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... A separator coupling cyclone with built-in granular bed filter was proposed for gas purification. By analyzing available data in published literature and experimental results, a new model for predicting the separation performance of the coupled separator was obtained by regressing against a broad range of parameter governing the dusts collection in the coupled separator. In particular, the mutual ...
... The abundantly released tail-gas from lignocellulose pretreatment with phosphoric acid plus hydrogen peroxide (PHP) was found to accelerate the aging of latex/silicone textural accessories of the pretreatment device. Inspired by this, tail-gas was utilized to control organic pollutants. Methylene blue (MB), as a model pollutant, was rapidly decolorized by the tail-gas, and oxidative degradation wa ...
... Gas hydrates usually contain a certain number of empty cages that will both affect the hydrate stability and reduce the gas storage capacity. In this work, by MD simulations, we found that the hydrate stability is related to the cage occupancy, the empty cage types, and especially the distribution of empty cages. With the decrease of overall occupancy, the stability of hydrate becomes worse. Under ...
coal; environmental monitoring; gases; health effects assessments; lung neoplasms; people; thyroid neoplasms; toxicity; traffic; winter; China
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... We established long-term surveillance sites in Jinan city to monitor PM₂.₅ particles (PM2.5) and PM2.5-bound PAHs (2014–2020). The range of PM2.5 was 15–230 µg/m³. The average annual ƩPAH₁₆ were 433 ± 271 ng/m³ (industrial area) and 299 ± 171.8 ng/m³ (downtown). PAHs captured in winter accounted for 61.5% (industrial area) and 59.1% (downtown) of total PAHs. A hazardous seasonal benzo[a]pyrene lev ...
energy; fields; gas hydrate; gases; production technology; seals; water reservoirs; wells
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... Gas hydrate production technologies commonly feature reservoir depressurization. Depressurization occurs when a pressure gradient is established in a well, drawing mobile water from the reservoir and reducing reservoir pressure. As such, the occurrence of mobile water is a necessary condition for effective gas production from gas hydrate reservoirs using common borehole-based methods. However, rec ...
chitosan; desulfurization; environmental technology; gases; gels; halloysite; hot water treatment; manganese; manganese monoxide; microparticles; pollutants; pollution; temperature
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... The quenching process has the characteristics of complex pollutant composition, high purification difficulty, and serious environmental pollution. In order to meet the national emission standards, the coke quenching tail gas containing SO₂ must be treated. In this paper, halloysite is selected as carrier, modified by low-temperature molten salt etching, manganese oxide is supported by hydrothermal ...
ambient temperature; behavior; chemical communication; gases; porous media
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... Herein we report a two-fold interpenetrating pillar-layer microporous material, whose framework severely shrinks after losing guest molecules and transforms into a stable nonporous one. More importantly, the guest-free framework has rarely seen temperature-dependent gate-opening behaviours for C2 gases around room temperature. ...
... We present a fully coupled pore-network/free-flow model providing pore-scale insight into drying processes. We solve the Navier–Stokes equations with component transport in the free-flow region, coupled to a dynamic two-phase, two-component pore-network model (PNM) in the porous domain. The dynamic multi-physics model allows to temporally resolve drying processes in-between capillary equilibrium s ...
... Traditional methods to recover vanadium from vanadium slag by oxidizing V(III) in slag to V(V) at above 800 °C, result in discharge of significant amount of residue containing Cr, Ti, Fe, and wastewater containing highly toxic V(V) and Cr(VI). Then V₂O₅ was reduced to low valence vanadium (LVV) for applications, such as vanadium flow battery, vanadium alloy. It is necessary to effectively utilize ...
... Due to safety and control considerations, gas flaring is inevitable in chemical processes. In 2018, 17.3 billion cubic meters of flare gas had burned in Iran, which implies a significant economic loss and the emission of almost 150 million metric tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. This significant amount of flaring has made Iran the third largest flaring country in the world. Various meth ...
