Modeling and Experimental Investigation of Sulfurous Compounds Removal from Gas Condensate through Ultrasound-Assisted Oxidative Desulfurization Method.

This study employed an ultrasound-assisted oxidative desulfurization process (UAOD) to investigate the degradation of three sulfurous compounds in the synthetic gas condensate. Various parameters, including oxidizers (hydrogen peroxide, sodium peroxide, potassium superoxide), promoters (formic acid, acetic acid), catalysts (phosphotungstic acid, ferrous(II) sulfate, zirconium dioxide, vanadium pentoxide, aluminum oxide γ, copper(II) oxide), and phase transfer agents (isobutanol, tetraoctylammonium bromide, and tetra--butylammonium fluoride), were examined to identify the optimal combination for reducing sulfurous compounds in the UAOD process. The influence of the extraction stage and reactor vessel material on the desulfurization efficiency was also investigated.

Preparation of new hydrogels by visible light cross-linking of dextran methacrylate and poly(ethylene glycol)-maleic acid copolymer.

In this work, a series of new biodegradable and biocompatible hydrogels were synthesized by photopolymerization of dextran-methacrylate (DXM) with poly(ethylene glycol)-maleic acid copolymer (poly(PEG-co-MA, PEGMA)) using (-)-riboflavin as a visible light photoinitiator and L-arginine as a co-photoinitiator. DXM was prepared by acylation of dextran (DX) with methacryloyl chloride (MAC), and PEGMA was synthesized by polycondensation of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and maleic acid (MA). The DXM and PEGMA were characterized by FT-IR and HNMR spectroscopy.

Efficient hydrolysis of starch by α-amylase immobilized on cloisite 30B and modified forms of cloisite 30B by adsorption and covalent methods.

In this paper, α-amylase from Bacillus subtilis was successfully immobilized on three supports. First, α-amylase was immobilized on cloisite 30B via the adsorption method. Then cloisite 30B was activated with tosyl chloride and epichlorohydrin.

Covalent immobilization of lipase from Candida rugosa on epoxy-activated cloisite 30B as a new heterofunctional carrier and its application in the synthesis of banana flavor and production of biodiesel.

In this paper, an epoxy-activated cloisite (ECL) was prepared as a new heterofunctional carrier via a reaction between cloisite 30B (CL) and epichlorohydrin and utilized for covalent immobilization of lipase from Candida rugosa. The lipase immobilized on the ECL (LECL) was successfully used in the olive oil hydrolysis, synthesis of isoamyl acetate (banana flavor), and biodiesel production. The TGA, FT-IR, SEM, and XRD were used to characterize CL, ECL, and LECL.

Population inversion of binary Lennard-Jones mixtures in nanoslit pores (a density functional theory study).

The aim of this work is to investigate the population inversion of binary asymmetric Lennard-Jones mixtures inside nanoslit pores due to confinement effects for both vapor and liquid phases. For this purpose we have used mean field fundamental measure theory, and the effect of different parameters such as interaction strength and size ratios of the components, confinement size, and thermodynamic state on the population distribution of molecules have been studied. It has been shown that in the case of bulk liquid mixtures, increasing the role of confinement effects can lead to preferential adsorption of the component with larger size and weaker intermolecular interactions into the nanopore in spite of its minority in the bulk which is referred as population inversion.

How wall curvature affects the structure of fluid around a cylindrical nanoparticle: a DFT approach.

In this work, the perturbative fundamental measure theory has been employed to obtain the two-dimensional density distributions of the two hard-sphere and hard-core Two-Yukawa fluids around a hard cylindrical nanoparticle. We have performed our calculations for different densities and temperatures. It has been observed that the oscillatory behavior of structure of molecules around a cylindrical nanoparticle increases with density and with decreasing wall curvature.