The potential of Pleurotus ostreatus spent mushroom compost (PSMC) as a green biosorbent for nickel (II) biosorption was investigated in this study. A novel approach of using the half-saturation concentration of biosorbent to rapidly determine the uptake, kinetics and mechanism of biosorption was employed together with cost per unit uptake analysis to determine the potential of this biosorbent....

The equilibrium and kinetics of adsorption of NO and CO on nonstoichiometric nickel-copper manganites have been investigated through volumetric measurements. The adsorption isotherms were satisfactorily fitted to the Freundlich equation. The equilibrium coverages at 298 K were found to depend closely on the chemical composition of the oxide; thus, a decrease in the coverage beyond a maximum cop...

Introduction Environmental restriction regarding the quality of transportation fuels and the emissions from them are the most important issues. Because of more stringent regulations and fuel specifications regarding development of better method for deep-desulfurization of fuels are important. There has been recent interest in developing adsorbents for selective desulfurisation by adsorption. Me...

In this study, the effect of different parameters such as time and temperature of calcination and milling on the formation of calcium aluminosilicates was investigated. Raw materials used in this study were calcium carbonate and kaolin in high purity. Powder X-ray diffraction patterns were obtained from all samples after heat treatment at various temperatures and times. To study the microstruct...

Formaldehyde adsorption on NiO( 100) ultrathin films grown on a Mo(100) surface has been studied using combined thermal desorption and high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopies (HREELS). The results show that formaldehyde adsorbs molecularly on NiO( 100) film at 90 K and that concurrent polymerization of formaldehyde occurs extensively in the 90-270 K temperature range. Monomeric form...

The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) on Ni in alkaline media was investigated by scanning electrochemical microscopy under two operating modes. First, the substrate generation/tip collection mode was employed to extract the "true" cathodic current associated with the HER from the total current in the polarization curve. Compared to metallic Ni, the electrocatalytic activity of the HER is impro...

Active and durable electrocatalysts for methanol oxidation reaction are of critical importance to the commercial viability of direct methanol fuel cell technology. Unfortunately, current methanol oxidation electrocatalysts fall far short of expectations and suffer from rapid activity degradation. Here we report platinum-nickel hydroxide-graphene ternary hybrids as a possible solution to this lo...

Polarographic waves of certain metals, notably of lead, zinc, copper, cobalt, and nickel in dilute neutral solutions, diminish progressively with time in the presence of mercury and air. This behavior is not to be explained by adsorption, as has previously been supposed, but by a reaction between mercury. water, oxygen, and the ions of the metallic salt which, in some instances, precipitates th...

Electroless nickel plating baths have to be discarded when levels of phosphites build up and interfere with the plating process. OWMC funded research conducted at ORTECH International to determine whether phosphites could be removed from plating bath solution. The first attempt to do this by adsorption on flyash was unsuccessful. However, the use of calcium ion to precipitate calcium phosphite ...