高性能甲烷催化燃烧催化剂的制备及其在天然气催化燃烧热水器上的应用

 以镧改性的Ce-Zr-O固溶体储氧材料和钇、锆改性的氧化铝(YSZ-Al2O3)的混合物为载体,浸渍活性组分Co3O4+Fe2O3+MnO2,以蜂窝状堇青石陶瓷材料为基体,制备了甲烷催化燃烧催化剂,考察了该催化剂老化前后的活性,并将其用于强鼓式家用天然气催化燃烧热水器. 结果表明,该催化剂具有很高的活性和稳定性. 使用此催化剂的天然气催化燃烧热水器的热效率达到101.1%, 同时烟气中CO和NOx污染物的排放浓度分别为0.014%和0.003%, 该热水器具有高效节能和环境友好双重优点.     

Al2O3负载Pt催化剂的合成及其甲醇低温催化燃烧性能研究

采用一步合成法制备了Al₂O₃负载Pt催化剂Pt/Al₂O₃,以甲醇催化燃烧作为目标反应研究了其催化性能,考察了还原剂浓度、表面活性剂用量、表面活性剂浓度和煅烧温度对Pt/Al₂O₃甲醇低温催化燃烧性能的影响。结果表明,当还原剂浓度为0.1 mol/L、表面活性剂(CTAB)用量为8.53 g/g_cat.、表面活性剂浓度为0.1 mol/L、煅烧温度为600℃时,所得催化剂的活性最高,25℃下甲醇催化燃烧的转化率达到52%。而改进一步合成法制备的负载型催化剂Pt/Al₂O₃具有更高的甲醇催化燃烧活性,25℃下甲醇催化燃烧的转化率为84%。     

钙钛矿SrFe1-xMnxO3催化剂:共沉淀法制备及催化甲烷燃烧的性能

通过共沉淀法制备了SrFe1-xMnxO3钙钛矿催化剂。用XRD、TPR和TG-DSC技术对催化剂进行了物理性能表征,以甲烷催化燃烧为目标反应表征其催化性能,通过BET模型计算了其比表面积,通过阿伦尼乌斯方程计算了反应的表观活化能。结果表明用共沉淀法制备钙钛矿催化剂经700℃焙烧4 h后可以形成完整的钙钛矿晶型,样品都具有高的催化性能,但随着锰离子的掺杂,催化剂活性明显提高,其中SrMnO3催化剂具有较高甲烷催化燃烧活性,起燃温度T10%为435℃,至457℃甲烷完全转化。     

制备方法对锰Mn掺杂钾六铝酸盐催化剂催化甲烷燃烧性能的影响

以甲烷催化燃烧为目标反应,通过共沉淀法、溶胶凝胶法和反相微乳液法制备了Mn掺杂六铝酸盐催化剂,用XRD和TG-DTA技术对催化剂进行了物理性能表征,通过BET模型计算了其比表面积。结果说明3种方法所制备催化剂经1 200℃焙烧4h后均可以形成完整的六铝酸盐晶型,同时都具有高的催化性能和高温稳定性,其中反相微乳液法制备的K2MnAl11O19催化剂具有较高的比表面积和甲烷催化燃烧活性,起燃温度T10%为458℃,至676℃甲烷完全转化。     

堇青石负载La-Mn-O复合氧化物催化剂的甲苯催化燃烧性能

以堇青石蜂窝陶瓷为载体,以La2O3,Mn(NO3)2为基本原料,掺杂一些稀土等非贵重金属元素,采用浸渍法制备了系列负载La-Mn-O复合氧化物催化剂.考察了焙烧温度等对甲苯催化燃烧性能的影响,并对催化剂进行了XRD,TPR表征.结果表明,800 ℃焙烧的LaMn/Cord催化剂具有较高的甲苯催化燃烧性能;Ce取代催化剂中部分La后能改善催化剂的氧化活性,当Ce∶La=1∶1(摩尔比)时催化性能最佳,在260 ℃的反应温度下甲苯转化率达到90%以上.     

柠檬酸络合浸渍法制备的Ag-Mn/γ-Al_2O_3-TiO_2催化剂用于丙烷催化燃烧

采用不同浸渍方法制备了系列Ag-Mn/γ-Al_2O_3-TiO_2催化剂,利用BET、XRD、TEM、XPS和H_2-TPR等技术对催化剂进行了表征,通过丙烷催化燃烧反应考察了催化性能。结果表明,与常规浸渍法相比,柠檬酸络合浸渍法促进了催化剂表面Ag与Mn颗粒的分散及加强了Ag与Mn之间的相互作用,从而提高了活性氧物种的相对含量和催化剂的低温还原性能,进而促进丙烷催化燃烧活性的提升。其中,络合浸渍法制备的Ag_1Mn_3/γ-Al_2O_3-TiO_2催化剂在263℃时丙烷转化率即可达90%。     

