Hydrothermal synthesis of nickel-chitosan hybrid  has  been accomplished using Ni(CH3COO)2,4H2O, chitosan and water as starting material, template and solvent respectively, followed by calcination at 800 and 900˚C to provide nanoporous NiO800  and NiO900. The solid products were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), nitrogen adsorption-desorption, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Four...

Activated carbon from sawdust was produced with an environmentally friendly process involving single-stage carbonization and activation steam at 800°C. Production is scalable because lignocellulosic biomass ubiquitous worldwide as a waste or virgin material. Single-stage production without any cooling steps between easier in larger scale production. Monometal adsorption multimetal of cobalt, ni...

Mixed iron-manganese oxide nanoparticles, synthesized by a simple procedure, were used to remove nickel ion from aqueous solutions. Nanostructures, prepared by using different weight percents of manganese, were characterized by transmission electron microscopy, selected area diffraction, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and vibrating sample magnetometry. Adsorption/desorption isotherm cur...

Electrokinetic remediation technology is one of the developing technologies that offers great promise for the cleanup of soils contaminated with heavy metals. However, the performance of an electrokinetic remediation system depends on the interaction of a complex set of interrelated system variables and parameters. Many of these interactions were addressed in this study by incorporating geochem...

The aim of this research was to assess the treatment efficiencies for gully pot liquor of experimental vertical-flow constructed wetland filters containing Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. (common reed) and filter media of different adsorption capacities. Six out of 12 filters received inflow water spiked with metals. For 2 years, hydrated nickel and copper nitrate were added to siev...

ss as: Sa t bark. Abstract Biosorption of nickel ions from aqueous solutions by modified loquat bark waste (MLB) has been investigated in a batch biosorption process. The biosorbent MLB was characterized by FTIR analysis. The extent of biosorption of Ni(II) ions was found to be dependent on solution pH, initial nickel ions concentration, biosorbent dose, contact time, and temperature. The exper...

It is a long-standing controversy whether metal carbide clusters do exist during the nucleation and growth process of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). In the current work, we are trying to elucidate the carbon nucleation on nickel carbides during the initial stages based on density functional theory calculated formation energy and chemical potential for a series of Ni55Cn carbides (n is...

The adsorption characteristics and mechanisms of Ni2+ on four-standard biochars produced from wheat straw pellets (WSP550, WSP700) and rice husk (RH550, RH700) at 550 and 700 °C, respectively, were investigated. The kinetic results show that the adsorption of Ni2+ on the biochars reached an equilibrium within 5 min. The increase of the solid to liquid ratio resulted in an increase of Ni2+ remov...

The adsorption of hydrogen on a clean Ni(100) single crystal surface was studied in UHV between 120 K and 500 K means of LEED, thermal desorption spectroscopy and work function measurements. H2 chemisorption occurs in two atomic states ßi and ßz with maximum desorption rates (at saturation) at 318 K and 348 K. The activation energy for desorption was determined to be 20 ( ± 2) kcal/mole for the...

New experimental structure determinations for molecular adsorbates on NiO(100) reveal much shorter Ni-C and Ni-N bond lengths for adsorbed CO and NH3 as well as NO (2.07, 1.88, 2.07 A) than previously computed theoretical values, with discrepancies up to 0.79 A, highlighting a major weakness of current theoretical descriptions of oxide-molecule bonding. Comparisons with experimentally determine...