scholarly journals Neutralization of Industrial Water by Electrodialysis

Membranes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Petrov ◽  
Natalia Iwaszczuk ◽  
Tina Kharebava ◽  
Irina Bejanidze ◽  
Volodymyr Pohrebennyk ◽  
...  

The process of non-reagent adjustment of the pH of a NaCl solution (0.5 g/L) of different acidity was investigated by the method of bipolar electrodialysis on a device operating according to the K-system (concentration). The experiments were carried out in the range pH = 2.0–12.0 with monopolar cation-exchange MK-40 (for alkaline solutions) or anion-exchange MA-40 (for acidic solutions) and bipolar MB-2 membranes. The regularities of the change in the pH of the solution on the current density, process productivity and energy consumption for the neutralization process have been investigated. Revealed: with different productivity of the apparatus (Q = 0.5–1.5 m3/h), in the range of pH 3.0–11.0, with an increase in the current density, a neutral pH value is achieved. It has been shown that at pH above 11.0 and below 3.0, even at high current densities (i > 20 A/m2), its value cannot be changed. This is due to the neutralization of the H+ or OH− ions generated by the bipolar membrane by water ions, which are formed as a result of the dissociation of water molecules at the border of the monopolar membrane and the solution under conditions when the value of current exceeds the limiting value.

2013 ◽  
Vol 78 (12) ◽  
pp. 2007-2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nemanja Danilovic ◽  
Ram Subbaraman ◽  
Dusan Strmcnik ◽  
Vojislav Stamenkovic ◽  
Nenad Markovic

Trends in the HER are studied on selected metals (M= Cu, Ag, Au, Pt, Ru, Ir, Ti) in acid and alkaline environments. We found that with the exception of Pt, Ir and Au, due to high coverage by spectator species on non-noble metal catalysts, experimentally established positions of Cu , Ag, Ru and Ti in the observed volcano relations are still uncertain. We also found that while in acidic solutions the M-Hupd binding energy most likely is controlling the activity trends, the trends in activity in alkaline solutions are controlled by a delicate balance between two descriptors: the M-Had interaction as well as the energetics required to dissociate water molecules. The importance of the second descriptor is confirmed by introducing bifunctional catalysts such as M modified by Ni(OH); e.g. while the latter serves to enhance catalytic decomposition of water, the metal sites are required for collecting and recombining the produced hydrogen intermediates.


2011 ◽  
Vol 399-401 ◽  
pp. 1272-1275
Author(s):  
Lu Feng ◽  
Ke Feng He ◽  
Wan Ping Chen

Nanostructured AgI/TiO2 photocatalysts exhibit highly efficient visible light photocatalytic activity. Though there have been extensive investigations on AgI/TiO2 photocatalysts, study on their stablity is still very limited. So in this paper, such a study is designed and conducted. AgI/TiO2 nanostructured photocatalysts were prepared and separately immersed in HCl solutions, DI water and NaOH solutions with pH value of 0, 4, 7, 10 and 14, respectively. X-ray diffraction and diffusive reflectance UV-vis spectroscopy analyses reveal that the immersion in acidic solutions led to the formation of AgCl and a blue shifting to 450nm for the absorption edge of AgI/TiO2, while the alkaline treatment had no significant effect on the composite structure of AgI/TiO2 or on the UV-vis absorption edge. Photocatalytic tests show that immersion in acidic solutions had more significant influence on AgI/TiO2 photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange (MO). At pH = 4, photocatalytic efficiency was dropped nearly 30%. At pH = 10, no significant change was observed. AgI/TiO2 nanostructured photocatalysts have thus been found to display a higher stability in alkaline solutions than in acidic solutions.


1995 ◽  
Vol 386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joong S. Jeon ◽  
Srini Raghavan

ABSTRACTElectrochemical polarization experiments were performed on Si wafers in ammoniacal solutions maintained at a pH in the range of 9.5 to 11.5. Anodic polarization of silicon yielded curves which are typical for materials that undergo passivation. The values of open circuit potential and passivation potential for p-type Si wafers were more anodic than for the n-type Si wafers. Corrosion current density of p-type Si wafers of low resistivity was lower than that of wafers of high resistivity. Corrosion current densities correlated well with surface roughness induced in alkaline solutions. Addition of surfactant or H2O2 to alkaline solutions reduced critical current density for passivation and corrosion current density.