草酸盐凝胶共沉淀法制备Ni-Ce-O甲烷催化燃烧催化剂

 采用草酸盐凝胶共沉淀法制备了系列Ni-Ce-O复合氧化物催化剂,考察了制备方法及催化剂组成对其催化甲烷燃烧性能的影响. 结果表明,草酸盐凝胶共沉淀法制备的Ni-Ce-O催化剂上甲烷的催化燃烧活性明显高于常规方法制备的Ni-Ce-O催化剂; Ni-Ce-O催化剂的组成显著影响其催化性能. 当镍/铈比值为4时,在406 ℃时即可使50%甲烷转化. Ni-Ce-O复合氧化物中NiO的晶格微应变是影响其催化甲烷燃烧性能的重要因素.     

碳微球为模板制备LaCoxFe1-xO3催化剂及其催化甲烷燃烧性能研究

以水热法合成的碳微球为模板,制备LaCo_xFe_(1-x)O_3(x=0.1,0.2,0.3,0.6,0.9)催化剂。采用XRD、BET、H2-TPR和SEM等手段对其进行物理性能研究,并对其进行催化甲烷燃烧性能研究。结果表明,以碳微球为模板掺杂不同比例Co2+,经过400℃和700℃两次焙烧,可形成完整的钙钛矿晶型。随着Co~(2+)掺杂量增加,催化剂的比表面积逐渐增加;Co~(2+)掺杂量不同,所制备催化剂的结构和活性也不同,其中,LaCo_(0.2)Fe_(0.8)O_3催化甲烷燃烧活性最好,起燃温度T10%为448℃,完全转化温度T90%为640℃。     

在钴、锰负载型催化剂上甲烷的催化氧化

甲烷的低温催化燃烧不仅可以提高能源的利用率 ,还能降低燃烧过程中氮氧化物的排放 ,从而降低大气污染。Ｐｄ催化剂对于甲烷的完全氧化活性很高 ,但其价格昂贵[1] ,并且在水蒸气中的活性受到一定的抑制[2 ] 。故开发研究用非贵金属催化剂进行甲烷的催化氧化问题受到了国内外研究者的极大关注[3～ 5] 。最近 ,李振花等曾报道在 10 %Ｐｄ ＺｒＯ2 催化剂上 ,甲烷完全氧化活性最高 ,他们还发现Ｐｄ Ｃｏ ＺｒＯ2 负载型双金属催化剂也具有较好的反应活性 ,但他们未报道水蒸气的影响[6] 。本文研究了Ｃｏ、Ｍｎ、Ｆｅ、Ｎｉ等非贵金属氧化物负载…     

镧钴镍复合氧化物催化剂的制备及催化甲烷燃烧活性研究

采用共沉淀法制备LaNi_(1-x)Co_xO_3系列催化剂(x=0,0.2,0.4,0.6,0.8,1.0),研究B位离子Co的掺杂对钙钛矿LaNiO_3催化甲烷燃烧性能的影响。通过X射线衍射、比表面积测定、程序升温还原、扫描电镜、热重分析等对催化剂的结构和性能进行考察。以催化甲烷燃烧为目标,考察了催化剂的性能。研究结果表明,Co离子的掺杂会改变钙钛矿的晶型结构,改善催化活性,当x=0.8时,LaNi_(0.2)Co_(0.8)O_3的催化甲烷燃烧活性最高,其比表面积为22.4 m~2·g~(-1),T_(10%)(起燃温度)为475℃,T_(90%)(完全转化温度)为610℃。     

溶剂化的热力学集团展开理论

把二元溶液的过剩内能（excess energy）分成溶剂-溶剂、溶剂-溶质及溶质-溶质相互作用部分。利用集团展开方法给出了二元溶液在正则系综的配分函数的表达式,利用该表达式得到了溶质的偏摩尔内能(partial molar energy)和偏摩尔熵(partial molar entropy)的表达式。在无限稀溶液情形,过剩偏摩尔内能的溶剂-溶剂部分又称重组织内能（reorganization energy）,它反映了溶质存在时对其周围溶剂分子之间的相互作用能的影响。研究表明,在溶质的粒子数密度相对较大时,溶质分子之间的相互作用将影响过剩偏摩尔内能的溶剂-溶剂部分,对于稀溶液,过剩偏摩尔内能的溶剂-溶剂部分与溶质的摩尔分数成线性关系。对低密度二元溶液,溶质的过剩偏摩尔内能和过剩偏摩尔熵也与溶质的摩尔分数成线性关系。     

