Transition alumina, with different La loadings, were synthesized from boehmite (AlOOH) hydrosols containing a PEO/PPO/PEO triblock copolymer (Pluronics P123) and lanthanum nitrate. After calcination at 500 °C, the xerogels prepared from these sols have large specific surface area ( 400 m/g) and very large porous volumes, increasing with the amount of La to reach 2.5 cm/g for La/(La + Al) = 0.03...

During combustion of alternative fuels in the material inlet end of cement rotary kilns, local reducing conditions may occur and cause reductive decomposition of sulfates from calcined cement raw materials. Decomposition of sulfates is problematic because it increases the gas-phase SO2 concentration, whichmay cause deposit formation in the kiln system. In this study, the release of sulfur from ...

A network of ZrO2 nanorods was prepared using the porous biomembranes as templates. The sample was characterized by SEM, XRD and nitrogen physicosorption isotherm. ZrO2 nanoparticles were also prepared with a hydrothermal method in order to compare with this network. The results showed that after being calcined at 800 o C for 24 h, a volume contraction of ZrO2 nanorod network occurred accompani...

Pure nanocrystalline titanium Oxide (TiO2) powder has been synthesized by the sol-gel technique using titanium tetra-isopropoxide as the starting precursor. As-prepared samples were calcined at different temperatures, 400, 600, 800 and 900°C. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis was used to find the crystalline structure and changes in the polymorphs with calcination. The as-synthesized TiO2 powder...

Abstract The environment is a very important topic today as well in the future. One source of air pollution that has potential to harm health wear particles released by vehicle braking systems. If these come from hazardous materials, they could destroy human and environment. Based on conditions, exploring more environmentally friendly materials substitute friction necessary. In this study, brak...

Synthesis of Zn(2)Ti(3)O(8) powders for attenuating UVA using TiCl(4), Zn(NO(3))(2)·6H(2)O and NH(4)OH as precursor materials by hydrothermal process has been investigated. The X-ray diffractometry (XRD) results show the phases of ZnO, anatase TiO(2) and Zn(2)Ti(3)O(8) coexisted when the zinc titanate powders were calcined at 600 °C for 1 h. When calcined at 900 °C for 1 h, the XRD results reve...

Oxidation of bisphenol-A (BPA) was investigated using a sonophoto Fenton-like hybrid process under visible light irradiation in the presence of iron-containing perovskite LaFeO3 catalysts. For this purpose, firstly the perovskite catalyst (LaFeO3) was prepared by the sol-gel method and calcined at different temperatures (500, 700, and 800 ◦C). The prepared catalysts were characterized using XRD...

The calcined petroleum cokes are used in production of aluminum anode-grade, graphite electrode, needle-grade, titanium dioxide pigments. Petroleum coke (green and calcined) is produced by the high pressure thermal decomposition of heavy petroleum process streams and residues. Green coke undergoes additional thermal processing to produce calcined coke. Various properties of calcined cokes from ...

Mesoporous Ni–alumina catalysts (Ni–alumina-pre and Ni–alumina-post) were synthesized by one-step sol–gel method using micelle complex comprising lauric acid and nickel ion as a template with metal source and using aluminum sec-butoxide as an aluminum source. The Ni–alumina catalysts showed relatively high surface areas (303 m/g for Ni–alumina-pre and 331 m/g for Ni–alumina-post) and narrow por...