2020 ◽  

<p>At this study, electrochemical oxidation of cefaclor antibiotic was investigated with new generation Sn/Sb/Ni-Ti anodes. Platinized titanium was used as cathode material. Chemical oxygen demand (COD), total organic carbon (TOC) and cefaclor (CEF) active substance parameters were used to evaluate the process efficiency. Salt (KCl) addition (mg L-1), pH value, current density (mA cm-2) and reaction time (minute) were the factors controlling the reactions. Kinetic evaluations were performed during the application of electrochemical oxidation processes to obtain pseudo-first degree kinetics. 750 mg L-1 KCl, pH 7 and 50 mA cm-2 current density were found as the optimum conditions at room temperature (25 °C). Thus, ≤ % 99 removal efficiencies were found for COD and TOC parameters after 60 min reaction and complete mineralization of CEF was occured in just 30 min at the optimum conditions. Consequently, Sn/Sb/Ni-Ti anodes were found very useful and successful for cefaclor oxidation and mineralization. The advantages of the processes are, complete mineralization at shorter reaction time with low current densities and there is no need to pH arrangement.</p>


Author(s):  
I-Fei Tsu ◽  
D.L. Kaiser ◽  
S.E. Babcock

A current theme in the study of the critical current density behavior of YBa2Cu3O7-δ (YBCO) grain boundaries is that their electromagnetic properties are heterogeneous on various length scales ranging from 10s of microns to ˜ 1 Å. Recently, combined electromagnetic and TEM studies on four flux-grown bicrystals have demonstrated a direct correlation between the length scale of the boundaries’ saw-tooth facet configurations and the apparent length scale of the electrical heterogeneity. In that work, enhanced critical current densities are observed at applied fields where the facet period is commensurate with the spacing of the Abrikosov flux vortices which must be pinned if higher critical current density values are recorded. To understand the microstructural origin of the flux pinning, the grain boundary topography and grain boundary dislocation (GBD) network structure of [001] tilt YBCO bicrystals were studied by TEM and HRTEM.


Author(s):  
M. R. McCartney ◽  
J. K. Weiss ◽  
David J. Smith

It is well-known that electron-beam irradiation within the electron microscope can induce a variety of surface reactions. In the particular case of maximally-valent transition-metal oxides (TMO), which are susceptible to electron-stimulated desorption (ESD) of oxygen, it is apparent that the final reduced product depends, amongst other things, upon the ionicity of the original oxide, the energy and current density of the incident electrons, and the residual microscope vacuum. For example, when TMO are irradiated in a high-resolution electron microscope (HREM) at current densities of 5-50 A/cm2, epitaxial layers of the monoxide phase are found. In contrast, when these oxides are exposed to the extreme current density probe of an EM equipped with a field emission gun (FEG), the irradiated area has been reported to develop either holes or regions almost completely depleted of oxygen. ’ In this paper, we describe the responses of three TMO (WO3, V2O5 and TiO2) when irradiated by the focussed probe of a Philips 400ST FEG TEM, also equipped with a Gatan 666 Parallel Electron Energy Loss Spectrometer (P-EELS). The multi-channel analyzer of the spectrometer was modified to take advantage of the extremely rapid acquisition capabilities of the P-EELS to obtain time-resolved spectra of the oxides during the irradiation period. After irradiation, the specimens were immediately removed to a JEM-4000EX HREM for imaging of the damaged regions.


Coatings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Ashutosh Sharma ◽  
Byungmin Ahn

Metallic and alloyed coatings are used widely in several decorative and technology-based applications. In this work, we selected Sn coatings plated on Cu substrates for joining applications. We employed two different plating baths for the fabrication of Sn and Ni coatings: acidic stannous sulfate for Sn and Watts bath for Ni layer. The plating current densities were varied from 100–500 mA/cm2. Further, the wear and friction behavior of the coatings were studied using a ball-on-disc apparatus under dry sliding conditions. The impact of current density was studied on the morphology, wear, and coefficient of friction (COF) of the resultant coatings. The wear experiments were done at various loads from 2–10 N. The sliding distance was fixed to 7 m. The wear loss was quantified in terms of the volume of the track geometry (width and depth of the tracks). The results indicate that current density has an important role in tailoring the composition and morphology of coatings, which affects the wear properties. At higher loads (8–10 N), Sn coatings on Ni/Cu had higher volume loss with a stable COF due to a mixed adhesive and oxidative type of wear mechanism.


