adsorbed natural gas has various advantages and is relatively more economical than liquefaction and compression. carbon nanotubes can be introduced as a new candidate for natural gas storage. in this study, adsorption of methane was firstly studied on the as-prepared multi-walled carbon nanotubes, and then chemical and physical treatment of mwcnts was performed to enhance the methane adsorption...

We employ a non-equilibrium Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) kinetic description to study the and chemical equilibration of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) at weak coupling. Based on our numerical framework, which explicitly includes all leading order processes involving light flavor degrees freedom, we investigate thermalization process homogeneous isotropic plasmas far-from equilibrium determine relevan...

In this work, the dry reforming of methane was studied using a corona and gliding discharge plasma microreactors. A chemical kinetic model was developed to describe the experimental behavior observed. The kinetic model is proposed based on the assumption that the reactant molecules CH4 or CO2 are attacked by active species produced b...

In this work, we model a radiofrequency discharge of hydrogenated silicon nitride in a capacitive coupled plasma reactor using Maxwellian and non-Maxwellian electron energy distribution function. The purpose is to investigate whether there is a real advantage and a significant contribution using non-Maxwellian electron energy distribution function rather than Maxwellian one for determining the ...

Adsorbed natural gas has various advantages and is relatively more economical than liquefaction and compression. Carbon nanotubes can be introduced as a new candidate for natural gas storage. In this study, adsorption of methane was firstly studied on the as-prepared multi-walled carbon nanotubes, and then chemical and physical treatment of MWCNTs was performed to enhance the methane adsorp...

Methane clumped isotope analysis is a tool used to constrain the formation or equilibration temperatures of methane, differentiate methane thermogenic, microbial ‘abiotic’ origins. Geothermometry applications are based on temperature dependence relative abundances multiply-substituted isotopologues in thermodynamic equilibrium, whereas assignments biogenicity ‘abiogenicity’ rely kinetic effects...

Methanogenesis from the non-physiological C1 donors thioproline, thiazolidine, hexamethylenetetramine, formaldehyde (HCHO), and HOCH2-S-coenzyme M (CoM) was catalyzed by cell extracts of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum under a hydrogen atmosphere. Tetrahydromethanopterin (H4MPT) and HS-CoM were required in the reaction mixture. The non-physiological compounds were found to be in chemical e...

The kinetic effects of plasma assisted fuel oxidization on the extinction of partially premixed methane flames was studied at 60 Torr by blending 2% CH4 into the oxidizer stream. The experiments showed that the non-equilibrium plasma can dramatically accelerate the fuel oxidization at low temperature. The prompt fuel oxidization resulted in fast chemical heat release and extended the extinction...