effect of water gas shift reaction (co+h2o=co2+h2) on wustite reduction has been investigated by a transient, non-isothermal mathematical model based on grain model. in this model, wustite porous pellet is reduced using syngas, namely a mixture of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and water vapor. for this purpose, governing equations containing continuity equation of species and energy...

Simultaneous determinations exploiting the rates of reactions of different analytes with a common reagent, often referred to as differential kinetic analysis, is efficiently implemented in the flow analyser. To this end, specific strategies for pumping, commuting and/or detecting have been proposed. This review critically discusses the potentialities, limitations and application ranges of the d...

Aspartame is an artificial sweetener of low caloric value (approximately 200 times sweeter than sucrose). Aspartame is currently permitted for use in food and beverage production in more than 90 countries. The application of aspartame in food products requires development of rapid, inexpensive and accurate method for its determination. The new assay for determination of aspartame was based on s...

We show in detail how the presence of a heat bath of photons effectively gives charged particles in the final state of a decay process a temperature-dependent mass, and changes the effective strength of the force responsible for the decay. At low temperature, gauge invariance causes both these effects to be largely cancelled by absorption of photons from the heat bath and by stimulated emission...

We re-evaluate the nuclear matrix element for the proton-proton reaction p + p → H + e + νe, which is important for stellar-evolution calculations referring to stars with masses < ∼ 1M⊙ and for the solar-neutrino problem. We selfconsistently determine the effect of vacuum polarization on the matrix element by first correcting the low-energy scattering data to account for vacuum polarization. We...

Solutions are proposed for the central problem of estimating the reaction rate coefficients in homogeneous kinetics. The first is based upon the fact that the right hand side of a kinetic differential equation is linear in the rate constants, whereas the second one uses the technique of neural networks. This second one is discussed deeply and its advantages, disadvantages and conditions of appl...