J. Montes-Gutierrez, Víctor HERRERA-JIMENEZ, Ricardo RODRIGUEZ-CARVAJAL, Rafael GARCIA-GUTIÉRREZ
{"title":"Hydrogen synthesis from seawater by means of solar energy","authors":"J. Montes-Gutierrez, Víctor HERRERA-JIMENEZ, Ricardo RODRIGUEZ-CARVAJAL, Rafael GARCIA-GUTIÉRREZ","doi":"10.35429/ejb.2021.14.8.18.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35429/ejb.2021.14.8.18.22","url":null,"abstract":"In the electrolysis of seawater as a source of hydrogen, two options exist for the performance of the electrolysis process. The first option is the total desalination of the sea water and then add alkalis for the process of electrolysis to produce hydrogen in the cathode and oxygen in the anode. The disadvantages of this approach are the high cost of desalination and the water treatment to make it alkaline. The main advantage is the ability to use developed technology for the direct electrolysis of fresh water. The second option is to design an electrolyze system capable of utilizing sea water for direct electrolysis at a low power density and electrolyze only a small portion of the water in contact with the electrodes. The advantage of this method is the lower capital required for the system and natural elimination of the waste brine which is only slightly enriched with salts. Also using this technic is possible to produce important amounts of chlorine as a sub-product and also magnesium and sodium as hydroxides that have many uses in the chemical industry. In this research we produced hydrogen via electrolysis from simply natural resources, seawater and solar energy. In order to carry out this experiment we used water from Bahia of Kino Sonora, a place no too far from the University of Sonora, only 100 kilometers away, and a 100-W solar panel that generate DC electricity using directly sunlight that is an abundant resource in the coasts of Sonora. In this work we have been able to produce about 2 liters of hydrogen per hour and nearly 1.2 liters of chlorine per hour with a normal direct radiation of 900 W/m2. This technique could be the solution to the fuels problematic of the ethnicities that inhabit the shores of Sonora and other states of México.","PeriodicalId":300616,"journal":{"name":"ECORFAN Journal Bolivia","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116247716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterization of silica sand from grinding and sieving, for use and handling as\u0000raw materials by dry means","authors":"Jorge González-Toto","doi":"10.35429/ejb.2021.15.8.21.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35429/ejb.2021.15.8.21.27","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives\u0000\u0000The present research work allows to apply the grinding and sieving in the characterization of raw materials by dry way in Chemical Engineering in the same way it allows studying the behavior of the diameters and the distribution of the particles from the sand screening silica, whose purpose is to determine the efficiency in the grinding of solids, in the sieving of particles of different sizes from Tyler sieves, whose purpose is to characterize the silica sand as solid raw materials by dry way, related to the different applications of the unit operations such as: in the glass, ceramic, metallurgy, foundry, construction, abrasive and drying industries.\u0000\u0000\u0000Methodology\u0000\u0000 This article describes the methodology of the grinding and sieving of silica sand in the laboratory of Chemical plants of the Technological University of the southeast of Veracruz, from which the operation is developed and obtaining its efficiency, as a product in the mesh 70, from the screening and characterization of this solid raw material by dry method. for later uses in industry and in Chemical Engineering.\u0000\u0000Contribución\u0000\u0000Las industrias hoy en día requieren del analisis de sus materias primas de acuerdo a las especificaciones de los clientes, es por ello que la molienda y el tamizado ha permitido a la ingeniería Química un amplio desarrollo en las operaciones unitarias, así como la mejora de la calidad en los productos solidos ya sea por vía seca o húmeda, en este proyecto se desarrolla un tratamiento por vía seca de la arena silica. a partir de la molienda en un molino de bolas y tamizado en un tamizador Axial desarrollado en el Laboratorio de plantas de la Universidad Tecnológica del Sureste de Veracruz, se pretende comercializarlo con empresas del ramo, como: MADISA, cuyo propósito sea aplicarlo en la producción, elaboración y manufactura de envases de color ámbar ya se medicinal o envases de cerveza (Retsch, 2012).","PeriodicalId":300616,"journal":{"name":"ECORFAN Journal Bolivia","volume":"172 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116144553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}