In recent years, the rapid development of domestic alumina industry has greatly accelerated consumption high-alumina–silica-ratio bauxite resources in China. The an efficient and clean utilization technology applicable to low-grade China is not only a requirement for resource environmental protection, but also powerful guarantee maintain sustainable China’s aluminum industry. Based on this, aut...

A phospho-directed nanoreactor with multiple functions is reported. Alumina-functionalized macroporous ordered silica foams (Al-MOSF) have been developed with large pore size, high pore volume (1.6 cm(3)/g), and a surface area of 186 m(2)/g rich in coordination unsaturated Al species, which can be used as phospho-directed nanoreactors for integrated in situ digestion and in situ phosphoisolatio...

Synergy and antagonism between sugar-based surfactants, a group of environmentally benign surfactants, and cationic surfactants and nonionic ethoxylated surfactants have been investigated in this study with solids which adsorbs only one or other when presented alone. Sugar-based n-dodecyl-β-D-maltoside (DM) does not adsorb on silica by itself. However, in mixtures with cationic dodecyltrimethyl...

Nanofluids are engineered colloids composed of nano-size particles dispersed in common fluids such as water or refrigerants. Using an electrically controlled wire heater, pool boiling Critical Heat Flux (CHF) of Alumina and Silica water-based nanofluids of concentration less than or equal to 0.1 percent by volume were measured. Silica nanofluids showed CHF enhancement up to 68% and there seems ...

The eastern part of the Adelaide Geosyncline contains well preserved glaciomarine sequences of the Sturtian glaciation (:750–700 Ma) including calcareous or dolomitic siltstone, manganiferous siltstone, dolostone and diamictite units and the associated Braemar ironstone facies. The ironstone facies occurs as matrix to diamictites and as massive to laminated ironstones and comprises abundant Fe ...

This study was conducted to enhance the tensile bond strengths of resin cements to zirconia ceramics. Fifty-six zirconia ceramic specimens (Cercon Base) and twenty-eight silica-based ceramic specimens (GN-1, GN-1 Ceramic Block) were air-abraded using alumina. Thereafter, the zirconia ceramic specimens were divided into two subgroups of 28 each according to the surface pretreatment; no pretreatm...

The depolymerization of lignin to bioaromatics usually requires a hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) step to lower the oxygen content. A mixed Cu-Mg-Al oxide (CuMgAlO x ) is an effective catalyst for the depolymerization of lignin in supercritical ethanol. We explored the use of Ni-based cocatalysts, i.e. Ni/SiO2, Ni2P/SiO2, and Ni/ASA (ASA = amorphous silica alumina), with the aim of combining lignin de...

Acid-base properties of excipient surfaces have been studied by photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) in the visible absorption range using seven acid-base indicators. The acid strength (Ho) of each excipient was determined from the PA spectral patterns of the indicators. The Ho values of silica-alumina, silica-magnesia and crystalline cellulose were determined to be between 3.3 and -3 .0, between 4...

A comprehensive method was developed for quantitative analysis of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzo-furans (PCDD/Fs) in one single extract of environmental samples. The sample preparation procedure included two fractionation steps using silver nitrate silica chromatography to separate PBDEs from PCBs and PC...

The most acidic OH groups in silica-aluminas (zeolites, clays, amorphous silica-aluminas) can be made to react selectively with C(6)D(6) to give acidic OD groups; quantification by IR spectroscopy shows that differences in the overall Brønsted acidity of aluminosilicates are dominated by differences in the density of sites of similar acid strength.