Temperature-controlled 'breathing' of carbon dioxide bubbles

We report a microfluidic (MF) approach to studies of temperature mediated carbon dioxide (CO(2)) transfer between the gas and the liquid phases. Micrometre-diameter CO(2) bubbles with a narrow size distribution were generated in an aqueous or organic liquid and subsequently were subjected to temperature changes in the downstream channel. In response to the cooling-heating-cooling cycle the bubbles underwent corresponding contraction-expansion-contraction transitions, which we term 'bubble breathing'. We examined temperature-controlled dissolution of CO(2) in four exemplary liquid systems: deionized water, a 0.7 M aqueous solution of NaCl, ocean water extracted from Bermuda coastal waters, and dimethyl ether of poly(ethylene glycol), a solvent used in industry for absorption of CO(2). The MF approach can be extended to studies of other gases with a distinct, temperature-dependent solubility in liquids.     

Thermal conductivity modeling of nanofluids with ZnO particles by using approaches based on artificial neural network and MARS

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Nanofluids are attractive alternatives for the current heat transfer fluids due to their remarkably higher thermal conductivity which leads to the...     

Heterocyclic Synthesis with Enamines: Convenient Syntheses of Polyfunctionally Substituted Pyrazole,Pyridine, Pyrimidine and Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimrdine Derivatives

Facile syntheses of pyrazole, pyridine, pyrimidine and pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine derivatives have been achieved by the reaction of β-enamino nitrile 2a with hydrazines, phenyl isothiocyanate, thiourea and active methylene reagents. The β-enamino ketone 2e with the same reagents affords 3,5-dimethyl heterocyclic ring systems.     

Some stochastic $${\varvec{}}$$-divergences in information theory

In this paper, we introduce the concept of stochastic HH-divergences based on convex stochastic processes. As an application, we propose some inequalities related to stochastic HH-divergences for convex stochastic processes. Our result extends HH-divergence in the class of f-divergence to the class of convex stochastic processes.     

Application of copper oxide–thermal oil (CuO-HTO) nanofluid on convective heat transfer enhancement in inclined circular tube

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The influence of using copper oxide–thermal oil on convective heat transfer and pressure drop in an upward flow in an inclined smooth tube is...     

Numerical investigation of mixed convection heat transfer of a nanofluid in a circular enclosure with a rotating inner cylinder

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - In the present paper, mixed convection heat transfer of water–Al2O3 nanofluid in the space between two cylinders is investigated numerically. The...     

Magnetic solid-phase extraction of warfarin and gemfibrozil in biological samples using polydopamine-coated magnetic nanoparticles via core-shell nanostructure

Herein, polydopamine-coated Fe₃O₄ spheres were synthesized using a very simple, easy, cost-effective, efficient, and fast method. First, magnetic nanoparticles (Fe₃O₄) were synthesized and were followed by accommodating polydopamine on the surface of the prepared Fe₃O₄. The prepared polydopamine-coated Fe₃O₄ spheres were utilized as a sorbent in magnetic solid phase extraction of gemfibrozil and warfarin (as the model analytes). The extracted model analytes were desorbed by a suitable organic solvent and were analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography. Under optimized condition, the linearity of the method was in the range of 0.1–200.0 μg/L for the selected analytes in water. The limits of detection were calculated to be in the range of 0.026–0.055 μg/L for warfarin and gemfibrozil, respectively. The limits of quantification were calculated to be in the range of 0.089–0.185 μg/L. The inter-day and intra-day relative standard deviations were determined to be in the range of 1.4%–3.3% in three concentrations in order to calculate the method precision. Furthermore, the enrichment factors were found to be 78 and 81 for warfarin and gemfibrozil, respectively. Moreover, the calculated absolute recoveries were between 78% and 81%. The obtained recoveries indicated that the method was useful and applicable in complicated real samples.     

Theoretical modeling for thermophysical properties of cellulose: pressure/volume/temperature data

Thermo-compression process—compression of pure cellulose under high temperatures and pressures—is a recent method to produce biodegradable materials. For such processes, experimental measurements and study of properties and behavior of cellulose are difficult to carry out. To overcome these difficulties, a complete pressure–volume–temperature investigation is needed as carried out in this work. To develop a predictive thermodynamic PVT model of cellulose theoretically, the modified Sanchez and Lacombe equation of state together with the implementation of the Hoftyzer and van Krevelen group contribution method and the Boudouris modification to the Constantinou and Gani’s group contribution method were coupled to the Compressible Regular Solution theory. The developed method is a pure predictive model and to examine the accuracy of theoretically calculated PVT data by the model, some available PVT data of cellulose at temperatures from 25 to 180 °C and pressures from 19.6 to 196 MPa (219 data points) were collected from literature. The comparisons were made and the agreement between the calculations and the experimental data were acceptable with a Cumulative Absolute Relative Deviation of 0.04 %. Consequently, the model can be used for prediction of thermodynamic properties of cellulose and cellulose-containing mixtures.     

Synthesis and Characterization of a Fluorescent Water-Borne Polyurethane Based on a Novel Naphthalimide Dye

A waterborne-polyurethane (WPU) dye, based on the fluorescent dye 4-diamino propane-N-allyl-1,8- naphthalimide (WPU-DAN), was synthesized by attaching 4-diamino propane-N-allyl-1,8- naphthalimide (DAN) onto both ends of the polyurethane (PU) chains according to a prepolymer?ionomer process. The synthetic process was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and UV-visible absorption. The glass transition temperature, molecular weight and average particle sizes were measured. The glass transition temperatures of WPU and WPU-DAN were 46.6 and 49.8°C, respectively. In addition, the particle size distributions of WPU-DAN and WPU were 140 and 134 nm, respectively. The thermal behaviour of WPU-DAN showed improvement compared to WPU. The fluorescence intensity of WPU-DAN was enhanced more than DAN due to the naphthalimide groups attached to the chains, and the fluorescence intensity of WPU-DAN and DAN were increased by increasing temperature. Moreover, the fluorescence intensity of WPU-DAN emulsion was stable during 30 days and no loss of fluorescence intensity occurred for these days.     

Efficient RuIII-catalyzed synthesis of 9-aryl-9H-xanthene-3,6-diols as precursors to fluorones

Efficient condensation of resorcinol and various aromatic aldehydes in the presence of RuCl₃nH₂O as a homogeneous catalyst under reflux conditions was investigated.It was found that a very simple method afforded good to excellent yields of the desired products.