Abstract Biomass and waste polystyrene plastic (ratio 1:1) were co-pyrolysed followed by catalysis in a two-stage fixed bed reactor system to produce upgraded bio-oils for production of liquid fuel aromatic chemicals. The catalysts investigated ZSM-5 impregnated with different metals, Ga, Co, Cu, Fe Ni determine their influence on bio-oil upgrading. results showed that the added metals had impa...

Reaction of [PPN][Fe(NO)2(SePh)2] (1) with dimeric [Ni(mu-SCH2CH2SCH2CH2S)]2 in the presence of additional NO2- produced the neutral heterobimetallic [(ON)Ni[(mu-SCH2CH2)2S]Fe(NO)2] complex (2). The X-ray crystal structures of 1 and 2 show distorted tetrahedral iron dinitrosyl groups, assigned according to the Feltham-Enemark notation as [Fe(NO)2]9 The Fe-NO bonds are off linearity by an averag...

Hydrogenase [hydrogenase: (acceptor) oxidoreductase, EC 1.12. . -1 is present in many bacteria. It is one of the enzymes having potential use in the biophotolysis of water (Weaver et al.. 1980). When we began our research on hydrogenase in 1977, two types of enzymes were known: (i) enzymes containing 12 Fe atoms and an equivalent amount of acid-labile S atoms and (ii) enzymes containing only fo...

OBJECTIVE The aims of the study are to assess the marginal accuracy of base metal and titanium alloy casting and to evaluate the effect of repeated ceramic firing on the marginal accuracy of base metal and titanium alloy castings. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty metal copings were fabricated with each casting material. Specimens were divided into 4 groups of 10 each representing base metal alloy...

Expanded multilayered vermiculite (VMT) was successfully used as catalyst support and Ni/VMT synthesized by microwave irradiation assisted synthesis (MIAS) exhibited excellent performance in our previous work. We also developed a two-dimensional porous SiO2 nanomesh (2D VMT-SiO2) by mixed-acid etching of VMT. Compared with three-dimensional (3D) MCM-41, 2D VMT-SiO2 as a catalyst support provide...

The introduction metallocenes, in particular ferrocene (Fe(η-C5H5)2), cobaltocene (Co(η-C5H5)2), and nickelocene (Ni(η-C5H5)2), together with the carborane source molecule closo-1,2-dicarbadodecaborane, during plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, will result in the transition metal doping of semiconducting boron carbides. Here we report using ferrocene to introduce Fe dopants, and a semic...

the nanoparticles of ni–si mixed oxides were prepared by co-precipitation method using nickel nitrate; ni(no3)2 6h2o and tetraethylorthosilicate (teos). the products were characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), transmission electron microscopy (tem), and hydrogen temperature program reduction (h2-tpr). the results revealed that ni–si mixed oxides particles were obtained with average particle ...

Magnetic Shape-Memory (MSM) materials are a new category of actuator materials with the potential to produce both large actuator strain and rapid response. To explore the possibility of developing MSM materials based on Fe-Ni-Co-Ti alloys, the effects of chemical composition (Co/Ni ratio) and ausaging on microstructure and magnetic shapememory response were studied. A suitable choice of chemica...

Micro-coiled fibers of carbon, Sic, Si N Tic, ZrC and Hf C were prepared by a metal-impurity activa?e%'chemical vapor deposition or vapour phase metallizing of the coiled carbon fibers. The growth conditions, morphology, growth mechanism and some properties were examined. The double-coiled carbon fibers were prepared using acetylene as a carbon source and various powders or plates of transition...