Moisture determination is of great importance in the production and use of many substances. For example, the moisture content can affect the efficiency of a chemical reaction or determine the shelf life of pharmaceuticals or foods. The standard method for moisture determination is Karl Fischer (KF) titration, based on either volumetry or coulometry. This thesis concerns new approaches to trace ...

The structural properties and activities of Cu-Co catalysts used in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis are explored according to their method of preparation. Impregnation, co-precipitation, and a novel method of thermal decomposition were applied to an inorganic precursor complex to generate the Cu-promoted alumina- and silica-supported cobalt catalysts. The precursors and the catalysts obtained by ...

Linear diffusion layer is an important part of lightweight block ciphers and hash functions. This paper presents an efficient class of lightweight 4x4 MDS matrices such that the implementation cost of them and their corresponding inverses are equal. The main target of the paper is hardware oriented cryptographic primitives and the implementation cost is measured in terms of the required number ...

in this paper, modeling and optimization of fischer-tropsch synthesis is considered in a fixed-bed catalytic reactor using an industrial fe-cu-k catalyst. a one dimensional pseudo-homogenous plug flow model without axial dispersion is developed for converting syngas to heavy hydrocarbons. the effects of temperature, pressure, h2 to co ratio in feed stream, and co molar flow on the mass flow rat...

accelerated deactivation of co/al2o3 catalysts in fischer-tropsch synthesis and the effect of re and ru as the catalytic promoters are reported. 15wt% co/al2o3 catalyst and 1wt% ru and 1.4wt% re  promoted cobalt catalysts have been formulated and extensively characterized. the deactivation of the unpromoted cobalt catalyst and those promoted with re and ru were studied by accelerated method at ...

Accurate determination of the moisture (water) content in individual feed ingredients and mixed feeds is critical throughout the feed industry. Most analytical methods used to determine apparent water content of feedstuffs are empirical, estimating water by evaporation and loss of weight on drying (oven drying methods). These methods differ greatly in effectiveness, resulting in bias. Bias asso...

A method for the linear discrimination of non parametric binary classification is presented. It searches for the discriminate direction which maximizes the generalized Patrick-Fischer distance between the projected classconditional densities. The theoretical background is introduced with a new estimator using orthogonal function according to the Patrick-Fischer distance that gives the best scal...

s & Poster presentations Fischer, A., Hoeger, S. J., Feurstein, D. J., Ernst, B., and Dietrich, D. R. (2007). Importance of organic anion transporting polypeptides (OATPs) for the toxicity of single microcystin congeners in vitro. 7th International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria, Rio das Pedras, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Feurstein, D., Fischer, A., and Dietrich, D. (2007). In vitro toxic...