Carbon surface carbonates

Several studies have been directed toward examination of the interaction of acids and bases with active carbons (I, 8, 10, 17, 18, 19). Boehm (3), Garten and Weiss (9), and Snoeyink and Weber (21) have presented reviews on the subject. Garten and Weiss (8, 9, 10) have shown that acid and alkali sorption can be related to surface functional groups which form during the preparation of the carbon. Alkali sorption occurs principally on carbons activated at temperatures near 400°C., and is attributed to the presence of phenolic and lactone functional groups on the carbon surface. Carbons which sorb acid usually are activated at temperatures near 1000°C. the acid reaction in this case is assumed to take place with chromene (benzpyran) structures on the surface. 

Gurrath, M., Kuretzky, T., Boehm, H.-P., et al. (2000). Palladium catalysts on activated carbon supports Influence of reduction temperature, origin of the support and pretreatments of the carbon surface. Carbon, 38, 1241-55. 

Chen, X., Farber, M., Gao, Y., et al. (2003). Mechanisms of surfactant adsorption on non-polar, air-oxidized and ozone-treated carbon surfaces. Carbon, 41, 1489-500. 

MiiUer EA, Gubbins KE Molecular simulation study of hydrophilic and hydrophobic behavior of activated carbon surfaces, Carbon 36 1433—1438, 1998. 

Takagi H, Hatori H, Yamada Y (2005) Reversible adsotption/desotption property of hydrogen on carbon surface. Carbon 43(14) 3037-3039. doi 10.1016/j.carbon.2005.06.032... 

Adsorption. Adsorption involves the transfer of a component onto a solid surface. An example is the adsorption of organic vapors by activated carbon. Activated carbon is a highly porous form of carbon manufactured from a variety of carbonaceous raw materials such as coal or wood. The adsorbent may need to be... 

If compaction occurs as a result of production careful monitoring is required. The Ekofisk Field in the Norwegian North Sea made headlines when, as a result of hydrocarbon production, the pores of the fine-grained carbonate reservoir collapsed and the platforms on the seabed started to sink. The situation was later remedied by inserting steel sections into the platform legs. Compaction effects are also an issue in the Groningen gas field in Holland where subsidence in the order of one meter is expected at the surface. 

Surface water Is usually undersaturated in calcium ions (Ca ). Where (even saturated) surface water mixes with sea water, mixing zone corrosion will dissolve calcium carbonate. Evidence of this occurring may be seen on islands. 

While the long chain hydrocarbons (above 18 carbon atoms) may exist in solution at reservoir temperature and pressure, they can solidify at the lower temperatures and pressures experienced in surface facilities, or even in the tubing. The fraction of the longer chain hydrocarbons in the crude oil are therefore of particular interest to process engineers, who will typically require a detailed laboratory analysis of the crude oil oomposition, extending to the measurement of the fraction of molecules as long as C3Q. 

The corrosion rate of steel in carbonic acid is faster than in hydrochloric acid Correlations are available to predict the rate of steel corrosion for different partial pressures of CO2 and different temperatures. At high temperatures the iron carbonate forms a film of protective scale on the steel s surface, but this is easily washed away at lower temperatures (again a corrosion nomogram is available to predict the impact of the scale on the corrosion rate at various CO2 partial pressures and temperatures). 

It is generally used with half mild or mild steels (carbon <. 4). Its purpose is to enrich in carbon the superficial metal layers by diffusion phenomenon. To obtain a hard cemented layer after this processing, we generally proceed by tempering. The chemical processing increases the rate of atomic defects by the introduction of one or many elements in the superficial layers. We can reach surface hardnesses of about 800 VICKERS. 

A particularly insidious failure mechanism that is commonly found in carbon-steel tubing is under-deposit corrosion. In many cases, corrosion products fomi a scab that can mask the presence of the pitting, making it difficult to quantitatively assess using conventional NDT methods. However, by combining proper cleaning procedures with laser-based inspection methods, the internal surface of the tubing can be accurately characterized and the presence of under-deposit corrosion can be confirmed and quantified. 

This observation that the length of the hydrocarbon chain could be varied from 16 to 26 carbon atoms without affecting the limiting area could only mean that at this point the molecules were oriented vertically. From the molecular weight and density of palmitic acid, one computes a molecular volume of 495 A a molecule occupying only 21 A on the surface could then be about 4.5 A on the side but must be about 23 A long. In this way one begins to obtain information about the shape and orientation as well as the size of molecules. 

These effects can be illustrated more quantitatively. The drop in the magnitude of the potential of mica with increasing salt is illustrated in Fig. V-7 here yp is reduced in the immobile layer by ion adsorption and specific ion effects are evident. In Fig. V-8, the pH is potential determining and alters the electrophoretic mobility. Carbon blacks are industrially important materials having various acid-base surface impurities depending on their source and heat treatment. 

The location and shape of the entire electrocapillary curve are affected if the general nature of the medium is changed. Fawcett and co-workers (see Ref. 126) have used nonaqueous media such as methanol, V-methylformamide, and propylene carbonate. In earlier studies, electrocapillaiy curves were obtained for O.OIA/ hydrochloric acid in mixed water-ethanol media of various compositions [117, 118]. The surface adsorption of methanol, obtained from... 

