Introduction The Water Gas Shift Reaction (WGSR), an important industrial reaction for the production of chemicals and/or hydrogen, is expected to play a key role in the integration of gasification technologies with a H2 production/recovery unit. The effluent stream of the gasifier, mainly H2, CO and CO2 at high pressure (up to 30 atm) and temperature (up to 1000C), will be directed to the wate...

When a steel pilot plant reactor was emptied, and left exposed to the humid summer atmosphere over a weekend, a heavy corrosion deposit formed on the inner surface. Because the process stream contained triflic acid (trifluoromethanesulfonic acid, CF3SO3H), the engineer wanted to determine whether the deposit contained triflate(s) [1]. The brown deposit was ground in a mortar and pestle. The maj...

We used a differential thermal detector in conjunction with an immobilized urease reactor to determine urea in serum. Samples (120 mul) are introduced into a flow stream and passed through an "adiabatic" column, which is packed with enough insolubilized urease to completely convert urea to ammonia and carbon dioxide. Measured temperature changes are directly proportional to the serum urea conce...

The concentration profiles along the feeding direction of a one side fed gel reactor are analyzed for the iodate-arsenous acid reaction. Multiplicity of inhomogeneous stationary solutions is derived. It is also shown that such profiles may undergo oscillatory bifurcations under long range activation conditions. The bifurcation diagram is analyzed using a Galerkin approximation, the asymptotic v...

We consider the problem of compressing a binary symmetric i.i.d. source stream for two decoders, one of which has access to sideinformation. Kaspi found the rate-distortion tradeoff for this problem for general discrete memoryless sources for the two cases with and without encoder side-information. We focus on the case in which the encoder has access to side-information. We assume that the sour...

In this study, effects of solid concentration, temperature, and initial Fe2+ concentration on bioleaching of sulfide mineral (chalcopyrite) obtained from Sarcheshmeh Copper Mine in the region of Kerman located in the south of Iran were investigated. A mesophilic iron oxidizing bacterium, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans has been isolated from a typical chalcopyrite copper concentra...

In this letter, we study the improvement that road-side stations can bring to the multihop connectivity of intervehicle communication in a traffic stream. With a recursive model of connectivity, we study impacts of different densities of road-side stations and different positions of road-side stations for uniform or non-uniform traffic streams.

The single-phase flow and thermal performance of a double pipe heat exchanger are examined by experimental methods. The working fluid is water at atmospheric pressure. Temperature measurements at the inlet and outlet of the two streams and also at an intermediate point half way between the inlet and outlet is made, using copper-constantan thermocouple wires. Mass flow rates for each stream are ...

In this study, the missile staging process by implementing a side-injected jet is simulated numerically. The problem is considered to be axisymmetric and the thin shear layer approximation of Navier-Stokes equations along with an algebraic turbulence model is used in a quasi-static form for the calculations. The free stream corresponds to a very high altitude flight condition with a Mach number...