Mewa S. Dhanoa; Secundino López; Christopher D. Powell; Ruth Sanderson; Jennifer L. Ellis; Jo-Anne M. D. Murray; Anna Garber; Barbara A. Williams; James France
... Gas production profiles typically show a monotonically increasing monophasic pattern. However, atypical gas production profiles exist whereby at least two consecutive phases of gas production or additional extraneous features that distort the typical profile are present. Such profiles are more likely to occur with the use of a fecal inoculum and are much less well described. The presence of multip ...
absorption; ammonia; diffusivity; energy conservation; gases; industrial applications; mass transfer; pollutants; pollution; process design; solubility; toxicity; vapor pressure
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... Ammonia (NH₃) is an important chemical in several fields, such as agriculture, pharmaceutical, material, and chemicals manufacturing. However, NH₃ is a toxic gaseous pollutant and NH₃ release results in environment pollution. Minimizing NH₃ emission is of great significance for solving NH₃-related environmental issues and promoting the reuse of NH₃ resources. Ionic liquids (ILs) are energy-saving ...
... We report a novel approach to economically fabricate dual-layer composite nanoparticle-containing carbon molecular sieve (CMS) hollow fiber membranes having excellent gas separation performance. The economically favored process comprises dip coating engineered support layer fibers to form a dense skin layer in a CMSCMS precursor. The coated fibers are then pyrolyzed to form a high-performance CMS ...
... A novel self-catalytic activation approach is developed for the preparation of hierarchically porous carbon from rotten potato wastes. Metals already existing within the rotten potatoes were used as the catalysts and gases emitted during pyrolysis were used as the activating reagents, leading to the cleaner production of hierarchically porous carbon materials without additional reagents. The as-ma ...
byproducts; carbon dioxide; environmental protection; exergy; gases; models; temperature
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... Reducing CO₂ emission is particularly important for environmental protection. Much absorbed CO₂ in the conventional Rectisol process is discharged as tail gas due to the lacked attention to the by-product CO₂. In this paper, a novel CO₂ capture process, which is improved from the conventional Rectisol process, is proposed to reduce the emission of CO₂. The revised CPA model shows a good performanc ...
equipment; fumigants; fumigation; gases; humidity; nitrogen; phosphine; research; temperature
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... The canister is a critical component of non-powered air-purifying respirators that protects operators from fumigation environments but which typically lacks equipment for the detection of harmful agents. Based on research of the common fumigant phosphine, a device is herein designed to test the phosphine filtering ability of different canisters, and methods of device operation are discussed. The e ...
... A gas-solid fluidized bed reactor composed of Geldart Group C fine powers with the addition of nano-additives (Group C⁺) has recently been shown to have higher reaction conversion and better contact efficiency than the same reactor composed of Geldart Group A particles due to the increased gas holdup in the dense phase and the increased gas-solid interfacial area. Based on our earlier findings tha ...
... Few studies focus on the simultaneous removal performance and mechanism of H₂S and SO₂ mixture in Claus tail gas with a high concentration of H₂O (20–30 vol.%) and CO₂ (8–10 vol.%). In this paper, the effects of H₂O and CO₂ on the simultaneous removal of H₂S and SO₂ for the by activated carbon (TL-1) were studied. Fresh (TL-1-F) and desulfurisation sulfur-loaded TL-1 activated samples (TL-1-E1 and ...
adsorption; exhibitions; gases; journals; materials; screening; separation; sieves; sieving; temperature
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... Sodalite zeolitic-imidazole frameworks (ZIFs) show great potential due to their effective aperture sizes suitable for small gas separations. Numerous efforts have, therefore, been made in tuning their effective aperture sizes to control and enhance their molecular sieving properties. Herein, we present a new strategy to finely tune the effective aperture size of CdIF-1, a cadmium-substituted ZIF-8 ...
animal husbandry; aquatic environment; arsenic; atmospheric deposition; cadmium; carcinogenicity; gases; health effects assessments; heavy metals; human health; industrial wastewater; models; nickel; risk; risk assessment process; rivers; traffic; water; watersheds; China
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... Huangshui River (HSR) is the mother river of Qinghai province. Croplands and grasslands cover more than 76% of the total area, and highland agriculture and animal husbandry are the dominant industries. The use of pesticides, fertilizers, and feed additives increases the risk of heavy metal (HM) contamination. In this study, the concentration of HMs in the main stream and tributaries of HSR were in ...