In this study, Cu nanoparticles were immobilized on the surface of natural bentonite using Thymus vulgaris extract as a reducing and stabilizing agent. The natural bentonite-supported copper nanoparticles (Cu NPs/bentonite) were characterized by FTIR spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spe...

صلاخلا ــ ة : مت ةقرولا هذه يف ءاشنإ يف هدعاسملل مدقتم ماظن بناوج ذيفنتو ميمصت ضرع قتو و مي ءادأ حيحصت تارفش لأا ءاطخ ةليلق لا ةناتم ، ةينبم ىلع ءوفاكتلا رايتخا . موقي امه نيتيسيئر نيتفيظوب ةساردلا هذه يف مدقتملا ماظنلا : 1 ادأ باسحل ةيزاوتملا هاآاحملا ء تارفش حيحصت لأا ءاطخ ةليلق نمزب ةفاثكلا ادج ريصق ةنراقم ةمظنأب ةاآاحملا ةدوجوملا . 2 ةليلق ءاطخلأا حيحصت تارفشو فعضلا قطانم صحف نع ة...

Abstract—Fly ash is a waste material of coal firing thermal plants that is released from thermal power plants. It was defined as very fine particles that are drifted upward which are taken up by the flue gases. The emerging amount of fly ash in the world is approximately 600 million tons per year. In our country, it is expected that will be occurred 50 million tons of waste ash per year until 2...

In spite of the excellent resistance of stainless steel (SS) towards uniform corrosion, overcoming various localized corrosion could be a real challenge. This work presents an analysis of the failure behavior of 316L SS air chiller tube with a peripheral crack used in a Qatari gas company in Qatar. Macroscopic failure characteristics were analyzed by means of visual inspection, digital imaging ...

The core-shell method is used as a novel synthetic process of micronized Ti-Zeolite Na-A which involves calcination at 700°C of coated Egyptian Kaolin with titanium tetrachloride in acidic medium as the first step. The produced Ti-coated metakaolinite is subjected to microwave irradiation at low temperature of 80°C for 2 h. The prepared micronized Ti-containing Zeolites-A (Ti-Z-A) is characteri...

Nanoparticles (NPs) have received more attention as antiparasitic agents. In the present study, silver and copper nanoparticles were synthesized and characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF). The antiparasitic activity of Ag and CuO nanoparticles were tested against two of the most environmentally spread parasites...

Polyester based particle reinforced composites were developed using varying weight fractions (ranging from 0 to 30 wt%, at 5 wt% interval) of microcrystalline wood charcoal powder (75µm). Quantitative, qualitative and functional characterization (WC) particles polyester matrix was carried out successfully energy dispersive x-ray spectrophotometer (EDXRF), Fourier transform infrared spectrometer...

X-ray fluorescence (XRF), a rapid, noninvasive, low-radiation-dose method of measuring bone lead content, has emerged as a promising tool for providing an integrated estimate of low-level lead accumulation in epidemiological studies. Our group has settled on an XRF instrument that utilizes K X-rays (K-XRF) and normalizes the measurement to bone calcium. The unit of measurement provided is in mi...

The application of electrochemical X-ray fluorescence (EC-XRF), for the detection of palladium (Pd) contamination in a range of solutions containing electrochemically active compounds, present in excess and relevant to the pharmaceutical and food industries, is reported. In EC-XRF, EC is used to electrochemically pre-concentrate metal on an electrode under forced convection conditions, whilst X...