Porous magnesium oxide was synthesized by a combustion method, with Mg(NO3)2, ethylene glycol and deionized water as reactants, and characterized by X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and nitrogen sorption/desorption. The results showed that the as-prepared porous magnesium oxide has the multi-scale porous size...
Aniline is used by many industrial organizations and is released into the environment in high amounts and pollutes the water. Due to the damages to human health, there is a need for effective and environmentally friendly methods to remove this compound from the water. The aim of this work is to mineralize and remove aniline by investigating total organic carbon removal and...
A new hetero-Fenton type GO/Fe2V4O13 was developed and characterized by FT-IR, XRD, HR-SEM, TEM, and UV-DRS analysis. XRD pattern reveals the presence of monoclinic phase of Fe2V4O13 in the catalyst. TEM images show the particle sizes in the range from 20 to 100 nm and the nice dispersion of nanosized Fe2V4O13 particles on the surface of the graphene oxide. The hetero-Fenton...
The use of fermenters at large scale is usually hampered by sub-optimal conditions in terms of yield and productivity, along with the low tolerance of strains to process stresses, such as substrate and product toxicity, and other fermentation inhibitors. Attempts to improve the industrial efficacy of fermenters have been in the areas of genetic engineering to improve strain...
One of the serious problems in polybutadiene rubber (PBR) production units is the color change in products, which is due to aging and the inability of antioxidants to protect the product, especially at high temperatures. In this study, the effects of amine-type antioxidant [octylated diphenylamine (OD)] and non-amine-type antioxidant (Irganox 1520) on the color yellowness, gel...
ETI Aluminyum A.Ş., the primary aluminium manufacturer of Turkey, is also one of the major integrated plants of the world capable of performing production from mining until end product. The alumina refinery was designed on a certain boehmitic bauxite quality basis. However, bauxite properties have changed over the years, resulting in the urgent need for process optimization to...
The corrosion and corrosion inhibition of Pb and Pb–In alloys in HCl solution, were investigated. The study was performed in the absence and presence of the phytic acid (PA) inhibitor using potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements, and complementary by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray spectroscopy analysis (EDX...
High-end applications require a very tall vertical extraction column in some cases which deteriorates protection against radiation and cannot be employed for indoor applications. On the other hand, horizontal extraction columns offer higher efficiency and pretension, but lower maximum throughput. In order to address this issue, the L-shaped pulsed extraction column is a new type...
Inhibition action of seroquel on corrosion of zinc in 0.1 M HCl solution was investigated using weight loss, electrochemical potentiodynamic polarization and impedance spectroscopic techniques. Corrosion inhibition efficiency showed the positive effect with increase in concentration of inhibitor and with the increase in temperature. Results obtained from all the methods are in...
The present work reports the application of polyethylene glycol (PEG) cross-linked chitosan (Cht-PEG) as a green corrosion inhibitor. This is the first study reporting the application of Cht-PEG as corrosion inhibitor for mild steel in 1 M sulphamic acid solution. The results of gravimetric measurements, electrochemical study and surface analysis (SEM) are presented in this work...
In the quest for eco-friendly and cost-effective adsorbents for the removal of phenol from aqueous systems, garlic peel has been identified as a potential candidate in our earlier study. In the current investigations, we have studied the performance of garlic peel powder in packed fixed-bed column, to assess its potential for real-time deployment for remediation of phenol...
Industrial steady-flow chemical processes are generally organised as a sequence of individually optimised operations. However, this may not achieve overall optimization since material (as recycle), heat and work transfers overall may not be well balanced. We introduce the idea of a preliminary overall thermodynamic balance to produce a reversible process, with the objective of...
The literature relatively lacks results and data related to the direct influence of physical aging on the properties of polypropylene and natural rubber blend; so, the objective of this research was to study the influence of thermal and ultraviolet (UV) aging on a natural rubber (NR) SMR-ω and polypropylene (PP) blend. This toughened blend is generally used for the fabrication of...
