Catalytic Decomposition of 1,2-Dichlorobenzene Using Pt-Loaded Nanoporous Zeolite MFI Catalyst

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 3959-3963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung June Cho ◽  
Young-Kwon Park ◽  
Jong-Ki Jeon ◽  
Young Soo Ko ◽  
Jin-Heong Yim ◽  
...  

Nanoporous zeolite MFI was prepared by using HClO4 as a promoter. A significant proportion of the synthesized zeolite MFI nanoparticles exhibited nanoporous characteristics. Although the synthesis of the zeolite MFI was completed within 6 h, the crystallinity of all the zeolite MFI was shown to be high. The synthesis time of approximately 6 h used in this study was much shorter than the conventional hydrothermal method. The feasibility of the new nanoporous zeolite MFI towards the gas phase catalytic oxidation of a model for dioxin, 1,2-dichlorobenzene, was tested by comparing the catalytic activity of Pt/nanoporous zeolite MFI with that of a Pt/γ-Al2O3 catalyst. The catalytic activity of the Pt/nanoporous zeolite MFI was higher than that of the Pt/γ-Al2O3 catalyst. The internal surface area and acidity appears to be a major factor for the decomposition of 1,2-dichlorobenzene.

Catalysts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Giammaria ◽  
Gerard van Rooij ◽  
Leon Lefferts

The goal of this study is to develop a method to distinguish between plasma chemistry and thermal effects in a Dielectric Barrier Discharge nonequilibrium plasma containing a packed bed of porous particles. Decomposition of CaCO3 in Ar plasma is used as a model reaction and CaCO3 samples were prepared with different external surface area, via the particle size, as well as with different internal surface area, via pore morphology. Also, the effect of the CO2 in gas phase on the formation of products during plasma enhanced decomposition is measured. The internal surface area is not exposed to plasma and relates to thermal effect only, whereas both plasma and thermal effects occur at the external surface area. Decomposition rates were in our case found to be influenced by internal surface changes only and thermal decomposition is concluded to dominate. This is further supported by the slow response in the CO2 concentration at a timescale of typically 1 minute upon changes in discharge power. The thermal effect is estimated based on the kinetics of the CaCO3 decomposition, resulting in a temperature increase within 80 °C for plasma power from 0 to 6 W. In contrast, CO2 dissociation to CO and O2 is controlled by plasma chemistry as this reaction is thermodynamically impossible without plasma, in agreement with fast response within a few seconds of the CO concentration when changing plasma power. CO forms exclusively via consecutive dissociation of CO2 in the gas phase and not directly from CaCO3. In ongoing work, this methodology is used to distinguish between thermal effects and plasma–chemical effects in more reactive plasma, containing, e.g., H2.


Nanoscale ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 5737-5743 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. T. Papadas ◽  
K. S. Subrahmanyam ◽  
M. G. Kanatzidis ◽  
G. S. Armatas

A 3D mesoporous network of 6–7 nm BiFeO3 nanoparticles has been successfully prepared by a surfactant-assisted aggregating assembly process. These porous assemblies exhibit large internal surface area, uniform pore size, and impart high catalytic activity for the reduction of p-nitrophenol.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoottapong Klinthongchai ◽  
Seeroong Prichanont ◽  
Piyasan Praserthdam ◽  
Bunjerd Jongsomjit

AbstractMesocellular foam carbon (MCF-C) is one the captivating materials for using in gas phase dehydrogenation of ethanol. Extraordinary, enlarge pore size, high surface area, high acidity, and spherical shape with interconnected pore for high diffusion. In contrary, the occurrence of the coke is a majority causes for inhibiting the active sites on catalyst surface. Thus, this study aims to investigate the occurrence of the coke to optimize the higher catalytic activity, and also to avoid the coke formation. The MCF-C was synthesized and investigated using various techniques. MCF-C was spent in gas-phase dehydrogenation of ethanol under mild conditions. The deactivation of catalyst was investigated toward different conditions. Effects of reaction condition including different reaction temperatures of 300, 350, and 400 °C on the deactivation behaviors were determined. The results indicated that the operating temperature at 400 °C significantly retained the lowest change of ethanol conversion, which favored in the higher temperature. After running reaction, the physical properties as pore size, surface area, and pore volume of spent catalysts were decreased owing to the coke formation, which possibly blocked the pore that directly affected to the difficult diffusion of reactant and caused to be lower in catalytic activity. Furthermore, a slight decrease in either acidity or basicity was observed owing to consumption of reactant at surface of catalyst or chemical change on surface caused by coke formation. Therefore, it can remarkably choose the suitable operating temperature to avoid deactivation of catalyst, and then optimize the ethanol conversion or yield of acetaldehyde.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 964
Author(s):  
Thomas Steiner ◽  
Daniel Neurauter ◽  
Peer Moewius ◽  
Christoph Pfeifer ◽  
Verena Schallhart ◽  
...  

