One of the challenges to be confronted during landfill operations is to handle the landfill leachate with high ammonium content. Current biological ammonium removal processes either are complicated and hard to manage, or require major investments. Low cost and low maintenance onsite systems for the treatment of landfill leachate with high ammonium content are in urgent need, especially for land...

in this study, oxidation of some 3,5-diacyl or 3,5-diester 1,4-dihydropyridines to corresponding pyridine derivatives using sodium bromate in the presence of nh4cl, nahso4 and bu4nhso4 under thermal conditions has been investigated. the yield and structure of formed products is similar under all conditions; however, the reaction is accelerated in the presence of bu4nhso4 and nahso4. in addition...

A combustion-driven flow reactor was used to examine the formation of chlorinated and non-chlorinated species from the thermal oxidation of chlorobenzene under post-flame conditions. Temperature varied from 725 to 1000 K, while the equivalence ratio was held constant at 0.5. Significant quantities of chlorinated intermediates, vinyl chloride and chlorophenol, were measured. A dominant C-Cl scis...

Cr-Nb-Al-N coatings with Al content from 0 to 12 at.% were deposited by d.c. reactive magnetron sputtering. The coatings were annealed in protective atmosphere at 800 and 900 o C for 1h and exposed to air at 800, 900 and 1200 o C for different times. The chemical composition, structure, microstructure, hardness and adhesive/cohesive strength of the coatings, in as-deposited and annealed conditi...