In this paper, the influence of water glass types, modulus glass, alkali content, consumption, and plant fibers on mechanical strengths alkali-activated blast furnace slag powder (BFS) is investigated. Moreover, fiber types pretreatment measuring temperature performance BFS are further considered. Results indicate that activated by potassium silicate shows higher than sodium silicate. The with ...

Silver nanoparticles were prepared by using alkali treated maize starch which plays a dual role as reducer for AgNO3 and stabilizer for the produced AgNPs. The redox reaction which takes a place between AgNO3 and alkali treated starch was followed up and controlled in order to obtain spherical shaped silver nanoparticles with mean size 4-6 nm. The redox potentials confirmed the principle role o...

Mixed hardwood chips were treated with lignin-degrading fungi to study the effect of fungal pretreatment on bleaching characteristics of kraft pulp. Pretreated wood chips were subjected to reduced active alkali doses in comparison to untreated chips. Comparable results were obtained for pretreated chips with reduced alkali dose as was obtained with higher dose of alkali in case of untreated chi...

Particulate, and digitonin-solubilized, enzyme systems from Phaseolus aureus and Lupinus albus catalyze the biosynthesis of aqueous-insoluble glucans from UDP-d-glucose. The digitonin treatment greatly increases the enzymic activity of (per unit protein) both the 34,000g pellet and the supernatant liquid as compared with that of the original particles. Most of the polymer produced (90-95%) is s...

A yellow, alkali-clearable azo disperse dye containing a carboxylic ester moiety was readily synthesized from the reactant p-aminobenzoic acid by successive diazotization, coupling reaction, chlorination and esterification with ethanol. Then its molecular structure was characterized by FTIR, H NMR, C NMR, mass spectrometry and elemental analysis. The synthesized dye and a similar control dye co...

Aggregates containing certain constituents can react with alkali hydroxides in concrete. The reactivity is potentially harmful only when it produces significant expansion (Mather 1975). This alkali-aggregate reactivity (AAR) has two forms—alkali-silica reaction (ASR) and alkali-carbonate reaction (ACR, sometimes called alkali-carbonate rock reaction, or ACRR). ASR is more often a concern than A...

Aggregates containing certain constituents can react with alkali hydroxides in concrete. The reactivity is potentially harmful only when it produces significant expansion (Mather 1975). This alkali-aggregate reactivity (AAR) has two forms—alkali-silica reaction (ASR) and alkali-carbonate reaction (ACR, sometimes called alkali-carbonate rock reaction, or ACRR). ASR is more often a concern than A...