Internationally exploited lubricants are derived from coal and petroleum. Due to their high consumption and effects of their long-term pollution on the environment, it is imperative to use renewable and cheap feedstock for the synthesis of bio-based lubricants. This study presents the synthesis and optimization process of Ethylene Glycol (EG) based bio-lubricant from palm kernel oil. Palm Kerne...

We investigated the analytical acceptability of ethylene glycol-based control sera by preparing sets of aqueous and ethylene glycol-based specimens that had added uric acid, calcium, creatinine, glucose, urea, sodium, and potassium. Ethylene glycol caused a significant systematic proportional bias in procedures involving dialysis, but had no discernible effect on methods not involving dialysis....

-A stable 8.4/~ hydrate of kaolinite was prepared by exchanging ethylene glycol for water in the 10.8 A intercalate of ethylene glycol in kaolinite. The hydrate of kaolinite was characterized by XRD, FTIR and TGA/DSC. From the TGA data, one can estimate that there is 0.60 water molecule per A12Si20~(OH)4 units. The IR data suggest a similarity of the local environment of the intercalated water ...

Nano fluids are having wide area of applications in heat transfer equipments. In the present work graphene nanoparticles, Dispersed in De-ionized water (DI), Ethylene Glycol (EG) based nano fluids were developed. Thermal conductivity and convective heat transfer properties of these nanofluids were systematically investigated. In the present investigation thermal convection of glycol based nanof...

OBJECTIVE To determine the permeability of human metaphase II oocytes to ethylene glycol and water in the presence of ethylene glycol, and to use this information to develop a method to vitrify human oocytes. DESIGN An incomplete randomized block design. SETTING A university-affiliated assisted reproductive center. PATIENT(S) Women undergoing assisted reproduction in the Center for Reprod...

Ethylene glycol (EG) is a model system for studying complex hydrogen bonding networks in biological compounds such as polysaccharides and sugars. Using in situ high-pressure Raman and infrared absorption spectroscopy, we have investigated the pressure induced variation in the conformations and hydrogen bonding interactions in this compound up to 10 GPa. The high-pressure behavior of Raman modes...

In this work, a very facile one-pot hydrothermal synthesis approach has been developed for the preparation of ultrathin magnetite nanoplates. The hydrothermal procedure was performed by aging ferrous hydroxide under anaerobic conditions, which is known as Schikorr reaction. Ethylene glycol (EG), which was introduced to the reaction as another solvent, played a critical role in the formation pro...

An Fe group ternary nanoalloy (NA) catalyst enabled selective electrocatalysis towards CO2-free power generation from highly deliverable ethylene glycol (EG). A solid-solution-type FeCoNi NA catalyst supported on carbon was prepared by a two-step reduction method. High-resolution electron microscopy techniques identified atomic-level mixing of constituent elements in the nanoalloy. We examined ...

A facile and efficient method was developed for the synthesis of highly active palladium nanoparticles (PdNPs) by microwave-assisted chemical reduction. The PdNPs with different morphology were prepared with or without KBr (capping agent) using ethylene glycol (EG) and citric acid (CA) as reducing agent in the presence of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), respectively. The as-prepared PdNPs were char...

We have exploited the "interference" of ethylene glycol in the Du Pont aca triglyceride method to develop a convenient and rapid screening method for detecting ethylene glycol in serum. Pretreatment of patient's serum with lipase, glycerol kinase, and other cofactors usually added for triglyceride analysis removes triglycerides and glycerol, but not ethylene glycol, from the sample. The aca tri...