Spark-ignited internal combustion engines have evolved considerably in recent years in response to increasingly stringent regulations for emissions and fuel economy. One new advanced engine strategy ustilizes high levels of exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) to reduce combustion temperatures, thereby increasing thermodynamic efficiency and reducing nitrogen oxide emissions. While this strategy can...

The steam reforming of bio-oil is a promising and economically feasible technology for the sustainable H2 production, yet with main challenge designing highly active stable catalysts. This work aimed to study deactivation mechanism NiAl2O4 spinel derived catalyst, role Ni alumina sites in this appropriate reaction conditions attenuate deactivation. tests were carried out fluidized bed reactor p...

Nanocrystalline complex oxides have been synthesized by combination of sol–gel auto combustion and ultrasonic irradiation techniques using copper nitrate, zinc nitrate as metallic nitrates and glycine, urea and thiourea as fuels. Sol-gel combustion (combination of the chemical sol–gel process and the combustion process) as a proper synthesized technique is used to synthesize ZnO/CuO nanocomposi...

Highly conductive (conductivity 620 S cm−1) and transparent ITO thin films are achieved at low temperature (350 °C) through effective combustion solution processing via multistep coating. The properties show potential for next generation flexible electronics.

In CO2 methanation, spinel phases are often considered as undesirable leading to deactivation. However, they can also be well-dispersed solid solutions suitable catalyst precursors the formation of highly active and finely dispersed sites. Though, spinels such NiAl2O4, which form when Ni/Al2O3 supported catalysts used, require high reduction temperatures become active. To obtain a precursor, re...