HPLC and GC Methods for Determination of Lubricants and Their Evaluation in Analysis of Real Samples of Polyethylene

High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and gas chromatography (GC) are introduced for analysis of polymer lubricants (stearamide, oleamide and erucamide). In the HPLC method, a reverse phase octadecylsilane (ODS) column along with acetonitrile/methanol (60:40) as a mobile phase were used. Detection of analytes was performed by a UV detector at 202 nm. The analysis time was less than 8 min. In the GC method, polar capillary column and flame ionization detector (FID) were used for separations and detection, respectively. The analysis time by GC was longer than HPLC and was about 30 min. Limits of detection, linear range and repeatability of both methods are similar, but determination of oleamide in real samples by HPLC method is difficult due to complexity of the initial part of HPLC chromatogram in polyethylene samples. That problem is not observed in the GC method. Detection limits in both methods for all analytes are lower than 0.003% which are much lower than the amount of lubricants in commercial polymers (0.05–0.2%).     

Purification of L-Lysine in Simulated Moving Bed and Fixed-Bed Chromatography

 L-Lysine was produced by a microbial process utilizing a Corynebacterium glutamicum (ATCC 21799) strain. L-Lysine was purified from the cultivated medium by fixed-bed and simulated moving bed （SMB） chromatography. The separation conditions including pH, eluent concentration and Lys+ and Lys2+ adsorption isotherms were studied in batch adsorption. The column capacity, eluent flow rate and eluent concentration have been studied in fixed-bed chromatography. Maximum purification rate of lysine was obtained as 0.066 g/(g·h) (per gram resin and per hour) at an eluent flow rate of 10 mL/min in fixed-bed chromatography. The results obtained from SMB were 0.11 g/(g·h) for L-lysine purification rate and 96% for L-lysine recovery.     

Existence,uniqueness and stability of solutions for a class of nonlinear integral equations under generalized Lipschitz condition

In this paper, we prove the existence, uniqueness and the stability of solutions for some nonlinear functional-integral equations by using generalized Lipschitz condition. We prove a fixed point theorem to obtain the mentioned aims in Banach space X:= C([a, b],R). As application we study some Volterra integral equations with linear, nonlinear and singular kernel.     

Bochner algebras and their compact multipliers

Let \mathfrakA\mathfrak{A} be a normed algebra with identity, Ω be a locally compact Hausdorf space and λ be a positive Radon measure on Ω with supp(λ) = Ω. In this paper, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for L ¹(Ω, \mathfrakA\mathfrak{A}) to be an algebra with pointwise multiplication. Under this condition, we then characterize compact and weakly compact left multipliers on L ¹(Ω, \mathfrakA\mathfrak{A}).     

Adsorption Studies of Radionuclides and Toxic Metal Ions on a Modified Mesoporous Lanthanum(III) Silicate

A new adsorbent, modified mesoporous lanthanum(III) silicate, has been prepared with various molar ratios of Si/La (10, 20, 40, 80) and cethyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as structure directing agent. XRD, nitrogen sorption, SEM, IR, thermogravimetry and sorption of radionuclides and toxic metal ions have been studied. The results show that adsorption amount of some element such as Pb(II) and Th(IV) has been increased significantly by incorporation of lanthanum ions in the framework of adsorbent. Separation of Co(II)‐Th(IV), Co(II)‐U(VI) and Mo(VI)‐U(VI) has been developed on columns of this adsorbent.     

Electrochemical Sensing Platform Based on Graphene Oxide-chitosan for Simultaneous Determination of some Antihypertensive Drugs

The development of selective and simple methods for the determination of different analytes is of great interest. This is the first time to show the applicability of graphene oxide-chitosan (GO-CS) nanocomposite for designing an electrochemical nanosensor for determination of Amlodipine, Valsartan, and Hydrochlorothiazide, simultaneously. Differential pulse voltammetrics current of AML, HCT, and VAL increased linearly in the ranges of 0.1–110, 0.1–110, and 1–230 μM with LOD of 5.5×10⁻², 3.5×10⁻² and 8.6×10⁻² μM, respectively. Finally, GO-CS/GCE was used for the detection of these drugs in commercial tablets and compared with the reference method (HPLC).     

Guanidine Hydrochloride: A Highly Efficient Organocatalyst for the Synthesis of 12‐Aryl‐8,9,10,12‐tetrahydrobenzo[a]xanthene‐11‐ones Under Solvent‐Free Conditions

A new green protocol has been developed for the synthesis of 12‐aryl‐8,9,10,12‐tetrahydrobenzo[a]xanthen‐11‐ones using guanidine hydrochloride as an organocatalyst under solvent‐free conditions. Operational simplicity, mild reaction conditions, enhanced rates, high isolated yields of the pure products, and purification of products by nonchromatographic methods are significant advantages of the protocol presented here.     

Description of Closed Maximal Ideals in Topological Algebras of Continuous Vector-Valued Functions

Let X be a completely regular Hausdorff space, A be a unital locally convex algebra with jointly continuous multiplication and C(X,A) be the algebra of all continuous A-valued functions on X equipped with the topology of \({\mathcal{K}(X)}\) -convergence. Moreover, let \({\mathfrak{M}_{\ell}(A)}\) and \({\mathfrak{M}(A)}\) denote the set of all closed maximal left and two-sided ideals in A, respectively. In this note, we describe all closed maximal left and two-sided ideals in C(X,A) and show that there exist bijections from \({\mathfrak{M}_{\ell}(C(X, A))}\) onto \({X \times \mathfrak{M}_{\ell}(A)}\) and \({\mathfrak{M}(C(X, A))}\) onto \({X \times \mathfrak{M}(A)}\) . We also present new characterizations of closed maximal ideals in C(X, A) when A is a unital commutative locally convex Gelfand–Mazur algebra with jointly continuous multiplication.     

A numerical solution of a two-dimensional IHCP

In this paper, we will first study the existence and uniqueness of the solution of a two-dimensional inverse heat conduction problem (IHCP) which is severely ill-posed, i.e., the solution does not depend continuously on the data. We propose a stable numerical approach based on the finite-difference method and the least-squares scheme to solve this problem in the presence of noisy data. We prove the convergence of the numerical solution, then to regularize the resultant ill-conditioned linear system of equations, we apply the Tikhonov regularization 0th, 1st and 2nd method to obtain the stable numerical approximation to the solution. The stability and accuracy of the scheme presented is evaluated by comparison with the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) method.