Wetting for self-healing and electrowetting for additive manufacturing

Advanced additive manufacturing actively widens its tool box of wettability-related phenomena to be used in production of new items. Novel self-healing engineering materials incorporate vascular networks with two types of nanochannels: the one containing a resin monomer, whereas another one — a curing agent. If such nanocomposites are damaged locally, both types of channels are locally broken, and they release resin monomer and curing agent droplets. These droplets spread by wettability over the nanotextured matrix, touch each other, and coalesce, which triggers polymerization reaction and crack stitching. Wettability-facilitated droplet spreading is accompanied by liquid imbibition in the pores in the nanofiber network. Such process peculiarities are in focus in the present review. An additional process relevant in direct writing and 3D printing is electrowetting (EW). It stems from the change in the contact angle in response to the electric polarization of dielectric substrates. EW allows movement of droplets on horizontal, vertical, and inverse surfaces, which can significantly facilitate the existing direct writing and 3D printing technologies. Accordingly, EW is also in focus in the present review.     

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Polymeric Lids for Microcontainers for Oral Protein Delivery

Oral delivery of proteins and peptides is one of the main challenges in pharmaceutical drug development. Microdevices have the possibility to protect the therapeutics until release is desired, avoiding losses by degradation. One type of microdevice is polymeric microcontainers. In this study, lysozyme is chosen as model protein and loaded into microcontainers with the permeation enhancer sodium decanoate (C10). The loaded microcontainers are sealed and functionalized by applying polymeric lids onto the cavity of the devices. The first lid is poly(lactic‐co‐glycolic) acid (PLGA) and on top of this either polyethylene glycol (PEG) or chitosan is applied (PLGA+PEG or PLGA+chitosan, respectively). The functionalization is evaluated in vitro for morphology, drug release, and mucoadhesive properties. These are coupled with in vitro and ex vivo studies using Caco‐2 cells, Caco‐2/HT29‐MTX‐E12 co‐cultures, and porcine intestinal tissue. PLGA+chitosan shows slower release compared to PLGA+PEG or only PLGA in buffer and the transport of lysozyme across cell cultures is not enhanced compared to the bulk powder. Microcontainers coated with chitosan or PEG demonstrate a three times stronger adhesion during ex vivo mucoadhesion studies compared to samples without coatings. Altogether, functionalized microcontainers with mucoadhesive properties and tunable release for oral protein delivery are developed and characterized.     

Bump-hunting for the proficiency tester--searching for multimodality

Kernel density estimation is a method for producing a smooth density approximation to a dataset and avoiding some of the problems associated with histograms. If it is used with a degree of smoothing determined by a fitness for purpose criterion, it can be applied to proficiency test data in order to test for multimodality in the z-scores. The bootstrap is an essential additional technique to determine how rugged the initially estimated kernel density is: the random resampling of the data in the bootstrap simulates a complete blind repeat of the proficiency test. In addition, useful estimates of the standard error of a mode can be thus obtained. It is suggested that a mode and its standard error can be used as an assigned value and its standard uncertainty.     

Advances for proficiency testing for genetic laboratory science

Nucleic acid based clinical genetic testing has undergone explosive growth in recent years due in large part to the human genome project. Characterization of the human genome has led to a molecular understanding of the pathogenesis of many human diseases, and ultimately to clinical molecular tests becoming routinely used to diagnose a wide diversity of diseases. This rapid growth in clinical molecular genetic testing coupled with the complexity of the analytical procedures underscores the necessity for proficiency testing (i.e. external quality assessment) to allow laboratories offering such services the ability to evaluate their analytical procedures via inter-laboratory comparisons. The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) in partnership with the College of American Pathologists (CAP) have been offering proficiency testing for clinical molecular genetics laboratories since 1995, and presently have more than 230 laboratories from 11 countries enrolled in this program. This paper describes the evolution of this program and several challenges encountered in the delivery of a proficiency testing program for laboratories offering clinical molecular genetic services. Received: 13 April 2002 Accepted: 18 July 2002     

A methodology for choosing parameters for ESR readout of alanine dosimeters for radiotherapy

Spectrometer settings for ESR readout of alanine dosimeters for radiotherapy have been investigated. Several ESR parameters were studied and determined. The main reason for this work is to choose the suitable parameters to increase signal-to-noise ratio and to reduce the uncertainty on ESR readout, which is one of the main components of uncertainty of alanine/ESR dosimetry system for radiotherapy. The new spectrometer settings have been applied for ESR readout of alanine dosimeters irradiated from 1 to 10 Gy. A higher signal-to-noise ratio has been achieved compared to our old spectrometer settings. The extended uncertainty (k=2) has been evaluated in the dose range 2–10 Gy (maximum uncertainty of 4.9% for 2 Gy, while minimum uncertainty of 1.4% for 10 Gy), which implies that the alanine/ESR dosimetry system can be applied to radiotherapy dose level that needs a global accuracy of 5%.