The production of biodiesel through batch and existing continuous-flow processes requires the use of a much higher excess alcohol, typically 100%, than the stoichiometric molar requirement in order to drive the transesterification reaction to completion. This excess alcohol must be recovered in a separate process, which involves additional capital and operating costs. In this study, a novel rea...

In a novel dual bed reactor Fischer-Tropsch synthesis was studied by using two diffrent cobalt catalysts. An alkali-promoted cobalt catalyst was used in the first bed of a fixed-bed reactor followed by a Rutenuim promoted cobalt catalyst in the second bed. The activity, product selectivity and accelerated deactivation of the system were assessed and compared with a conventional single bed r...

Abstract: The objective of this work was to evaluate the influence pruning management mini-stumps Climax blueberry cultivar, when weekly fertigated, on productivity clonal mini-garden and rooting root vigor mini-cuttings. high survival (100%) production mini-cuttings (182.9 per square meter month) evidence adaptability material successive samplings nutritional conditions provided mini-garden, r...

Six advanced reactor concepts have been selected for Generation-IV reactors and are being investigated worldwide to meet the challenging goals of effective resource utilization and waste minimization (sustainability), improved safety, enhanced proliferation resistance, and reduced system cost. [1] The six systems are very high temperature reactor (VHTR), sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), superc...

objective(s): the aim of present research was to develop matrix-mini-tablets of lornoxicam filled in capsule for targeting early morning peak symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. materials and methods:matrix-mini-tablets of lornoxicam were prepared by direct compression method using microsomal enzyme dependent and ph-sensitive polymers which were further filled into an empty hpmc capsule. to asses...

in this paper, startup performance of upflow anaerobic hybrid reactor and upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors in anaerobic treatment of distillery spentwash has been studied under identical conditions of operation. various effluent characteristics like ph, electrical conductivity, chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demand and total solids and other process parameters like biogas p...

a model describing the main processes occurring in the uasb reactor was developed; in orderto maintain simplicity and applicability of the model, only the fundamental aspects were considered. in themodel, the reactor is divided in several well-stirred reactors coupled in series and it comprises substratedegradation, biomass growth and the reactions that take place within the granules. the impor...

This paper deals with the analysis of two tubular reactor models, the non isothermal tubular reactor model and a biochemical reactor model. It is shown in particular that multiple equilibrium profiles can be exhibited if the diffusion coefficients are large enough.

In the present work, the performance of a tubular electrochemical reactor operated with three different inlets (central, lateral and tangential) was evaluated. Fluid flow simulations through the electrochemical reactor were performed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The steady state fluid flow was simulated to visualize the velocity field behavior along the reactor for each different i...