{"title":"The influence of nickel loading on reducibility of NiO/Al 2 O 3 catalysts synthesized by sol-gel method","authors":"Mohammad Zangouei, A. Z. Moghaddam, M. Arasteh","doi":"10.3329/CERB.V14I2.5052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/CERB.V14I2.5052","url":null,"abstract":"The sol-gel method was used to synthesize nickel-alumina catalysts with various nickel loadings. Chemical and physical properties of support and supported nickel were characterized by TGA, DTA, EDX, SEM, BET, XRD and TPR techniques. Calcination temperature (500°C) was determined by performing thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis on the samples. Energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) was used to determine the actual content of nickel on alumina. N 2 adsorption test revealed that the specific surface area varied between 550 and 223 m 2 /g for pure alumina and 30%Ni/Al, respectively. X-ray diffraction patterns showed no peaks due to NiO species and NiO species were well dispersed on the support by formation of NiAl 2 O 4 phase. Temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) indicated that the nickel species mainly presented in NiAl 2 O 4 phase and small amount of NiO. In the 20 percent nickel loading, the surface NiAl 2 O 4 phase, which is between NiO and bulk NiAl 2 O 4 phases in terms reducibility, was formed considering as a successful result. Keywords: Nickel-alumina catalysts; sol-gel method; thermogravimetric analysis; dispersion of NiO; reducibility DOI = 10.3329/cerb.v14i2.5052 Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 14 (2010) 97-102","PeriodicalId":9756,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin","volume":"25 1","pages":"97-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85206321","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":"Modeling and simulation of condensed sulfur in catalytic beds of CLAUS process: rapid estimation","authors":"R. Abedini, M. K. Salooki, S. Ghasemian","doi":"10.3329/CERB.V14I2.5595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/CERB.V14I2.5595","url":null,"abstract":"The Claus process has been known and used in the industry for over 100 years. It involves thermal oxidation of hydrogen sulfide and its reaction with sulfur dioxide to form sulfur and water vapor. This process is equilibrium-limited and usually achieves efficiencies in the range of 94-97%, which have been regarded as acceptable in the past years. First bed operates at the temperature of 573 K, second and third beds operate at 523K and 473K. Outlet of each bed enters the condenser. Operating temperature of each condenser is about 413K which sulfur condenses in them. In this study catalytic bed process of sulfur recovery unit has been mathematically modeled and by MATLAB software simulated, and then output conditions of compounds has been calculated. Keywords: Sulfur recovery; Claus process; catalytic beds; modeling; simulation DOI = 10.3329/cerb.v14i2.5595 Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 14 (2010) 110-114","PeriodicalId":9756,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin","volume":"34 1","pages":"110-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74262855","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}
S. Karim, C. M. Mustafa, M. Assaduzzaman, Mayeedul Islam
{"title":"Effect of nitrate ion on corrosion inhibition of mild steel in simulated cooling water","authors":"S. Karim, C. M. Mustafa, M. Assaduzzaman, Mayeedul Islam","doi":"10.3329/CERB.V14I2.4813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/CERB.V14I2.4813","url":null,"abstract":"Corrosion inhibition of mild steel by sodium nitrite in simulated cooling water (SCW) containing chloride ion was investigated. Electrochemical techniques such as corrosion potential (E corr ) measurement and potentiodynamic sweep experiments were used. The experimental parameters were concentration of the inhibitor, pH of the aqueous media and soaking time. Nitrite inhibited mild steel corrosion in near neutral and alkaline (pH 6 and above) SCW and accelerated corrosion in acidic media (pH 4 and below). Inhibition activity increased with the increase of nitrite concentration up to 500 ppm, and afterwards remained more or less constant at pH 6 and above. In stagnant SCW, maximum corrosion inhibition was observed at pH 8 for all concentration of NaNO 2 . Inhibition action of NaNO 2 was found to increase with the increase of soaking time up to 24 hours, and afterwards it remained more or less constant at all nitrite concentrations at and above pH 6. Based on the experimental results, mechanisms of action of NaNO 2 on mild steel corrosion inhibition in SCW have been proposed. Keywords: Corrosion; Potentiodynamic sweep; Inhibitor DOI = 10.3329/cerb.v14i2.4813 Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 14 (2010) 87-91","PeriodicalId":9756,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin","volume":"1 1","pages":"87-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81655088","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":"Wastewater treatment options for paper mills using recycled paper/imported pulps as raw materials: Bangladesh perspective","authors":"Md. Mominur Rahman, Kazi Bayzid Kabir","doi":"10.3329/CERB.V14I1.5236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/CERB.V14I1.5236","url":null,"abstract":"Paper sector in Bangladesh is currently expanding day-by-day to meet the increasing demand of industrial, writing/printing and specialty