Extracts of soots obtained from various sources were applied to the skin of mice in an effort to identify carcinogens in these mixtures and to link these materials to the etiology of human cancer. Samples of coal chimney soot, coke oven materials, industrial carbon black, oil shale soot, and gasoline vehicle exhaust materials have been examined by this method. The studies reported here have bee...

A new method for the determination of the spatial distribution of metal surface area within bimodal micro-/meso-porous solids has been developed. This novel technique involves incorporating a nonane pre-adsorption stage between two successive chemisorption experiments. This method has been used to probe the distribution of platinum amongst the micropores and mesopores of a range of bi-functiona...

Reaction of the airways to inhaled Berodual was evaluated in two groups of metallurgists surveilled by systematic, complex medical examinations for appx. 25 years: 31 coke oven and 31 cold-rolling mill workers. All subjects under examination were active smokers, smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day. The frequency of ventilatory disorders (central bronchi obturation, small bronchi obturation, a...

In order to utilize high sulfur (3-6%) coals in various industries which otherwise cannot be utilized directly or even as a blend, studies on pyrolysis of four high sulfur NE regions Indian coals viz. 60ft Tikak, 20ft Tikak, Surupi and Bapung coal from Makum Coalfields of Meghalaya in presence of hydrogen were carried out at 900C. The steam was generated by heating waste water followed by its s...

Coke corresponds to 2/3–3/4 of the reducing agents in BF, and by partial replacement coking coals with 5–10% bio-coal, fossil CO2 emissions from BF can be lowered ~4–8%. Coking coal blends 5% 10% additions bio-coals (pre-treated biomass) different origins pre-treatment degrees were carbonized at laboratory scale a bio-coal addition technical scale, aiming understand impact on properties (ash am...

Conversion of propanal to gasoline-range molecules was investigated over a series of HZSM-5 catalysts with controlled mesoporosity generated by desilication. Characterization of the structure of the solid by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electronic microscopy (SEM), ammonia and isopropylamine temperature programmed desorption (TPD), and n-butane diffusivity measurements confirmed the...

Nano-SAPO-34 molecular sieves synthesized in a microwave environment with 20 nm crystal size showed a longer lifetime than SAPO-34 prepared by the conventional hydrothermal method in the reaction of methanol to olefins. It has been found that silicon distribution strongly affects the lifetime and selectivity. Thus, silicon at the border of the silicon islands gives a higher lifetime and lower C...

Quantitative analysis by X-ray powder diffraction of two cokes (pitch coke and petroleum coke) shows that their crystal structure changed with increasing temperature. The crystal data processing of the crystallization degree of disorder is used with further improvement of the proposed microcrystalline-stacking fault calculation method. With this improvement it is now possible to obtain the degr...