Materials of steam water cycles can suffer from corrosion induced by halide anions in feedwater. Organic halogen compounds in feedwater can be degraded and release halide anions under high temperature and pressure. Therefore it is necessary to be able to measure the organic halogen concentration. Existing measurements including Adsorbable Organic Halogens and Gas Chromatography are either not c...

This paper describes the migration of four commonly found volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in landfill leachates e.g., benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes through 1.5mm thick high density polyethylene (HDPE) geomembranes. Diffusion and sorption tests were conducted at room temperature (i.e., 22C) on both unaged and 13-month aged geomembrane samples. Ageing of geomembrane was carried ou...

This paper reports on the design and experimental verification of a new class of nanoscaled AlN ContourMode Resonant Sensors (CMR-S) for the detection of volatile organic chemicals (VOC) operating at frequencies above 1 GHz and connected to a chip-based CMOS oscillator circuit for direct frequency readout. This work shows that by scaling the CMR-S to 250 nm in thickness and by operating at high...

Rotating-bomb calorimetry was first applied to organic compounds that contain chlorine, bromine, or sulphur. Techniques developed for these classes of compounds, mostly at the University of Lund and at the Bureau of Mines in Bartlesville, have been described in the book Experimental Thermochemistry-, The development of rotating-bomb methods made accurate combustion calorimetry feasible for othe...

The Michael addition of thiols to enones is reported as a new method for dynamic combinatorial library synthesis.