papers. Paper mills have adverse e\u000bects on the environment by producing huge quantity of wastewater. Yearly, approximately 14 million m 3 wastewater is being discharged to the surface water bodies and irrigated lands without no/limited treatment. Water pollution from pulp and paper mills can be minimized through proper effuent characterization and design of appropriate treatment facilities. In this article di\u000berent techniques of wastewater treatment for paper mills are discussed. Case study based on treatability analysis and jar test for a paper mill producing 200 m 3 /h of effuent is provided. On the basis of the case study a simplified treatment process is proposed. Proper treatment of such mills would not only save our environment but can also be beneficial for the industries by water usage minimization. Keywords: Pulp and paper mills; recycled paper; imported pulp; environmental impact; wastewater characterization; wastewater treatment DOI = 10.3329/cerb.v14i1.5236 Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 14 (2010) 65-68","PeriodicalId":9756,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin","volume":"3 1","pages":"65-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85958587","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":"Biofiltration kinetics of ethylacetate and xylene using sugarcane bagasse based biofilter","authors":"S. Viswanathan, R. Manivasagam, R. Natarajan","doi":"10.3329/CERB.V14I1.4683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/CERB.V14I1.4683","url":null,"abstract":"Biodegradation kinetic behaviors of ethyl acetate and xylene in a sugarcane bagasse biofilter were investigated. Microbial growth rate, biochemical reaction rate and kinetic analysis were inhibited at higher inlet concentration. For the microbial growth process, the microbial growth rate of ethyl acetate was greater than that of xylene in the inlet concentration range of 0.2 - 1.2 g.m- 3 . The degree of inhibitive effect was almost the same for ethyl acetate and xylene in this concentration range. The half-saturation constant Ks values of ethyl acetate and xylene were 1.8489 and 1.784 g.m -3 , respectively. The maximum reaction rate V m values of ethyl acetate and xylene were 0.8073and 0.8438 g C h -1 kg -1 packed material, respectively at a concentration of 0.2 g.m -3 . For the biochemical reaction process, the biochemical reaction rate of ethyl acetate was greater than that of xylene in the inlet concentration range of 0.2 - 1.2 g.m -3 . The inhibitive effect for ethyl acetate was more pronounced than that for 0.2 - 1.2 g.m -3 in this concentration range. The EAX concentration profiles along the depth were also determined by using diffusion reaction model. It was observed that at low concentration and low flow rate, the model is in good agreement with the experimental values for ethylacetate and xylene. Keywords: Xylene, ethyl acetate, sugarcane bagasse, biofilter, biochemical reaction DOI = 10.3329/cerb.v14i1.4683 Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 14 (2010) 51-57","PeriodicalId":9756,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin","volume":"18 1","pages":"51-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81535996","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":"Treatment of Textile Wastewater with Chlorine: An Effective Method","authors":"A. Quader","doi":"10.3329/CERB.V14I1.3206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/CERB.V14I1.3206","url":null,"abstract":"As the chlorination of textile wastewater achieves all the objectives of its treatment such as color removal and reduction of TDS, BOD and COD; and the treated effluents meet the standards set as per Schedule 12-B of the Environment Conservation Rules-1997 (ECR-97, Bangladesh), the treatment of textile wastewater with chlorine gas is a practical technological option for Bangladesh. If this process which is simple if adopted by the textile sector, the ETP operation would be widely practised for its low operating costs because of low price of chlorine produced by local chlor-alkali plants in the country. Satisfactory operation of the ETPs treating textile wastewater with chlorine at low costs has made this process affordable and attractive to the textile sector. Some of the perceived limitations of chlorination outweighs the greater benefits of textile wastewater treatment with chlorine gas leading to cleaner water bodies which receive these effluents otherwise. Keywords: Textile wastewater, chlorination, ETP, wastewater treatment DOI = 10.3329/cerb.v14i1.3206 Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 14 (2010) 59-63","PeriodicalId":9756,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin","volume":"31 1","pages":"59-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83129075","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":"Diagnosis of Process Nonlinearities and Valve stiction: Data Driven Approaches By M.A.A. Shoukat Choudhury, Sirish L. Shah, Nina F. Thornhill (Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-540-79223-9, 2008)","authors":"Kamrul Hasan","doi":"10.3329/CERB.V14I1.5048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/CERB.V14I1.5048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9756,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin","volume":"31 1","pages":"71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82177150","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}
D. Das, Md Alauddin, M. Rahman, K. Nath, Md. Rokonuzzaman Rokonuzzaman
