Laminar two dimensional forced convective heat transfer of Al2O3 –water nanofluid in a horizontal microchannel has been studied numerically, considering axial conduction, viscous dissipation and variable properties effects. The existing criteria in the literature for considering viscous dissipation in energy equation are compared for different cases and the most proper one is applied for the re...

The diffusion of longer n-alkanes (n-C8-n-C16) in silicalite was studied using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations at a temperature range of 300-400 K, with loadings appropriate for direct comparison with previously carried out quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) studies. The calculated diffusion coefficients were in close agreement with experimental values, significantly closer than those c...

In this study, the partial oxidation of iso-octane over Ni/Ce0.75Zr0.25O2 and Ni/β”Al2O3 catalysts was investigated. The results indicated that Ni/Ce0.75Zr0.25O2 is more active than Ni/β”-Al2O3. The partial oxidation products are mainly H2 and CO for Ni/Ce0.75Zr0.25O2 with hydrogen selectivity up to 85%. The H2/CO ratio is in the range of 1.3-2.0 depending on the operating temperature. It was n...

The naphtha catalytic reforming process is evaluated by designing new composite nano-catalysts. Three catalysts were prepared for this process. first catalyst was molybdenum carbide with platinum over HY zeolite (Mo2C.Pt/HY zeolite), the second modified cerium nitrate (Mo2C.Pt/CeY and last bimetallic titanium a content of 1% 0.11% (Pt.Ti/HY zeolite). All tested several tests, mainly X-Ray Diffr...

Particle tracking in liquid and gaseous fluids is a very useful technique to better understand flow dynamics. In this paper, we develop a novel algorithm to track a dense collection of particles in unsteady two-dimensional flows. To capitalize on the rapid improvements in graphic hardware technology, the algorithm is exclusively based on subsets of the OpenGL implementation of SGI. Making use o...

the thermo-hydraulic behavior of the air flow over a two dimensional ribbed channel wasnumerically investigated in various rib-width ratio configurations (b/h=0.5-1.75) atdifferent reynolds numbers, ranging from 6000 to 18000. the capability of differentturbulence models, including standard k-ε, rng k-ε, standard k-ω, and sst k-ω, inpredicting the heat transfer rate was compared with the experi...

The mechanism of carbonyl substitution in [Fe(Ind)(CO)(2)I] (Ind = C(9)H(7)(-), indenyl) by P(OMe)(3) was investigated by means of DFT calculations. The most favourable path involves a spin crossover of the complex from the ground state singlet to the triplet potential energy surface (S = 1), followed by dissociative loss of CO, and phosphite addition to the coordinatively unsaturated intermedi...

Evaluation of published methods reveals that existing methods for saliva sampling do not address the physical-chemical attributes of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). This study describes and presents evidence for adopting in situ sampling of salivary VOCs directly from the oral cavity using a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) based sampler. In vitro studies indicated that the vapour pressure of ana...