0021-9517/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jcat.2011.06.016 ⇑ Corresponding authors. Fax: +1 513 556 3473. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P. Bool [email protected] (P.G. Smirniotis). High temperature water gas shift reaction (WGS) at low steam to CO ratios has been investigated over Fe2.4Ce0.3M0.3O4 (M = Cr, Co, Zr, Hf, and Mo) type of spinels in the temperature region of ...

Two flame retarded plastics have been pyrolysed in the presence of two Zeolite catalysts to remove the organobromine compounds from the derived pyrolysis oil. The flame retarded plastics were, acrylonitrile – butadiene – styrene (ABS) that was flame retarded with tetrabromobisphenol A and high-impact-polystyrene (HIPS) that was flame retarded with decabromodiphenyl ether. The two catalysts inve...

The kinetics of catalyst deactivation and coke formation during dehydrogenation of propane over supported Pt–based catalysts and, in particular, the effect of alkali metal promoters on catalyst activity and stability were studied. The analysis of propane conversion data showed that there is an optimum level of alkali metal promoter loading for both catalyst activity and stability.A model ba...

Carbon-based cathode catalysts derived from a hyperbranched iron phthalocyanine polymer (HB-FePc) were characterized, and their active-site formation mechanism was studied by synchrotron-based spectroscopy. The properties of the HB-FePc catalyst are compared with those of a catalyst with high oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity synthesized from a mixture of iron phthalocyanine and phenolic...

A number of catalysts based on cerium oxide have been synthesized to study the process plasma-catalytic decomposition CO 2 in a barrier discharge. For first time, an catalyst MgCe-Al has compared with samples containing composition only or magnesium oxide. It established that, presence sample, highest degree and energy efficiency get achieved. Keywords: discharge, oxide, low temperature plasma,...

Steam reforming is one of the most important processes for producing hydrogen from hydrocarbon fuels such as LPG and has attracted much attention due to its high efficiency and economy. In this study, the LPG steam reforming reaction was investigated on nickel catalysts supported on four various zeolites (H-Y, Na-Y, HZSM5 and Ferrierite). The catalytic tests were performed in a tubular fixed be...

Struvite is a solid phosphorus fertilizer that can be recovered easily from source-separated urine by dosing it with a soluble form of magnesium. The process is simple and low-cost, however, previous studies have shown that the cost of magnesium in low-income countries is crucial to the viability and implementation of struvite precipitation. Literature has proposed producing inexpensive magnesi...

Some of the magnesium ions in the ribosome are coordinated by multiple rRNA phosphate groups. These magnesium ions link distal sequences of rRNA, primarily by incorporating phosphate groups into the first coordination shell. Less frequently, magnesium interacts with ribosomal proteins. Ribosomal protein L2 appears to be unique by forming specific magnesium-mediated interactions with rRNA. Using...

The reaction mechanism of methanol oxidation catalyzed by vanadium oxides on a silica support (V2O5/ SiO2) was investigated in a high-throughput operando reactor coupled with a Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) imaging system for rapid product analysis and six parallel, in situ Raman spectroscopy probes for catalyst characterization. Up to six V2O5/SiO2 catalysts with different vanadium loadin...