Deposition of coatings of aluminum, aluminum nitride and aluminum carbide on particulate carbon materials by means of an atmospheric pressure microwave plasma fluidized bed process is reported. Two types of short carbon fibers and a monocrystalline diamond powder were used as substrate. As source of aluminum trimethylaluminum was utilized with nitrogen and argon/hydrogen (5 vol% H2) serving as ...

A microwave-induced, steam/Ar/O2, plasma "torch" was operated at atmospheric pressure to determine the feasibility of destroying volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of concern. The plasma process can be coupled with adsorbent technology by providing steam as the fluid carrier for desorbing the VOCs from an adsorbent. Hence, N2 can be excluded by using a relatively inexpensive carrier gas, and the...

A fully automated system for the determination of δC and δO in atmospheric CO has been developed. CO is extracted from an air sample and converted into carbon dioxide (CO2) using the Schütze reagent. The isotopic composition is determined with an isotope-ratio mass spectrometer (IRMS) technique. The entire system is continuously flushed with high-purity helium (He), the carrier gas. The blank s...

This paper introduces the structural characterization and studies on reversible oxygenation behavior of a new oxygen carrier Co(II)-2,4-diaminobutanoic acid (DABA) complex in aqueous solution. The composition of the oxygenated complex was determined by gas volumetric method, molar ratio method, and mass spectrometry, and the formula of the oxygenated complex was determined to be [Co(DABA)2O2]. ...

Quantum chemistry investigations have been performed to study the gas phase chemistry active during the MOVPE of GaN when Ga(CH3)3 and NH3, diluted in a H2 carrier gas, are used as precursors. Optimized molecular geometries, energies, and transition state structures of gas phase species have been determined with density functional theory at the B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p) level. We found that the GaN ga...

A composition stream from reservoir to the market has been obtained as a result of upstream, midstream and downstream retrograde gas-condensate models integration. Applications are composition, Peng-Robinson EOS has been chosen as a fluid package. Different production scenarios were observed to define development strategy for rich gas condensate production. VGD and C/V gas drive mechanisms have...

The enantioselective tuning of two columns coupled in series is investigated in chiral high-resolution gas chromatography. Two columns with opposite enantioselectivities (Chirasil-L-Val and Chirasil-D-Val) are coupled in series via a T connector, and the relative retention of enantiomers chromatographed on the system is changed by varying the individual carrier gas flow rates in the coupled col...