Planar and tubular perovskite-type membrane reactors for the partial oxidation of methane to syngas

Dense planar and tubular oxygen separation membranes of La_0.6Ca_0.4Fe_0.75Co_0.25O_3– were investigated as reactors for the partial oxidation (POX) of methane to syngas. Their permeation properties were measured in an air/argon pO₂ gradient as a function of temperature. At 900 °C, the oxygen flux through a 1.26-mm-thick membrane was 0.075 mol/cm²·s and through a 0.25-mm-thick tube, 0.24 mol/cm²·s.For the POX measurements, a catalyst was added to the membrane and methane was introduced on the argon side. This resulted in a gradual increase of the oxygen flux with increasing concentration of methane, reaching 2 mol/cm²·s at 900 °C with pure methane. For the planar reactor, the CO selectivity reached 99% and the CH₄ conversion 75% at 918 °C with pure methane. For the tubular reactor, the CO selectivity and CH₄ conversion were 83 and 99%, respectively, under the same conditions. After 1,400 h of operation in a tubular POX reactor, the membrane was examined revealing phase demixing and local decomposition.Presented at the OSSEP Workshop Ionic and Mixed Conductors: Methods and Processes, Aveiro, Portugal, 10–12 April 2003     

Synthesis,Crystal Structure Determination,and Physical Properties of Ag5IO6

The silver iodate(VII), Ag₅IO₆, was obtained by reacting a stoichiometric mixture of Ag₂O and KIO₃, at elevated oxygen pressure, adding a small portion of distilled water. The synthesis was done at 673 K and 270 MPa of oxygen pressure. The crystal structure was solved by direct methods based on single crystal diffraction data ( , Z = 6, a = 5.9366(1), c = 32.1471(6) Å, 323 independent reflections, R₁ = 2.31 %). According to conductivity measurements, Ag₅IO₆ is semiconducting with a specific resistance of 0.08 Ωcm at 300 K. The activation energy was determined as 7.4(1) meV in the temperature range of 220 – 300 K, and 4.3(1) meV in the temperature range of 90 – 180 K. The optical band gap for Ag₅IO₆ is 1.4 eV. Ag₅IO₆ is diamagnetic with a magnetic susceptibility of ?4.4×10^?4 emu/mol.     

纳米碳管电极上氧的电催化还原

以聚四氟乙烯为粘结剂制成了多壁纳米碳管（MWNT）电极.采用恒电位阶跃法和循环伏安法研究了MWNT电极在碱性溶液中的电化学行为，并对碱性溶液中溶解氧在该电极上的电化学还原行为进行了研究.实验结果表明： MWNT电极具有比石墨电极更高的孔隙率和电化学表面积；MWNT电极上O2还原成的反应为准可逆过程；在5～50 mV•s－1的扫描速率范围内，阴极峰电流与扫描速度成线性关系，表明MWNT电极上O2还原成的反应受吸附控制；对碱性溶液中的氧还原反应， MWNT比石墨具有更高的催化活性.     

Capillary electrophoretic studies of acid-base properties of sanguinarine and chelerythrine alkaloids

Capillary zone electrophoresis with UV detection was used for determination of dissociation constants of alkaloids sanguinarine and chelerythrine. Despite the limited solubility of the uncharged forms of the alkaloids resulting in insufficient analytical signal at higher pH the reliable dissociation constants were obtained when acidified samples containing low amount of the alkaloid were injected into the capillary. The precipitation of the alkaloid in the capillary induced by injecting sample of low pH into the background electrolyte of higher pH does not affect the mobility of the alkaloid if its concentration injected exceeds the solubility only to a small extent. Dissociation constants (pK(R+)) of sanguinarine and chelerythrine calculated to 8.3 +/- 0.1 and 9.2 +/- 0.1, respectively, are relevant to Good buffers of ionic strength of 30 mM.     

Thermogravimetric study on perovskite-like oxygen permeation ceramic membranes

The oxygen permeation properties of mixed-conducting ceramics SrFeCo_0.5O_3−δ (SFCO), Ba_0.5Sr_0.5Co_0.8Fe_0.2O_3−δ (BSCFO), La_0.2Sr_0.8Co_0.8Fe_0.2O_3−δ (LSCFO) and Ba_0.95Ca_0.05Co_0.8Fe_0.2O_3−δ (BCCFO) were studied by thermogravimetric method in the temperature range 600–900 °C. The results show that the oxygen adsorption rate constants k_a of all material are larger than oxygen desorption rate constants k_d and both k_a and k_d are not strongly dependent on temperature in the studied temperature range. The oxygen vacancy contents δ(N₂) and δ(O₂) in nitrogen and oxygen and their difference Δδ = δ(N₂) − δ(O₂) play an important role in determining the temperature behavior of oxygen permeation flux J_O2.     

