In this work, we have investigated the potential dual application of TiO2 thin films as a photocatalyst for ammonia degradation, and UV light blocking layer in c-Si photovoltaics. For purpose, deposited series on glass substrate by reactive magnetron sputtering analysed influence deposition parameters (O2/Ar working gas content pressure) structural, optical photocatalytic properties. All sample...

background: sulfur mustard (sm) is an alkylating agent that has been used as a chemical warfare gas during world war ii and by iraqi army in the iran-iraq conflict between 1983 and 1988. sm can cause serious organ damages especially ocular, neurologic, coetaneous, bone marrow and pulmonary complications. on the other hand dexmedetomidine is a α2 agonist with sedative and analgesic effect with a...

In this study, the effectiveness of two conventional UV reactors in series for the online sterilization of cheese whey was compared to that of a single conventional reactor. The single reactor and the two reactor series were tested at eleven flow rates (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 60 and 70 mL min ) and five flow rates, (35, 40, 50, 60, 70 mL min ), respectively. 100% destruction efficie...

Due to its structure, hexamethylenetetramine (HMT) is a slowly biodegradable substance, hydrolysing in acid environment to ammonium and formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is toxic under normal conditions for biological treatment processes. Following an adaptation, a formaldehyde concentration of 1000 mg·l may become biodegradable both in aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Acidic conditions for hydrolysi...

Pellet heat and mass transfer coefficients inside packed beds do not have definite deterministic values, but are stochastic quantities with a certain distribution. Here, a method is presented to incorporate the stochastic distribution of pellet properties in reactor design and operation models. The theory presented is illustrated with a number of examples. It is shown that pellet-scale statisti...

Approach • Complete reverse kinetics and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling to optimize reactor geometry for forward reactions • Measure forward kinetics in quartz & Inconel reactors to determine reactor wall catalysis • Measure forward kinetics in reactor packed with membrane material to determine catalytic activity • Measure membrane H2 permeability in presence of clean syngas compon...

Adaptation of network weights using LevenbergMarquardt (LM) training algorithm was proposed as a mechanism to improve the performance of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) in modeling the Tennessee Eastman (TE) chemical process reactor. A Neural Network of the AutoRegressive, eXternal (NNARX) input model was developed. Four sub-models for the TE reactor were built. They are: the reactor level, th...

Knowledge of the neutron distribution in a nuclear reactor is necessary to ensure the safe and efficient burnup of reactor fuel. Currently these measurements are performed by in-core systems in what are extremely hostile environments and in most reactor accident scenarios it is likely that these systems would be damaged. Here we present a compact and portable radiation imaging system with the a...

The paper is focused on the comparison of the reverse flow reactor (RFR) and of the counter-current reactor (CCR) operation, focusing the attention on the interaction between transport phenomena and chemical reactions, as well as on the analysis of the dynamic behavior. A heterogeneous mathematical model was used in order to investigate the performance of both reactor configurations. The role o...