The AE&C single absorption–scrubbing process has long been an alternate to double absorption for the production of sulfuric acid. In recent years regulatory pressure to reduce SO2 emissions from sulfuric acid plants to 1.0-1.25 pounds of SO2 per ton of acid produced (to about 120 PPM) or less coupled with the increased value of energy has enhanced the desirability of the single absorption–scrub...

Other recent laboratory measurements for aqueous ammonium sulfate and sulfuric acid solutions show considerable variability in freezing point temperatures – much more than is predicted by the widely-used translated melting-point curve (TMPC) idea of Koop et al. (2000). This paper reports on results from laboratory measurements of homogeneous ice nucleation in aqueous droplets containing two com...

Frozen fraction measurements made using a droplet free-fall freezing tube apparatus are presented and used, with other recent laboratory measurements, to evaluate how well both the water activity idea and the translated meltingpoint curve idea of Koop et al. (2000) predict homogeneous freezing-point temperatures for aqueous ammonium sulfate and sulfuric acid solution droplets. The new freezing-...

Succinic acid is valued as a potential starting point for the production of chemicals of the C4 family or in the preparation of biodegradable polymers. For sustainable development in this era of petroleum shortage, production of succinic acid by microbial fermentation of renewable feedstock has attracted great interest. In this study, pretreatment with sulfuric acid and biotin supplementation w...

A novel magnetically recoverable Au nanocatalyst was fabricated by spontaneous green synthesis of Au nanoparticles on the surface of gum arabic-modified Fe3O4 nanoparticles. A layer of Au nanoparticles with thickness of about 2 nm was deposited on the surface of gum arabic-modified Fe3O4 nanoparticles, because gum arabic acted as a reducing agent and a stabilizing agent simultaneously. The resu...

One-pot reaction of aldehydes or ketons with aniline derivatives was performed using NaBH4 and Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs). The optimum amount of Fe3O4 MNPs was 5 mol% under solvent free condition. The corresponding products were obtained in good to excellent yields. The magnetically recoverable iron oxide nanoparticles are found to be efficient for synthesis of amine derivatives. These...

In this paper, Fe3O4-chitosan nanoparticles were prepared by the immobilization of chitosan on the surface of Fe3O4 nanoparticles. Then, the 5-substituted hydantoins were synthesized from the condensation of aldehyde derivatives, ammonium carbonate and zinc cyanide as a well-known cyanating agent by the magnetic Fe3O4-chitosan nanoparticles under neat conditions. Fe3O4-Chitosan nanocatalyst as ...

This communication reports a nanocatalyst-based electrochemical assay for proteins. Ultrasensitive detection has been achieved by signal amplification combined with noise reduction: the signal is amplified both by the catalytic reduction of p-nitrophenol to p-aminophenol by gold-nanocatalyst labels and by the chemical reduction of p-quinone imine to p-aminophenol by NaBH4; the noise is reduced ...