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The sorption of components of crude oil to soils affects their transport and transformation.In this study,batch experiments were carried out to investigate the sorption and competitive sorption of benzene and toluene to soils with different amounts of organic carbon.The results of single-solute solution experiments showed that the sorption of single compound to soils could be described by a linear sorption isotherm,and the sorption capacity was proportional to the soil organic carbon content.In bi-solute solution experiments,competitive sorption of solutes was observed,which caused a decrease of sorption capacity of target compound in comparison with single-solute cases.In addition to partition process,the competitive sorption results indicated that the specific sites probably played an important role in the sorption of organic compounds on the solid surface.
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Scherrer Equation, L=Kλ/β.cosθ, was developed in 1918, to calculate the nano crystallite size (L) by XRD radiation of wavelength λ (nm) from measuring full width at half maximum of peaks (β) in radian located at any 2θ in the pattern. Shape factor of K can be 0.62 - 2.08 and is usually taken as about 0.89. But, if all of the peaks of a pattern are going to give a similar value of L, then β.cosθ must be identical. This means that for a typical 5nm crystallite size and λ Cukα1 = 0.15405 nm the peak at 2θ = 170° must be more than ten times wide with respect to the peak at 2θ = 10°, which is never observed. The purpose of modified Scherrer equation given in this paper is to provide a new approach to the kind of using Scherrer equation, so that a least squares technique can be applied to minimize the sources of errors. Modified Scherrer equation plots lnβ against ln(1/cosθ) and obtains the intercept of a least squares line regression, ln=Kλ/L, from which a single value of L is obtained through all of the available peaks. This novel technique is used for a natural Hydroxyapatite (HA) of bovine bone fired at 600°C, 700°C, 900°C and 1100°C from which nano crystallite sizes of 22.8, 35.5, 37.3 and 38.1 nm were respectively obtained and 900°C was selected for biomaterials purposes. These results show that modified Scherrer equation method is promising in nano materials applications and can distinguish between 37.3 and 38.1 nm by using the data from all of the available peaks.
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The sorption kinetic and isothermal behaviors of BDE-47 on three natural soils with different soil organic matter fractions(fOC) were studied. The results demonstrated that a two(fast and slow)-compartment first-order model was more appropriate for describing the sorption kinetic data, compared to a one-compartment first-order model, especially in the initial sorption stage within 49 h. The fast sorption was dominant during the whole sorption process from beginning to the apparent sorption equilibrium; while the contribution of the slow sorption to the total sorption amount gradually increased over time and then attained to a plateau at 97 h. The achieving time to the individual sorption capacity for the fast sorption was much shorter than that for the slow sorption. The contribution of the fast sorption to the increase in the total sorption amount of BDE-47 was prevailing at the start of sorption process from 3 h to 5 h; while the fraction of the slow sorption became principal in the subsequent stage of sorption process. Within the narrow equilibrium concentration range due to the fairly low aqueous solubility of BDE-47, the fitting results by the linear partitioning model were comparable with the linear portion by the nonlinear Freundlich model in this study. As for the Freundlich model, the nonlinear exponent(n) values of BDE-47 for the two samples with lower fOC(0.72%) or higher fOC(7.90%) were obviously lower than 1.0(0.75±0.03 and 0.74±0.02, respectively), suggesting somewhat nonlinear sorption characteristics in the studied range of apparent equilibrium concentrations of BDE-47; whereas the linear behavior of BDE-47 for the left sample with medium fOC(2.86%) was indicated by its n value much closed to 1.0(1.03±0.03).
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The γ-alumina powder is a potential material for washcoat application. This paper shows the preparation of γ-alumina using ultrasonic technique in order to obtain nanocrystalline of γ-alumina powder. The 50 gr of the γ-alumina powders was treated in the 250 gr ethanol solution using ultrasonic technique within 10, 20, 30, and 60 minutes, respectively. The process of sonication was set at the fixed frequency (18.520 kHz) and current of 2 A. Crystallite size was evaluated by using X-ray diffraction (XRD) data based with Scherrer analysis and Williamson-Hall method. The microstructural characterization of the γ-alumina powders was observed using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDX) analysis. The result shows that the optimum of nanocrystalline size of γ-alumina at ultrasonic process for 30 minutes are approximately 4.80 nm and 29.50 nm with Scherrer and Williamson-Hall calculation, respectively.
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In this paper,the container wall sorption percentage and the sorption ratio of Am betweensolution and such sorption materials as bentonite are studied with the HPGe detector connected-with S-85 multichannel system,the influence of container wall sorption on sorption ratio also isdiscussed.The results show that the container wall sorption with solid sorptive materials is lowerthan that without solid sorptive materials. The container wall sorption should be considered forthe sorptive materials with low sorption ratio values and can be neglected for those with highsorption ratio values.
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The sorption kinetics and isotherms of BDE-28 on three natural soils with different soil organic matter fractions (f(oc)) were investigated. The results indicated that a two (fast and slow)-compartment first-order model was more appropriate for describing the sorption kinetic data, compared to a one-compartment first-order model, especially in the initial sorption stage within 25 h. The fast sorption was predominant during the whole sorption process from beginning to the apparent sorption equilibrium; while the contribution of the slow sorption to the total sorption amount gradually increased and then achieved a plateau at 49 h or 55 h. The approaching time to the individual sorption capacity for the fast sorption was much shorter than that for the slow sorption. The contribution of the fast sorption to the increase in the total sorption amount of BDE-28 was prevailing at the beginning of sorption process from 2.5 h to 4.5 h; whereas the fraction of the slow sorption became primary at the subsequent stage of sorption process. The fitting results by the Dubinin-Ashtakhov (DA) model were comparable with those by the Freundlich model in the range of apparent equilibrium concentration studied. As for the Freundlich model, the nonlinear exponent (n) values of BDE-28 for the two samples with lower f(oc) (0.72%) or higher f(oc) (7.90%) approached to 1.0 (1.03 +/- 0.05 and 1.00 +/- 0.05, respectively), suggesting the linear sorption characteristics in the studied range of apparent equilibrium concentrations of BDE-28; while the nonlinear behavior of BDE-28 for the left sample with medium f(oc) (4.42%) was indicated by its n value less than 1.0 (0.89 +/- 0.04).
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Abstract: The decrease in particle size may offer new properties to drugs. In this study, we investigated the size reduction influence of the acetaminophen (C 8 H 9 O 2 N) particles by mechanical activation using a dry ball mill. The activated samples with the average size of 1 µm were then investigated in different time periods with the infrared (IR), inductively coupled plasma (ICP), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) methods. The results of the IR and XRD images showed no change in the drug structure after the mechanical activation of all samples. With the peak height at full width at half maximum from XRD and the Scherrer equation, the size of the activated crystallite samples illustrated that the AFM images were in sound agreement with the Scherrer equation. According to the peaks of the AFM images, the average size of the particles in 30 hours of activation was 24 nm with a normal particle distribution. The ICP analysis demonstrated the presence of tungsten carbide particle impurities after activation from the powder sample impacting with the ball and jar. The greatest reduction in size was after milling for 30 hours. Keywords: acetaminophen, mechanical activation, structure investigation, nanoparticles, ball mill
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