A dehydrogenation anode is reported for hydrocarbon proton conducting solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). A Cu-Cr(2)O(3) nanocomposite is obtained from CuCrO(2) nanoparticles as an inexpensive, efficient, carbon deposition and sintering tolerant anode catalyst. A SOFC reactor is fabricated using a Cu-Cr(2)O(3) composite as a dehydrogenation anode and a doped barium cerate as a proton conducting ele...

Hydrogenolysis and dehydrogenation of propane were studied over model nickel–gold catalysts. The supported model Ni–Au catalysts were prepared by depositing Ni and Au onto a planar silica film. Infrared reflection absorption spectroscopic data showed that isolated Ni sites appeared and became dominant on the surface with the addition of Au to Ni. For the conversion of propane in the presence of...

Dehydrogenation of amine boranes is catalyzed efficiently by the iridium pincer complex (kappa (3)-1,3-(OP ( t )Bu 2) 2C 6H 3)Ir(H) 2 ( 1). With CH 3NH 2BH 3 (MeAB) and with AB/MeAB mixtures (AB = NH 3BH 3), the rapid release of 1 equiv of H 2 is observed to yield soluble oligomeric products at rates similar to those previously reported for the dehydrogenation of AB catalyzed by 1. Delta H for ...

From the mechanistic point of view, the dehydrogenation of fatty acids (as CoA esters), and of a few other biologically relevant molecules, such as succinate, is unique in that it involves the rupture of two kinetically stable C-H bonds. This is contrary to the flavin dependent dehydrogenation of most other substrates, as has been discussed elsewhere (1,2). Generally a single C-H bond, which is...

We present the application of a mathematical method reported earlier by which the van der Waals-Platteeuw statistical mechanical model with the Lennard-Jones and Devonshire approximation can be posed as an integral equation with the unknown function being the intermolecular potential between the guest molecules and the host molecules. This method allows us to solve for the potential directly fo...

This study performs the simulation and energy, exergy, economic analyses of an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) integrated with a natural gas combined cycle. Working fluids studied in this research are ammonia, isobutane, R-11, R-113, R-141b. The power plant ORC simulated using Aspen HYSYS software. results show that leads to improvement thermo-economic indexes plant. sensitivity analysis also demon...

Though numerous catalysts for the dehydrogenation of ammonia borane (AB) are known, those that release >2 equiv of H2 are uncommon. Herein, we report the synthesis of Mo complexes supported by a para-terphenyl diphosphine ligand, 1, displaying metal-arene interactions. Both a Mo(0) N2 complex, 5, and a Mo(II) bis(acetonitrile) complex, 4, exhibit high levels of AB dehydrogenation, releasing ove...

The tetranuclear ruthenium-mu-oxo-mu-hydroxo-hydride complex {[(PCy(3))(CO)RuH](4)(mu(4)-O)(mu(3)-OH)(mu(2)-OH)} (1) was found to be a highly effective catalyst for the transfer dehydrogenation of amines and carbonyl compounds. For example, the initial turnover rate of the dehydrogenation of 2-methylindoline was measured to be 1.9 s(-1) with the TON of 7950 after 1 h at 200 degrees C. The exten...

The direct α, β-dehydrogenation of aldehydes and ketones represents an efficient alternative to stepwise methods to prepare enal and enone products. Here, we describe a new Pd(TFA)(2)/4,5-diazafluorenone dehydrogenation catalyst that overcomes key limitations of previous catalyst systems. The scope includes successful reactivity with pharmaceutically important cyclopentanone and flavanone subst...