. The focus of this study was to...
Obesity is the accumulation of excess body fat and the hallmark of type II diabetes mellitus, characterized by hyperglycemia. Glycemic control is very critical to reduce long-term vascular complications resulting from the progressive nature of hyperglycemia. In previous studies, thermally reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-based hydrogel biocomposites were prepared and in vitro drug...
The aim of this work is to find the effect of the adding graphene oxide nanoparticle ands dodecyl sulfate (SDS) on the absorption rate and solubility of CO2 in mono-ethanolamine (MEA) solvent. To this end, an experimental setup was designed and constructed to measure the gas solubility in the solvent and the absorption rate during the process. The experiments were conducted at...
An experimental investigation was performed with the view to assess the heat transfer characteristics of a water-based nanofluid in a micro heat exchanger employed to quench a high heat flux heater for industrial and microelectronic cooling applications. The experiments were conducted at heat fluxes 10–70 kW/m2 and for nanofluids at various mass concentrations of 0.1–0.3% and...
Preparation and application of CoMgAl-hydrotalcites have been studied. In this paper CoMgAl-LDHs photocatalysts were prepared by co-precipitation. Various techniques such as UV–visible spectrometry (UV–vis), BET, differential thermal gravimetric analysis, scanning electron microscopy analysis and X-ray diffraction were used to investigate the catalytic activity, structure, and...
One of the leading routes for producing polyolefins is through gas-phase catalytic fluidized bed reactors. In this study, the industrial gas-phase ethylene polymerization reactor series of Jam Petrochemical Company has been dynamically analyzed, modeled and controlled. The copolymerization of ethylene with 1-butene is defined on Zeigler–Natta catalyst, assuming a double active...
The present work proposes the study of the extract of Senecio anteuphorbium (SA) as green corrosion inhibitor. This inhibitory effect of SA extract on the corrosion of S300 steel in hydrochloric acid 1 M has been evaluated by using the potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. From the outcome of the polarization curves, SA extract acts as mixed...
Reverse osmosis desalination water plants have several operational issues such as corrosion in many areas like energy recovery devices that are accustomed to restore energy and scale back prices. Thus, there is a necessity to reduce the corrosion rate of the devices utilized in energy recovery. This study focuses on protection of some metals and alloys that are utilized in this...
Heat stable salts such as total organic acids (TOA) and heavy metals are well known contaminants in the acid gas removal systems operating using alkanolamines such as methyldiethanolamine (MDEA, 50 wt%). Decontamination of TOA and heavy metals from lean MDEA always remain as a challenge to the gas industry, as accumulation of TOA deteriorates the solvent quality, weakens the...
The corrosion inhibition of mild steel in 0.5 M hydrochloric acid by six synthesized heterocyclic compounds was studied using weight loss measurements. The inhibition efficiency exceeded 95%. The excellent inhibitor performance was attributed to the formation of protection adsorption films on the steel surface. The structures of compounds were confirmed by Fourier transform...