Mineral calcination worldwide accounts for some 5–10% of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per year. Roughly half of the CO2 released results from burning fossil fuels for heat generation, while the other half is a product of the calcination reaction itself. Traditionally, the fuel combustion process and the calcination reaction take place together to enhance heat transfer. Syste...

In this work, hydrochloric acid is used to remove iron impurities in the bauxite ore contained in the diasporite mineral located in the Sari region. The bauxite ore was calcined at different temperatures and times, and then dissolved in a hydrochloric acid solution. After determining the optimum calcination conditions in 1 h at 900 °C, the response surface methodology (RSM) with four factors in...

In this paper, we successfully synthesize Fe(OH)(3) nanotubes involving the Kirkendall effect. Depending on the calcination conditions, both haematite and magnetite nanotubes are produced. This approach also provides a new synthetic alternative to nanotubes of nonlamellar-structured materials. The as-synthesized magnetite nanotubes have an application as a magnetic resonance imaging contrast ag...

The solid-state hydrolysis and air calcination of aluminum-doped TiCl3 leads to crystalline anatase TiO2 that is stable on heating to 1000 degrees C, in contrast to control studies with related AlCl3 and TiCl3 physical mixtures that produce rutile TiO2 under the same conditions.

Attrition of six different limestones was studied during calcium looping cycles for CO2 capture in a lab-scale fluidized bed apparatus. The tests were carried out under realistic conditions representative of a process with calcination in an oxy-firing environment. The focus of the activity was to investigate the effect of the presence of SO2 both in the calcination and in the carbonation stages...

The effects of chemical composition and preparation conditions, especially calcination atmosphere, water content and oxygen content on the catalytic performances of MoVTeNbO mixed oxide catalyst system for the selective oxidation of propane to acrylic acid have been investigated and discussed. Among the catalysts studied, the Mo1.0V0.3Te0.23Nb0.12O catalyst calcined in inert atmosphere under a ...

Mixed copper-cerium oxides were prepared by two methods leading to different wpper species in the as-prepared material. At the catalyst operating temperature (300400°C) and above, the same copper species was present irrespective of the prepration technique. A solid solution having the same fluorite structure as that of pure CeQ was formed and remained stable after calcination to 100O0C. At temp...

Nanosized copper aluminate (CuAl(2)O(4)) spinel particles have been prepared by a precursor approach with the aid of ultrasound radiation. Mono-phasic copper aluminate with a crystallite diameter of 17nm along the (311) plane was formed when the products were synthesized using Cu(NO(3))(2) x 6H(2)O and Al(NO(3))(3) x 9H(2)O as starting materials, with urea as a precipitation agent at a concentr...

A simple template-free approach to generate spherical porous anatase nanoparticles by combining the sol-gel process with the inverse miniemulsion technique is reported. These as-synthesized particles of about 200 nm in diameter consist of aggregated small anatase crystallites of several nanometers, thus leading to a high specific surface area of more than 300 m ·g, even after calcination at 400...