Physical Chemistry at High Pressures

Physical and chemical transformations of sodium cyanide at high pressures.

Pressure-induced physical and chemical transformations of sodium cyanide (NaCN) have been studied up to 50 GPa in diamond-anvil cells, using micro-Raman spectroscopy and angle-resolved synchrotron x-ray diffraction. We observe three phase transitions in this pressure range: NaCN-IIA (orthorhombic, Immm), to NaCN-IIB (orthorhombic, Pmmn) at 4 GPa, to NaCN-III (monoclinic, Cm) at 8 GPa, and to Na...

Adsorption at High Pressures

Plasma interferometry at high pressures

A general formulation for the measurement of plasma density and effective collision frequency for lowly as well as highly, collisional plasmas using millimeter wave interferometry is presented. In the presence of high density and collisionality at high gas pressures where the collision frequency ~n! is of the order of both the plasma (vp) and the wave frequency of the millimeter wave ~v! (n ;v ...

Regeneration of СO2 Physical Solvents at Elevated Pressures in Gas-Liquid Membrane Contactor

In the present work, a membrane contactor with asymmetric flat-sheet poly(vinyltrimethylsilane) (PVTMS) membranes was proposed for the CO2 desorption process from physical solvents at elevated trans-membrane pressures. Different solvents were studied: water, a mixture of polyethylene g...

Chemistry at high pressure.

Chemistry involves the study of the reactions and properties of the elements and their compounds. After over two centuries of systematic chemical research, combined with the modern use of spectroscopy and diffraction methods to determine structure and valence states and detailed quantum mechanical investigations of interatomic bonding; it is now generally accepted that the fundamentals of chemi...