Qualitative examples abound. Perfect crystals of sodium carbonate, sulfate, or phosphate may be kept for years without efflorescing, although if scratched, they begin to do so immediately. Too strongly heated or burned lime or plaster of Paris takes up the first traces of water only with difficulty. Reactions of this type tend to be autocat-alytic. The initial rate is slow, due to the absence of the necessary linear interface, but the rate accelerates as more and more product is formed. See Refs. 147-153 for other examples. Ruckenstein [154] has discussed a kinetic model based on nucleation theory. There is certainly evidence that patches of product may be present, as in the oxidation of Mo(lOO) surfaces [155], and that surface defects are important [156]. There may be catalysis thus reaction VII-27 is catalyzed by water vapor [157]. A topotactic reaction is one where the product or products retain the external crystalline shape of the reactant crystal [158]. More often, however, there is a complicated morphology with pitting, cracking, and pore formation, as with calcium carbonate [159]. 

There are complexities. The wetting of carbon blacks is very dependent on the degree of surface oxidation Healey et al. [19] found that q mm in water varied with the fraction of hydrophilic sites as determined by water adsorption isotherms. In the case of oxides such as Ti02 and Si02, can vary considerably with pretreatment and with the specific surface area [17, 20, 21]. Morimoto and co-workers report a considerable variation in q mm of ZnO with the degree of heat treatment (see Ref. 22). 

An interesting question that arises is what happens when a thick adsorbed film (such as reported at for various liquids on glass [144] and for water on pyrolytic carbon [135]) is layered over with bulk liquid. That is, if the solid is immersed in the liquid adsorbate, is the same distinct and relatively thick interfacial film still present, forming some kind of discontinuity or interface with bulk liquid, or is there now a smooth gradation in properties from the surface to the bulk region This type of question seems not to have been studied, although the answer should be of importance in fluid flow problems and in formulating better models for adsorption phenomena from solution (see Section XI-1). 

Alkanethiols and other sulfur-bearing hydrocarbons covalently attach to metal surfaces alkanethiol onto gold is the most widely studied of these systems [27-29,31,32,45]. These SAMs are ordered provided the alkane chain contains nine or more carbons [32]. Binary solutions of two alkanethiols also appear... 

Many solids have foreign atoms or molecular groupings on their surfaces that are so tightly held that they do not really enter into adsorption-desorption equilibrium and so can be regarded as part of the surface structure. The partial surface oxidation of carbon blacks has been mentioned as having an important influence on their adsorptive behavior (Section X-3A) depending on conditions, the oxidized surface may be acidic or basic (see Ref. 61), and the surface pattern of the carbon rings may be affected [62]. As one other example, the chemical nature of the acidic sites of silica-alumina catalysts has been a subject of much discussion. The main question has been whether the sites represented Brpnsted (proton donor) or Lewis (electron-acceptor) acids. Hall... 

As a final example, similar spectroscopy was carried out for CO2 physisorbed on MgO(lOO) [99]. Temperatures were around 80 K and equilibrium pressures, as low as 10 atm (at higher temperatures, CO2 chemsorbs to give surface carbonate). Here, the variation of the absorbance of the infrared bands with the polarization of the probe beam indicated that the surface CO2 phase was highly oriented. 

Some general points are the following. One precondition for a vertical step in an isotherm is presumably that the surface be sufficiently uniform that the transition does not occur at different pressures on different portions, with a resulting smearing out of the step feature. It is partly on this basis that graphitized carbon, BN, MgO, and certain other adsorbents have been considered to have rather uniform surfaces. Sharp LEED patterns are another indication. 

It is noted in Sections XVII-10 and 11 that phase transformations may occur, especially in the case of simple gases on uniform surfaces. Such transformations show up in q plots, as illustrated in Fig. XVU-22 for Kr adsorbed on a graphitized carbon black. The two plots are obtained from data just below and just above the limit of stability of a solid phase that is in registry with the graphite lattice [131]. 

The analysis is thus relatively exact for heterogeneous surfaces and is especially valuable for analyzing changes in an adsorbent following one or another treatment. An example is shown in Fig. XVII-24 [160]. This type of application has also been made to carbon blacks and silica-alumina catalysts [106a]. House and Jaycock [161] compared the Ross-Olivier [55] and Adamson-Ling... 

There has been a general updating of the material in all the chapters the treatment of films at the liquid-air and liquid-solid interfaces has been expanded, particularly in the area of contemporary techniques and that of macromolecular films. The scanning microscopies (tunneling and atomic force) now contribute more prominently. The topic of heterogeneous catalysis has been expanded to include the well-studied case of oxidation of carbon monoxide on metals, and there is now more emphasis on the flexible surface, that is, the restructuring of surfaces when adsorption occurs. New calculational methods are discussed. 

Tully J C 1980 Dynamics of gas-surface interactions reactions of atomic oxygen with adsorbed carbon on platinum J. Chem. Phys. 73 6333... 

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