Glycine crystallizes in more than three different polymorphic forms, α, β and γ. The form α and form γ have been prepared by recrystallization and quench-cooling method, respectively. The physicochemical properties of αand γ-forms of glycine were investigated. Techniques used to study the polymorphs include X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), differential sc...

Biomass and other carbonaceous materials can be gasified to produce syngas with high concentrations of CO and H2. Feedstock materials include wood, dedicated energy crops, grain wastes, manufacturing or municipal wastes, natural gas, petroleum and chemical wastes, lignin, coal and tires. Syngas fermentation converts CO and H2 to alcohols and organic acids and uses concepts applicable in ferment...

Influence of nonflooding controlled irrigation (NFI) on solubility and leaching risk of soil organic carbon (SOC) were investigated. Compared with flooding irrigation (FI) paddies, soil water extractable organic carbon (WEOC) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in NFI paddies increased in surface soil but decreased in deep soil. The DOC leaching loss in NFI field was 63.3 kg C ha⁻¹, reduced by 4...

Gas chromatography used to calculate the specific retention volume of several hydrocarbons in different chromatographic liquid phases (Squalane, Carbowax-400, Carbowax-1500, Carbowax-4000, Amine220, Dinonyl phthalate, Tributyl phosphate and Trixylenyl phosphate). Some thermodynamic parameters, such as enthalpy of sorption and Flory-Huggins parameters relating the interaction between liquid phas...

The solubility parameter ofsoybean oil, 62, has been determined by the technique of inverse gas chromatography (IGC). Using soybean oil as the stationary phase, solute retention volumes were precisely determined as a function of temperature using 22 solute probes of varying solubility parameter (6]). Solvent (oil)-solute interaction parameters, X, were also calculated from the solute retention ...

New experimental data on liquid-liquid equilibria (LLE), solubility and critical states in quaternary system propionic acid – 1-propanol n-propyl propionate water at 303.15 K atmospheric pressure are presented. LLE was studied by Gas Chromatography (GC). Solubility (plait) points were investigated “cloud-point technique” method. Binodal curves surfaces presented concentration tetrahedron. The c...

One of the important challenges in geological storage of CO2 is predicting, monitoring, and managing the risk of leakage from natural and artificial pathways such as fractures, faults, and abandoned wells. The risk of leakage arises from the buoyancy of free-phase mobile CO2 (gas or supercritical fluid). When CO2 dissolves into formation brine, or is trapped as residual phase, buoyancy forces a...

Measuring soluble gas in the exhaled breath is a non-invasive technique used to estimate levels of respiratory, solvent, and metabolic gases. The interpretation of these measurements is based on the assumption that the measured gases exchange in the alveoli. While the respiratory gases have a low blood-solubility and exchange in the alveoli, high blood-soluble gases exchange in the airways. The...

The ability of foam to control the gas mobility in porous media is determined in part by the trapped (stationary) fraction of foam, Xt. The common approach to determining Xt is to replace some part of the gas by a “tracer gas” during the steady-state stage of the experiments and fitting the effluent data to a capacitance mass-transfer model. Diffusion between bubbles is quantified by the film p...