{"title":"Effect of preservatives on extending the shelf-life of Rasogolla","authors":"D. Das, Md Alauddin, M. Rahman, K. Nath, Md. Rokonuzzaman Rokonuzzaman","doi":"10.3329/CERB.V14I1.3940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/CERB.V14I1.3940","url":null,"abstract":"The study aims, to find out an effective preservative to extend the shelf-life of Rasogolla, a highly popular Bengal sweetmeat achieving the highest worth in all social and religious festivals in Bangladesh due to its special appeal of taste, as well as to assess the effect of preservative on its biochemical and microbial status. Rasogolla available in local market survives for too a short span (2-3days) to export in abroad since its processing and preservation still lie at a very infantile stage. In this research, Rasogolla was prepared in laboratory using calcium propionate, sodium metabisulfite, sorbic acid, sodium diacetate, sodium propionate, acetic acid, benzoic acid, sodium benzoate, butylated hydroxytoluene, butylated hydroxyanisole, P-4-hydroxybenzoate as preservatives followed by a comparative study on the biochemical and microbial status of both market and laboratory made Rasogolla. Sorbic acid and sodium metabisulfite exerted the highest effectiveness in extending Rasogolla’s shelf-life for 24 and 15 days, respectively, whereas the combination of sorbic acid (0.1%) and sodium metabisulfite (0.1%) was found more effective than their individual uses rendering the longer keeping ability up to 30 days ensuring color, flavor, taste and texture. Compositional analysis showed that total solid, moisture, fat, protein, carbohydrate and ash content of market Rasogolla were 75.87-83.17%, 16.83-24.13%, 2.86-4.31%, 5.2-7.94%, 64.26-73.30% and 0.30-0.61%, respectively, whereas those in laboratory made were 73.70-79.83%, 20.17-26.30%, 3.18-6.09% 6.9-8.59%, 61.18-65.25% and 0.30-0.61%, respectively. Market Rasogolla were found more susceptible for microbial growth and contamination than that prepared in laboratory. Keywords: Rasogolla, Preservative, Sorbic acid, Channa, Na-metabisulfite DOI = 10.3329/cerb.v14i1.3940 Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 14 (2010) 19-24","PeriodicalId":9756,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin","volume":"66 1","pages":"19-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73818387","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":"Chemical Analysis and Comparison of Ordinary Portland Cement of Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa Pakistan","authors":"N. Amin, Khurshid Ali","doi":"10.3329/CERB.V14I1.4320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/CERB.V14I1.4320","url":null,"abstract":"In this study different brands of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) produced and available in Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa, Pakistan have been studied for different chemical parameters and compared with British standard specifications. The amounts of chemical constituents like SiO 2 , Al 2 O 3 , Fe 2 O 3 , CaO, MgO, SO 3 , insoluble residue (IR), free lime and loss on ignition (LOI) were determined in accordance with British Standard (BS) Specifications. All the results are presented to provide both quantitative and qualitative notion of several locally produced ordinary Compositions of most of this constituents as determined experimentally were within the range of the standard values. The possible reasons for variation in chemical compositions and their consequences have been discussed. Keywords: Ordinary Portland cement, Chemical Composition, Quality Verification DOI = 10.3329/cerb.v14i1.4320 Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 14 (2010) 45-49","PeriodicalId":9756,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin","volume":"4 1","pages":"45-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87691206","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":"Study of the Physical Parameters of Ordinary Portland Cement of Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa Pakistan and their comparison with Pakistan standard Specifications","authors":"N. Amin","doi":"10.3329/CERB.V14I1.3729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/CERB.V14I1.3729","url":null,"abstract":"This study discusses di\u000berent physical parameters of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) produced and available in Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa, Pakistan, and their comparison with Pakistan standards specification, which includes Blaine, compressive strength at di\u000berent ages, consistency, setting time and Le-chatelier Expansion. All the results are presented to provide both quantitative and qualitative notion of several locally produced ordinary Portland cement of most of this constituents as determined experimentally were within the range of the standard values. The possible reasons for variation in physical parameters and their consequences have been discussed. It has been found that cherat cement is on the top in all the samples studied with reference to their physical parameters. Keywords: Ordinary Portland cement, physical parameters, quality verification DOI = 10.3329/cerb.v14i1.3729 Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin 14 (2010)7-10","PeriodicalId":9756,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin","volume":"7 1","pages":"7-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88938180","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}