In three dairy grasslands on peat, minerals were added to manipulate the soil Ca:Mg ratio with or without effect pH. The responses of properties and grass N yield measured. CaCO3 application led higher pHKCl compared untreated control, decreased Ntotal Ctotal, increased P availability. Grass in first year by only 6% reduction Ntotal, but not second year. A pH SOM decomposition, especially soils...

The leaching characteristics of fly ash from a cobalt smelter were studied as a function of pH and time using the pH-static leaching test (CEN/TS 14997, pH range 5-12) coupled with mineralogical investigation and speciation-solubility modelling. Two sets of experiments with different equilibration time (48 h and 168 h) were performed. The leaching of metals showed typical U-shaped curves with t...

In this study, an injectable bone substitute (IBS) consisting of citric acid, chitosan, and hydroxyl propyl methyl cellulose (HPMC) as the liquid phase and tetra calcium phosphate (TTCP), dicalcium phosphate dihydrate (DCPD) and calcium sulfate dehydrate (CSD, CaSO4 x 2H2O) powders as the solid phase, were fabricated. Two groups were classified based on the percent of citric acid in the liquid ...

The micro morphology of limestone sorbent is a key for improving the SO2 removal efficiency in the coal-fired power plant. The tube furnace system was built for imitating the indirect desulfurization reaction in traditional boiler atmosphere (65%N2, 15%CO2, 4.7%O2, 15%H2O, 0.3%SO2) and the direct desulfurization reaction in oxygen-fired atmosphere (80%CO2, 4.7%O2, 15%H2O, 0.3%SO2). The reacted ...

Introduction: Akaganeite (β-FeOOH) is an Fe(III) (hydr)oxide with a tunnel structure usually occupied by chloride. Akaganeite has been recently discovered in a mudstone on the surface of Mars by the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) and Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instruments onboard the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity Rover in Gale crater [1, 2]. Akaganeite was detected together with...

The power of the state-of-the-art neutron powder diffractometer suite at the Institut Laue–Langevin for investigating the structure of nondeuterated materials is presented using gypsum, CaSO4 2H2O, as a reference material. It is shown that flexible modern neutron powder diffraction instruments at reactorbased sources can yield data with sufficient counting statistics above the incoherent scatte...

A laboratory-scale submerged anoxic-oxic membrane bioreactor treating municipal wastewater was operated to investigate the structure and distribution of the inorganic cake layer buildup on the membrane. BCR (European Community Bureau of Reference) sequential extraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and both map and line scan of energy-dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX) were performed fo...

We have developed a LiF/CaF2:Tb eutectic composite as novel thermoluminescence (TL) dosimetric material. The was obtained using melt-solidification method with lower melting temperature than that of LiF and CaF2. results the PL emission excitation spectra, X-ray induced radioluminescence decay curve, TL spectrum indicate emissions are due to 4f-4f transitions Tb3+ ion. integrated intensity 3.6 ...