The goal of the present work is the design of a material that may act as a robust and low cost biosorbent fortreatment of wastewater with low concentration of metals ions, such as chromium and iron. The removal ofmetallic ions from binary aqueous solutions of Fe(III)/Cr(III) and Fe(III)/Cr(VI), by an Arthrobacter viscosusbiofilm supported on NaY zeolite was investigated. Experiments...

Wastewater treatment of some heavy metals was carried out by synthetic zeolite P1, which was prepared by alkaline hydrothermal treatment of the pumice. Both of the pumice raw materials and synthetic zeolite were investigated for their chemical phase composition, physical properties, and microstructure. The adsorption behavior of Na-zeolite P1 with respect to Co(+2), Cu(+2), Fe(+2), and Cd(+2) h...

Hoveyda-Grubbs type catalysts with cationic tags on NHC ligands were linker-free immobilized on the surface of lamellar zeolitic supports (MCM-22, MCM-56, MCM-36) and on mesoporous molecular sieves SBA-15. The activity of prepared hybrid catalysts was tested in olefin metathesis reactions: the activity in ring-closing metathesis of citronellene and N,N-diallyltrifluoroacetamide decreased in the...

Catalytic pyrolysis behavior of synthesized microporous catalysts (conventional Zeolite Socony Mobil–5 (C-ZSM-5), highly uniform nanocrystalline ZSM-5 (HUN-ZSM-5) and β-zeolite), Mesoporous catalysts (highly hydrothermally stable Al-MCM-41 with accessible void defects (Al-MCM-41(hhs)), Kanemite-derived folded silica (KFS-16B) and well-ordered Al-SBA-15 (Al-SBA-15(wo)) were studied with waste po...

Grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations employing a rigid framework are performed to explore the adsorption behaviors of some aromatics in the purely siliceous MCM-22 zeolite, ITQ-1. Benzene, toluene, m-xylene and o-xylene are separately simulated at 315 K, investigating a series of pressure from 0.1 to 14 kPa. The potential adsorbed sites of the studied molecules are determined from the...

Phenol is an important industrial intermediate for the production of various chemicals such as bisphenol A, phenolic resins, caprolactam, alkylphenols and adipic acid. The cumene hydroperoxide process is the currently used industrial method to produce phenol. Its environmentally stressing aspects have spurred research to replace this process with more benign approaches such as the direct oxidat...

The influence of framework substituents (Al3+, Ga3+, Fe3+ and B3+) and morphology (bulk vs. nanometer-sized sheets) of MFI zeolites on the acidity and catalytic performance in the methanol-to-hydrocarbons (MTH) reaction was investigated. The Brønsted acid density and strength decreased in the order Al(OH)Si>Ga(OH)Si>Fe(OH)Si≫B(OH)Si. Pyridine 15N NMR spectra confirmed the differences in the Brø...

Zeolite monolayers in solution, reported recently for the framework MWW, enable unprecedented synthetic capabilities that include preparation of molecularly intimate mixtures different zeolite topologies. As a demonstration, MWW-MFI hybrid materials were synthesized by two methods: in-situ crystallization MFI adding template and silica to solutions MWW obtained from MCM-56, ex-situ mixing layer...