the simultaneous cross-linking and antimicrobial finishing of bleached cotton and cationized cotton by 3-chloro2-hydroxypropyl trimethyl ammonium chloride (quat-188) with butane tetracarboxylic acid and nano titanium dioxide is studied and explored in the current study. butane tetracarboxylic acid (btca) as a cross-linking agent can be linked to the cotton cellulosic chains by covalent bonds an...

In this paper the techno-economic feasibility of employing zeotropic mixtures as working fluids in organic Rankine cycle power systems is assessed. For an application case based on utilization low temperature geothermal heat at 135 °C, net present value system was maximized by optimizing process variables and transfer equipment design parameters. Parametric studies detailing effect assumed elec...

The title compound, C(23)H(30)ClN(5)O(3) (2+)·2Cl(-)·0.5H(2)O, was synthesized by N-alkyl-ation of 1-({[5-(4-chloro-phen-yl)-2-furan-yl]methyl-ene}amino)-2,4-imidazolidinedione with 1-bromo-4-chloro-butane, and N-methyl-piperazine. In the crystal, the cations, anions and water mol-ecules are linked by O-H⋯Cl and N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds.

The hydration thermodynamics of the GXG tripeptide relative to the reference GGG is often used to define the conditional hydration contribution of X. This quantity or the hydration thermodynamics of a small molecule analog of the side-chain or some combination of such estimates, usually including factors to account for the solvent-exposure of the side-chain in the protein, have anchored the int...

In this study, the relationship between cardiovascular mortality and traffic-related air pollutants (NO(2), CO, PM(10), and six volatile organic compounds (VOCs), propane, iso-butane, propylene, benzene, meta-, para-, and ortho-xylenes) was investigated. The concentrations of NO(2), PM(10) and CO from 1993 to 2006 were measured at a fixed-site air monitoring station, and VOC data from 2003 to 2...

In an experimental investigation of the transient processes that occur when a single droplet of butane at the superheat limit vaporizes explosively, short-exposure photographs and fast-response pressure measurements have been used to construct a description of the complete explosion process. It is observed that only a single bubble forms within the drop during each explosion, and that the growt...

NMR spectra of ethane, propane, and n-butane as solutes in the nematic liquid crystals 4-n-pentyl-4(')-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) and Merck ZLI 1132 (1132) are investigated over a wide temperature range. The ratios of dipolar couplings of ethane to propane are constant over the entire temperature range. Assuming that this constancy applies to the butane conformers facilitates the separation of probabi...

Pure ethane ices (C2H6) were irradiated at 10, 30, and 50 K under contamination-free, ultrahigh vacuum conditions with energetic electrons generated in the track of galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) particles to simulate the interaction of GCRs with ethane ices in the outer solar system. The chemical processing of the samples was monitored by a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer and a quadrupole m...