Sulfation of CuO,Fe2O3, MnO2, and NiO with (NH4)2SO4

An attempt has been made to calculate the free energy values for possible reactions utilising the available thermodynamic data in order to study the sulfation of CuO, Fe₂O₃, MnO₂ and NiO with (NH₄SO₄, and further trials have been made to determine the exact reaction through differential thermal analysis. There is no real correlation between the theoretical value of ΔH° and that calculated from the DTA peak, which may be due to some uncertainty in the thermodynamic values and the possibility of some side reactions.     

Oxidation of selected sugars with Mn(III)

Glucose, fructose, xylose, arabinose, and sucrose have been determined titrimetrically using manganese(III) sulfate as an oxidant. On reaction in the dark, glucose consumes 5, fructose 7, xylose and arabinose 6 each, and sucrose after hydrolysis 12 equivalents of Mn(III) per mole, respectively. Sucrose has also been estimated following other methods and the results have been compared. Two leaf sample extracts are analyzed for the determination of reducing sugar and total reducing matter and the results are compared with those obtained by the other method.     

Separation of Bulk Carbon Dioxide-Hydrogen Mixtures by Selective Surface Flow Membrane

The separation performance of carbon dioxide-hydrogen mixtures by a nanoporous carbon membrane called selective surface flow membrane is described. The membrane selectively permeates CO2 from H2 and a H2 enriched gas is produced at the feed gas pressure. Extensive experimental data for the separation using feed gas pressures from 0.24 to 1.13 MPa and CO2 compositions from 5 to 75 (mol%) in H2 are reported. The data can be empirically correlated using a simple equation with a single adjustable-parameter. The adjustable parameter is found to be a linear function of the feed gas CO2 partial pressure.The membrane separates CO2-H2 mixture very efficiently even at a low total feed gas pressure (0.4 MPa). The membrane area required for a given separation decreases drastically with increasing feed gas pressure in the range of 0.24–0.92 MPa and then it becomes insensitive to the feed gas pressure.     

Heat of Adsorption of Pure Sulfur Hexafluoride on Micro-Mesoporous Adsorbents

The isotherms and the isosteric heats of adsorption of pure SF₆ were measured on two microporous zeolites (NaX and Silicalite), one mesoporous alumina, and two activated carbons (BPL and PCB) at 305 K. The adsorption isotherms were Type I by Brunauer classification. The PCB carbon adsorbed SF₆ most strongly and the alumina adsorbed SF₆ most weakly. The adsorption of SF₆ on the other three materials were comparable in the low pressure region despite their drastic differences in the physicochemical properties. The heat of adsorption of SF₆ on the silicalite and the alumina remained practically constant over a large range of coverage. The heat of adsorption of SF₆ increased with increasing adsorbate loading on the NaX zeolite in the high coverage region. The heat of adsorption of SF₆ on the activated carbons decreased with increasing adsorbate loading before leveling off in the high coverage region.     

Chemisorption of carbon dioxide on potassium-carbonate-promoted hydrotalcite

New equilibrium and column dynamic data for chemisorption of carbon dioxide from inert nitrogen at 400 and 520 degrees C were measured on a sample of potassium-carbonate-promoted hydrotalcite, which was a reversible chemisorbent for CO(2). The equilibrium chemisorption isotherms were Langmuirian in the low-pressure region (p(CO(2)) < 0.2 atm) with a large gas-solid interaction parameter. The isotherms deviated from Langmuirian behavior in the higher pressure region. A new analytical model that simultaneously accounted for Langmuirian chemisorption of CO(2) on the adsorbent surface and additional reaction between the gaseous and sorbed CO(2) molecules was proposed to describe the measured equilibrium data. The model was also capable of describing the unique loading dependence of the isosteric heat of chemisorption of CO(2) reported in the literature. The column breakthrough curves for CO(2) sorption from inert N(2) on the chemisorbent could be described by the linear driving force (LDF) model in conjunction with the new sorption isotherm. The CO(2) mass-transfer coefficients were (i) independent of feed gas CO(2) concentration in the range of the data at a given temperature and (ii) a weak function of temperature. The ratio of the mass-transfer zone length to the column length was very low due to highly favorable CO(2) sorption equilibrium.