Kinetic study for different start up conditions of the anaerobic digestion of wastewater derived from the sago processing from tubers of tapioca (Mannihot utillisema) is discussed. The experiment is carried out with synthetic waste water using a tapered fluidized bed reactor. Mesoporous granulated activated carbon is used as a bacterial support. The kinetic model follows half order kinetics for...

Using a hexapole technique, a beam of gas phase oriented and state selected NO molecules is directed onto a CO precovered Pt(100) surface. Two quadrupole mass analyzers behind the platinum target record the yield of NO and CO, molecules leaving the surface. The platinum single crystal acts like a catalyst and the CO, reaction signal strongly depends on the initial NO orientation, that is to say...

This study aimed at improving the photocatalytic (PC) oxidation of humic acids (HA) in TiO2 suspensions by adding cationic ion such as calcium or magnesium. A set of tests was first conducted in the dark to study the adsorption of HA onto TiO2 in suspensions at different pH and calcium concentrations. The experiment demonstrated that the adsorption of HA onto the TiO2 particles was either pH-de...

Hydrogenation of six model feeds containing three-, two-, and one-ring aromatic compounds was investigated to gain insights into the aromatic hydrogenation reaction chemistry over a commercial NiMo catalyst under practical reaction conditions. The hydrogenation reactivity of the aromatic compounds followed the following order: phenanthrene ∼ two-ring aromatics . one-ring aromatic. Comparison wi...

This study developed an upgrading process focusing on acid transformations of water phase pyrolysis bio-oils to esters of oxygen-containing fuels via ZSM−5 catalyst. Temperature was set as a factor with five levels ranging from 60 to 135 °C with reaction time from 1 to 8 h. The results showed that 89% of high acid conversion and over 90% of ester selectivity was obtained from the feedstock via ...

Abstract-The asymptotic stability regions for the patterned steady-state solution in a two-particle catalytic CSTR, established by Arce and Ramkrishna (1991, A.IC1I.E. J. 37,98-l lo), are constructed using two approaches, Liapunov’s direct method and the construction of a trapping region. In addition, the trapping regions are also constructed for uniform steady-state solutions. Stability region...

Motivated by the need of developing stochastic nonlinear model-based methods to characterize uncertainty for chemical process estimation, control, identification, and experiment design purposes, in this paper the problem of characterizing the global dynamics of single-state nonlinear stochastic system is addressed. An isothermal CSTR with Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetics is considered as represent...

Photocatalytic degradation of Chlorpyrifos in aqueous phase by using photocatalyst TiO2 in the presence of artificial UV-light and sunlight was reported. Experiments were performed in both UV and solar light at optimized conditions. The degradation of insecticide was investigated in terms of reduction in COD. The effect of catalyst loading, pH, addition of oxidant on the reaction rate was ascer...

The title reaction is involved in the formation of ammonia in the interstellar medium. We have calculated thermal rates including atom tunnelling using different rate theories. Canonical variational theory with microcanonically optimised multidimensional tunnelling was used for bimolecular rates, modelling the gas-phase reaction and also a surface-catalysed reaction of the Eley-Rideal type. Ins...