Effect of film thickness on the electro-reduction of molecular oxygen on electropolymerized cobalt tetra-aminophthalocyanine films

We studied the electrocatalytic activity of cobalt tetra-aminophthalocyanine (CoTAPc) for the reduction of molecular oxygen (O₂) on adsorbed monomeric and on electropolymerized films of different thicknesses on glassy carbon (GC) electrode. The polymeric films, denoted poly-CoTAPc, were first characterized by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and it appears that the types of phenomena revealed to be occurring depend less on the film thickness in basic than in acid media. For O₂ reduction, the results showed that poly-CoTAPc is more active than the monomeric CoTAPc adsorbed on GC. Indeed, rotating ring-disk electrode data showed that polymeric CoTAPc promotes the four-electron reduction of O₂ to water in parallel to a two-electron reduction to give peroxide. On monomeric and thin films of poly-CoTAPc, a two-electron reduction mechanism predominates. In basic media the activity increases very slightly with thickness, whereas in acid media this increase is more pronounced. This parallels the observed behavior revealed by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.     

Synthesis, crystal structure, and magnetic properties of the manganate La2Ca2MnO6(O2) related to the hexagonal perovskite-type structure

The compound La₂Ca₂MnO₆(O₂) has been synthesized from La₂Ca₂MnO₇ heated at 1123 K under high pressure (4 GPa) with KClO₃ as oxygen source. The crystal structure has been refined from X-ray powder data in the space group. The unit-cell parameters are a=5.6335(2) Å and c=17.4879(8) Å. Perpendicular to the c-axis, the structure is built up by the periodic stacking of two close packed [LaO₃] layers separated by a layer of composition [Ca₂O₂] containing (O₂)²⁻ peroxide ions. This oxide belongs to the family of compounds formulated as [A′₂O_2−δ][A_nB_n−1O_3n] for n=2 and δ=0. It is the first member of the series where the thickness of the perovskite slab corresponds to one [BO₆] (B=Mn) octahedron. The structural relationships with La₂Ca₂MnO₇ are discussed and the magnetic properties show that in both phases manganese is tetravalent.     

甲基丙烯酸八氟戊酯乙烯基咪唑共聚物的合成及与钴卟啉复合物的氧结合性能

研究了甲基丙烯酸八氟戊酯单体及其与乙烯基咪唑共聚物的合成与表征 ,以及该共聚物与氧载体钴卟啉配位复合物的氧结合性能 .共聚物分子量和乙烯基咪唑含量分别由GPC和元素分析方法测定 ,结果为5 0× 10 4 和 2 5mol % .共聚物中的咪唑基与钴卟啉在溶液中配位 ,复合物具有快速、可逆的氧结合特性 .溶剂对复合物的氧结合性能影响较大 ,复合物在四氢呋喃中的氧结合亲合力大于在N ,N 二甲基甲酰胺中的亲合力     

Physicochemical characterization of phosphinic pseudopeptides by capillary zone electrophoresis in highly acidic background electrolytes

Phosphinic pseudopeptides (i.e., peptide isosteres with one peptide bond replaced by a phosphinic acid moiety) were analyzed and physicochemically characterized by capillary zone electrophoresis in the pH range of 1.1-3.2, employing phosphoric, phosphinic, oxalic and dichloroacetic acids as background electrolyte (BGE) constituents. The acid dissociation constant (pK(a)) of phosphinate group in phosphinic pseudopeptides and ionic mobilities of these analytes were determined from the pH dependence of their effective electrophoretic mobilities corrected to standard temperature and constant ionic strength of the BGEs. It was shown that these corrections are necessary whenever precise mobility data at very low pH are to be determined. Additionally, it was found that the ionic mobilities of the phosphinic pseudopeptides and pK(a) of their phosphinate group are affected by the BGE constituent used. The variability of migration behavior of the pseudopeptides can be attributed to their ion-pairing formation with the BGE components.     

Preparation of epitaxial La0.6Ca0.4Mn1−xFexO3 (x = 0, 0.2) thin films: Variation of the oxygen content

Perovskite thin films with a nominal composition of La_0.6Ca_0.4Mn_1−xFe_xO₃ (x = 0, 0.2) were deposited by pulsed reactive crossed beam laser ablation. The film properties, such as electrical conductivity and magnetoresistance are studied as a function of the oxygen content and substrate type. The oxygen content of the thin films was determined by Rutherford Backscattering and controlled by varying the background gas pressure, pressure of the gas pulse and by using alternatively O₂ and N₂O as the gas pulse.

LaAlO₃ and SrTiO₃ were used as substrates at deposition temperature of 650 °C. The grown films were analyzed by X-ray diffraction in order to optimize the growth conditions, i.e. to obtain epitaxial thin films. Thin films doped with 20% Fe were grown under the same experimental conditions as the undoped LCMO films and the effect of the doping on the structural and transport properties of the thin films has been investigated.

The temperature of the metal–insulator transition was measured as a function of the oxygen content and substrate type.