This study investigates geometric parameters of commercially available or recently published models of catalyst substrates for passenger vehicles and provides a numerical evaluation of their influence on heat-up behavior. Parameters considered to have a significant impact on the thermal economy of a monolith are: internal surface area, heat transfer coefficient, and mass of the converter, as well as its heat capacity. During simulation experiments, it could be determined that the primary role is played by the mass of the monolith and its internal surface area, while the heat transfer coefficient only has a secondary role. Furthermore, an optimization loop was implemented, whereby the internal surface area of a commonly used substrate was chosen as a reference. The lengths of the thin wall and high cell density monoliths investigated were adapted consecutively to obtain the reference internal surface area. The results obtained by this optimization process contribute to improving the heat-up performance while simultaneously reducing the valuable installation space required.


2004 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 1017-1021 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN B. LUCHANSKY ◽  
JEFFREY E. CALL

Commercially prepared frankfurters were formulated with and without ~1.4% potassium lactate and 0.1% sodium diacetate and were subsequently processed in cellulose casings coated with and without nisin (~50,000 IU per square inch of internal surface area) to control the outgrowth of Listeria monocytogenes during refrigerated storage. The frankfurters were inoculated with ~5 log CFU per package of a five-strain mixture of L. monocytogenes and then vacuum sealed before being stored at 4° C for 60 to 90 days. Surviving organisms were recovered and enumerated by rinsing each package with 18 ml of sterile 0.1% peptone water and plating onto MOX selective agar. The data for each of two trials were averaged. In packages that contained frankfurters formulated with potassium lactate and sodium diacetate and prepared in nisin-coated casings, L. monocytogenes levels decreased by 1.15 log CFU per package after 90 days of storage. L. monocytogenes levels decreased by 0.95 log CFU per package in frankfurters that were prepared in casings that were not coated with nisin. In packages of frankfurters that were formulated without potassium lactate and sodium diacetate and prepared in nisin-coated casings, L. monocytogenes levels decreased by 0.88 log CFU per package after 15 days of storage but then increased appreciablythereafter over a 60-day period of refrigerated storage. There was also an appreciable increase in pathogen numbers during 60 days of storage in otherwise similar frankfurters formulated without potassium lactate and sodium diacetate prepared in casings that were not coated with nisin. These data confirm that potassium lactate and sodium diacetate display listeriostatic activity as an ingredient of commercial frankfurters. These data also establish that cellulose casings coated with nisin display only moderate antilisterial activity in vacuum-sealed packages of commercially prepared frankfurters during storage at 4° C.


2004 ◽  
Vol 277 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Navarrete ◽  
Philip Llewellyn ◽  
Françoise Rouquerol ◽  
Renaud Denoyel ◽  
Jean Rouquerol

1962 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. L. Walker Jr. ◽  
W. V. Kotlensky

It is shown that the open pore volume within carbon blacks can be calculated from nitrogen adsorption isotherms (77°K) on the blacks. From this volume and a helium density, the apparent density of a black can be calculated. Other properties of the blacks which then can be calculated are free surface area, internal surface area, surface roughness factor, and the average pore diameter of the internal surface. These data are presented for five selected carbon blacks.


1952 ◽  
Vol 140 (900) ◽  
pp. 432-441 ◽  

In this paper, the general principles of lung growth already worked out in the rabbit (Short 1950) have been examined in the human lung. Using the same methods, a similar series of measurements have been made in embryonic and post-natal human lungs. Structural complexity has been measured in terms of internal surface area per unit volume of lung. Further support has been found for believing that the structural complexity of the lung is the result of tension in elastic fibres. At all stages of development a linear relationship similar to that found in the rabbit has been demonstrated between structural complexity of the lung on the one hand and a factor representing tension in elastic fibres (lung volume/interstitial volume) on the other. During the period of embryonic development, the structural complexity of the lungs of man and the rabbit is in very close agreement. It has also been found that the structural complexity per unit volume of the lungs at term in the mouse, rat, rabbit and man is the same. This suggests that the range of growth, between lung bud and term (responsible for the physical forces acting on elastic fibres and thus increasing the structural complexity), is the same in these four species. In man and the rabbit there are grounds for believing that the range of growth is indeed the same. Direct measurement of the volume of the lung rudiment at a stage when the tracheal bud has divided into two lumina in these two species shows them to be of the same order of size. Since the unit volumes at term are equal, the range of growth is equal in both species; a circumstance which accounts satisfactorily for the fact that the structural complexity at term is also the same in man and the rabbit. Calculation has also been made of the age at which formation of septa stops. In the two small species, the mouse and rat, the complexity of lung architecture probably increases throughout the post-natal period of growth. In the rabbit, differentiation is certainly complete by the third month of life, and in man is probably completed during the second year of life. Thereafter, continued growth of lung volume is accompanied by simple distension of the existing architecture. Further evidence bearing on growth and differentiation has been obtained from grossly hypoplastic lungs. In three cases of diaphragmatic hernia involving reduction of lung volume to one-sixth or less of normal size, structural complexity was found to be normal. Moreover, lobular size was also normal. Had the normal numbers of lobules been formed, their size must necessarily have been reduced. Therefore, reduction in total number of lobules and in total lung volume is not accompanied by structural hypoplasia of those lobules which are formed. The estimate of internal surface area per unit volume of lung in the adult mouse, rat, rabbit and man has been shown to increase as the smaller species are approached. On the other hand, the ratio of total internal surface area of the lung to body weight of these four species is probably to be regarded as a constant.


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