Based on a global kinetics of direct dimethyl ether (DME) synthesis process from syngas, a steady-state one-dimensional mathematical model for the bubble column slurry reactor (BCSR) has been established. It was built on the assumption of plug flow of gas phase, sedimentation-dispersion model of catalyst grains and isothermal chamber regardless of reaction heats and rates for the design of an i...

The degradation kinetics of glucuronic acid (GlcA) under subcritical conditions from 160 to 200 degrees C was studied in a continuous tubular reactor. The formation of glucuronolactone (GlcL) during the treatment of GlcA in subcritical water was substantiated by ESI-TOF-MS and (1)H NMR. The degradation of GlcA consisted of the reversible conversion of GlcA to GlcL and the irreversible degradati...

In the standard solar cell technologies such as crystalline silicon and cadmium telluride, increments of temperature in the cell produce large variations in the energy conversion efficiency, which decreases at a constant rate. In dye solar cells the efficiency remains roughly constant with a maximum at around 30-40 °C and further decays above this temperature. In this work, the origin of this c...

Polygalacturonase (PG) was extracted from tomato fruit. The inactivation kinetics of the PG crude extract was investigated under isothermal and isobaric-isothermal conditions. Thermal inactivation of tomato PG in the temperature range 58 to 65 8C could be described by a fractional conversion model, and in the temperature range from 70 to 90 8C by a biphasic model. Pressure-temperature inactivat...