Catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol has gained considerable interest for its significant role in utilization using heterogeneous catalysts. This study is the first propose a kinetic model based on Langmuir-Hinshelwood-Hougen-Watson (LHHW) mechanism over highly effective indium oxide (In2O3) catalyst. The work focuses different reaction conditions mainly revolving around variation operati...

This research focuses on deducing the kinetic mechanism for biodiesel production catalyzed by a CaO nanocatalyst derived from waste cockle shells via thermal hydration–dehydration treatment. In addition, preparation method hydration–dehydration-related parameters (hydration duration, recalcination temperature, and duration) was studied optimized. The transesterification reaction followed Langmu...

One of the current problems in environmental catalysis is design an effective and less costly catalytic system for oxidation CO. The nano-sized α-Mn2O3 oxide has been prepared modified with 0.5 wt.% Pt. catalysts have characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) diffuse-reflectance infr...

The wet air oxidation of phenol over a commercial active carbon catalyst was studied in a trickle bed reactor (TBR) in the temperature and oxygen partial pressure ranges of 120–160 ◦C and 0.1–0.2 MPa, respectively. The performance of the active carbon was compared in terms of phenol and COD destruction. The weight change of active carbon due to reaction was also measured. Finally, oxic phenol a...

Ag core–TiO2 shell (Ag@TiO2) structured nanoparticles with Ag to TiO2 molar ratio of 1:1.7 were synthesized using one pot synthesis method and post calcination was carried out at 450 C for 3 h to convert it from amorphous to crystalline form. The Ag core and TiO2 shell formation was confirmed by TEM and AFM. The particle size analysis revealed the average size of Ag@TiO2 as approximately around...

The photocatalytic degradation of a common analgesic (acetaminophen) with titanium dioxide irradiated with low energy ultraviolet light (365 nm) was studied in order to determine the effect of several parameters such as catalyst’s weight, photochemical effect, and initial concentration. The results indicate that acetaminophen is degraded in the order of 4% by the photochemical effect. The prese...

In recent years, due to improvements in calculation methods and increased computer power, it has become possible to perform first-principles investigations for ‘simple’ chemical reactions at surfaces. We have carried out such studies for the catalytic oxidation of CO at transition metal surfaces, in particular, at the ruthenium surface for which unusual behavior compared to other transition met...

How does resistance arise in bacteria ? One process is simply selection; treatment with an antibiotic eliminates sensitive strains and enables an originally very small minority of resistant ones to survive and spread. This is undoubtedly what happened among staphylococci in the early days of penicillin. When exposure to a drug-antibiotic or synthetic-is followed by resistance in a previously se...

In this paper, a kinetic study of the oxidation of maleic and fumaric acid organic particles by gas-phase ozone at relative humidities ranging from 90 to 93% is reported. A flow of single component aqueous particles with average size diameters in the range 2.6–2.9 mm were exposed to a known concentration of ozone for a controlled period of time in an aerosol flow tube in which products were mon...

The chemical looping reforming (CLR) process, which utilizes a transition metal oxide based redox catalyst to partially oxidize methane to syngas, represents a potentially efficient approach for methane valorization. The CLR process inherently avoids costly cryogenic air separation by replacing gaseous oxygen with regenerable ionic oxygen (O(2-)) from the catalyst lattice. Our recent studies sh...