Ammonia treatment, effect

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M. Brebu, E. Jakab, and Y. Sakata, Effect of flame retardants and Sb2C>3 synergist on the thermal decomposition of high-impact polystyrene and on its debromination by ammonia treatment, J. Anal. Appl. Pyrolysis, 79(l-2) 346-352, May 2007. 

The addition of water-soluble polymers such as polyethylene oxide (PEO) or polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) into the synthetic mixture of the C TMAX-HN03-TE0S-H20 system (n = 16 or 18 X = Br or Cl) under shear flow is found to promote uniformity and elongation of rope-like mesoporous silica. The millimeter-scaled mesoporous silica ropes are found to possess a three-level hierarchical structure. The addition of water-soluble polymer does not affect the physical properties of the silica ropes. Moreover, further hydrothermal treatment of the acid-made material under basic ammonia conditions effectively promotes reconstruction of the silica nanochannels while maintaining the rope-like morphology. As a result, a notable enhancement in both thermal and hydrothermal stability is found. 

It was shown by these authors that the amount of nitrogen present during pretreatment of a catalyst affects the ultimate activity for ammonia synthesis (206). Specifically, it was found that treating H2-reduced small particles with ammonia at 670 K, followed by re-reduction of the catalyst with a H2 N2 gas mixture, gave rise to an increase in the catalytic activity compared to the activity measured after H2 reduction alone. However, when the catalyst in this high-activity state was further treated with H2 alone at 670 K, the catalytic activity was found to decrease to that value observed before the above ammonia treatment. Subsequent ammonia treatment returned the catalyst to its high-activity state. No such effects were observed for metallic-iron particles greater than 10 nm in size. 

Mossbauer spectra were then taken of the small iron particles after various pretreatments, with the catalyst under reaction conditions (765). For increased sensitivity the velocity-offset mode was used (Section II, B, 1), and the magnetically split spectral area versus temperature curves after the various pretreatments are shown in Fig. 30. It is therein seen that the ammonia treatment, which increases the catalytic activity, decreases the magnetically split spectral area at a given temperature this is the result of a decrease in the magnetosurface anisotropy energy barrier. While the effects of these pretreatments are in themselves interesting, the important point for surface... 

Thus, the effect of the ammonia treatment, which increases the catalytic activity, is to convert sites from the left to the right in the above sequence. 

Strangely, XCII (unlike LXXXVI or LXXXIX) is resistant to treatment with methanolic ammonia. To effect the formation of anhydronucleo-side XCIII, several hours of refluxing with dilute alkali are required.197 It appears, therefore, that the substituents or the configuration at C3, or both, have some influence on the ease of this displacement reaction (anhy-dronucleoside formation). Incidentally, the preparation of l-/8-D-lyxofu-ranosylthymine completes the synthesis of all four possible 1 -/J-D-aldopento-furanosylthymines.68 169 197... 

These techniques have been used to elucidate the effects of variety [289], temperature [287], scouring-bleaching [290], caustic mercerization [290-292], liquid ammonia treatment [290,292,293], cross-linking with different agents under varying conditions [294-298], dye-ability [296,299], and treatment with cellulases [300-302], on the cotton. The trends observed are summarized in Table 5.8. 

Surface applied post treatments are also commonly being used. Myers ( ) has documented the effectiveness of a laboratory applied ammonia treatment and also a urea containing coating to hardwood plywood. In practice most commercial treatments are applied by roller coaters and the effectiveness of the treatment depends not... 

The effect on particleboard of an ammonia treatment can also be shown using this testing method. In figure 8 again the ideal mixing model is applied. Notice that the line with the lowest emission is the one on the top. The reason is that the reciprocal values and not the steady state formaldehyde concentrations as such, are plotted. Here the slope is different as well. 

For the same thermal treatment (fixed duration and temperature), specific surface area of SmP04, Cs2HP04 are systematically weaker of about 20 m2/g (or even 30 m2/g) than those of SmP04. On an other hand, we have checked that the ammonia treatment has no effect on specific surface area. 

The effect of the gaseous atmosphere was studied by Tarasevich and Radyuskina who concluded that under N2, Ar, and He in the temperature range of 500-1,000 °C for different dwell times between 0.3 and 5.0 h, the activity and durability of the studied metalloporphyrins and metallo-phthalocyanines were similar [25]. This was a case for disagreement between different groups who observed dependence between the activity of heat-treated catalysts and the gas used during the heat treatment. For example, Dhar et al. showed the difference in the catalytic activity of heat-treated CoTAA under vacuum, N2, Ar, and N [26]. They concluded that the most active ORR catalyst was obtained under vacuum with the following decrease in activity vacuum > N2 > Ar > N (Fig. 8.2). Dodelet and his collaborators [27] showed that an iron tetra(methoxyphenyl) porphyrin is the most stable, but the least active when heat-treated in Ar, and that it becomes very active and loses its stability when treated in ammonia, an effect attributed to the concurrent increase in the microporous surface area, as well as the N and Fe surface content. The authors raised important questions about the catalyst design and optimum heat-treatment conditions for maximum stability and activity. 

The transient kinetic model of the standard SCR reaction over a commercial V-based catalyst for vehicles reported in Reference (101) is the only treatment available so far accounting both for the redox nature of the SCR catalytic mechanism and for the ammonia inhibition effect. It relies on a dual-site redox scheme, whereby ammonia is first adsorbed onto acidic sites, but reacts with NO on different redox sites associated with the vanadium component. The redox sites can, however, be blocked by excess ammonia. Adopting a Mars-Van Krevelen formal approach, the following modified redox (MR) rate expression was derived (27) ... 

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