2012 ◽  
Vol 302 (8) ◽  
pp. H1645-H1654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshihide Kashihara ◽  
Tsutomu Nakada ◽  
Hisashi Shimojo ◽  
Miwa Horiuchi-Hirose ◽  
Simmon Gomi ◽  
...  

L-type Ca2+ channels (LTCCs) play an essential role in the excitation-contraction coupling of ventricular myocytes. We previously found that t-tubular (TT) LTCC current density was halved by the activation of protein phosphatase (PP)1 and/or PP2A, whereas surface sarcolemmal (SS) LTCC current density was increased by the inhibition of PP1 and/or PP2A activity in failing ventricular myocytes of mice chronically treated with isoproterenol (ISO mice). In the present study, we examined the possible involvement of inhibitory heterotrimeric G proteins (Gi/o) in these abnormalities by chronically administrating pertussis toxin (PTX) to ISO mice (ISO + PTX mice). Compared with ISO mice, ISO + PTX mice exhibited significantly higher fractional shortening of the left ventricle. The expression level of Gαi2 proteins was not altered by the treatment of mice with ISO and/or PTX. ISO + PTX myocytes had normal TT and SS LTCC current densities because they had higher and lower availability and/or open probability of TT and SS LTCCs than ISO myocytes, respectively. A selective PKA inhibitor, H-89, did not affect LTCC current densities in ISO + PTX myocytes. A selective PP2A inhibitor, fostriecin, did not affect SS or TT current density in control or ISO + PTX myocytes but significantly increased TT but not SS LTCC current density in ISO myocytes. These results indicate that chronic receptor-mediated activation of Gi/o in vivo decreases basal TT LTCC activity by activating PP2A and increases basal SS LTCC activity by inhibiting PP1 without modulating PKA in heart failure.


Author(s):  
Cindy X. Su ◽  
Luyao Xu ◽  
Frank Y. Cheng

In this work, a real-time AC/DC signal data acquisition (DAQ) technique was developed, which is capable of separating the DC and AC potential components from the recorded total potential, providing mechanistic information about the steel corrosion in the presence of AC interference. It was found that the corrosion of the steel is enhanced by the applied AC current density from 0 to 400 A/m2. With the further increase to 600 A/m2 and 800 A/m2, the corrosion rate of the steel decreases, which is attributed to passivation of the steel at sufficiently high AC current densities, and a compact film is formed on the steel surface. Moreover, the derived mathematic relationships between AC potential and AC current density provides a potential alternative to determine AC current density on pipelines based on measurements of AC potential in the field.


1994 ◽  
Vol 369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steen Skaarup ◽  
L.M.W.K. Gunaratne ◽  
Keld West ◽  
Birgit Zachau-Christiansen

AbstractPolyaniline has been synthesized in propylene carbonate by galvanostatic electrochemical polymerization at current densities between 16 and 1000 μA/cm2. Earlier results for polypyrrole have shown that low and high current density films have different properties: The films synthesized at low current density have a higher conjugation length and a more regular structure. The corresponding effect in PANI has been investigated by cyclic voltammetry and UV/visible spectroscopy. Simultaneous measurement of cyclic voltammograms and the absorbtion of selected spectral lines is used because of the complex nature of the PANI system which involves several redox systems as well as forms differing in the degree of protonation and morphology.The main result is that the method of galvanostatic synthesis at low current densities (-16 μA/cm2) produces polyaniline polymers of different, more conjugated and more regular structure than those prepared at higher current densities. The standard method of in situ layer-by-layer polymerization of conducting polymers during cyclic voltammetry often results in uncontrolled and unmeasured current densities of 0.5-2 mA/cm2 which produces a film that probably has a less regular structure containing more deviations from ideality.


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