In this paper, the effect of chemical treatments on date palm fibers (DPFs) properties was studied; DPFs were first treated with a 5 wt% NaOH aqueous solution for 1 h and then modified using two types of silane coupling agents (3-Mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane and 3-Aminopropyltrimethoxysilane) with various concentrations (0.1, 0.5, 1 and 2 wt%) to improve the interfacial...
Laboratory experiments conducted for long time on stream (TOS: 14,350 h) provide information on Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (FTS) that is representative of time scales of industrial operations. Operation conditions that deliver desirable conversion and product distribution were investigated. Low gas hourly space velocity (GHSV) gave the highest conversion of 20.97% with the highest...
Biomass-derived adsorbents have been intensively studied due to their competence in reducing pollutants with conventional methods. Flowers are used as source in medicine, cosmetics and even as adsorbents for pollutant abatement. In this study, the microparticles from Chrysanthemum indicum were used as adsorbent for reducing the Congo red dye concentration from synthetic solution...
In this study, removal of m-cresol has been performed using photoeletrocatalysis technique at the surface of titanium dioxide (TiO2) thin film-modified carbon sheet photoelectrode. A biased potential was applied across this photoelectrode illuminated by UV light to investigate the feasibility of an electrochemically assisted photocatalytic process in this degradation. For...
In this study, the degradation and mineralization of petrochemical wastewater containing phenol and nitrophenol with chemical oxygen demand (COD) at 260 mg/L and total organic carbon (TOC) at 100 mg/L, were investigated by Sono–photo-Fenton process. The full factorial design of experiment was used to explore the influence of operational variables such as pH, initial concentration...
Decolourization process of neutralized sunflower oil was carried out with activated carbon products obtained from pyrolysis liquid products. The effect of parameters such as time, temperature, moisture and dosage on bleaching sunflower oil was investigated. It was found that activated carbon samples are an effective adsorbent for decolourization process of sunflower oil. It was...
Wood fibers were used as fillers in the partial cement matrix by replacing the cement to a content of 1% by weight of cement. The effect of wood fibers on porosity and compressive strength has been studied. The results obtained show an improvement in the compressive strength of more than 40% with 1% by weight of wood fibers. The addition of wood fibers shows a good pore reduction...
The inhibitive action of plant leaf extracts, Crataegus oxyacantha (Hawthorn) and Prunus Avium (Sweet Cherry) on the corrosion of mild steel in 0.5 M HCl solution was investigated using open circuit potential-time measurements (OCP), potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) techniques. Functional groups of these plants’ leaf extracts and their...
The release of dye containing effluent is a great threat to the world today. The purpose of this study is to optimize the removal of Reactive Blue 19 (RB19) dye from aqueous solutions using advanced oxidation process (AOP). Magnesium oxide nanoparticles (MgO NPs) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) were used as the catalyst and oxidizer, respectively. Central composite design (CCD...
Epoxy resin (ER) is an attractive material for metal protection against corrosion; it can form a strongly adhered film onto a metal surface through its multi coordination sites. In this study, an epoxy resin-based formulation was designed, prepared, and applied onto steel surface with and without a pigment. The anticorrosive formulation (ER–MDA–ZP) was prepared from the ER and...
This work proposes a kinetic model for the reactions involved in the heterogeneous copper-based Fenton-type oxidation of mixed recalcitrant compounds in a real industrial effluent from the alkaline sulfite treatment of wood. This kind of treatment is unusual in this industry due to the complexity of the effluents and the high costs involved in total mineralization of the organic...
The hopcalite (CuMnOx) catalyst is a well-known catalyst for CO oxidation at a low temperature and it is synthesized by the co-precipitation method with different types of precursors. Activity of the CuMnOx catalysts for CO oxidation is strongly dependent upon the combination of precursors, ranking in order {Mn(Ac)2 + Cu(NO3)2} > {Mn(Ac)2 + Cu(Ac)2} > {Mn(NO3)2 + Cu(NO3)2} > {Mn...