Fuels, fossil spectroscopy

Formic acid irradiation of, 3 183 reaction with hydrogen atom, 3 191 Formylium cation, 9 231 Formylmethanofuran dehydrogenase, Methano-bacterium wolfei, 40 73 Fossil fuel, radiocarbon and, 3 311-312 Four-coordinated metal centers, 37 19 Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, NiFe hydrogenase, 47 295-298, 299, 303 Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance... 

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has proved to be of great value in fossil fuel research because it allows rapid and nondestructive determination of the total hydrogen content and distribution of hydrogen among the chemical functional groups present (Bartle and Jones, 1978 Retcofsky and Link, 1978 Petrakis and Edelheit, 1979 Snape et al., 1979 Davidson, 1980, 1986 Miknis, 1982, 1988 Calkins and Spackman, 1986 Cookson and Smith, 1987 Bartle,... 

Impedance spectroscopy is a valuable addition to the range of techniques for the electrical characterisation of materials and components, especially where interfaces (e.g. metallic electrode/cathode or anode materials) are involved. This is particularly so in the case of batteries and fuel cells, the subjects of the most intensive research and development stimulated by the need to develop power sources which reduce dependence on fossil fuels and their damage to the environment (see Section 4.5.1). 

Solid-state MAS NMR spectroscopy has had much success in examining amorphous insoluble polymers [59]. In recent years, however, there has been some debate on the reliability of quantitative data derived from CP experiments [60] and work on fossil fuels in particular has highlighted the problem [61,62]. Undoubtedly, the issues arise in the analysis of polymers as well [63-66]. While CP results in signal-to-noise enhancement and hence reduced accumulation times, carbon atoms present with no proximal protons tend to have their peak intensities reduced relative to other signals. Quaternary aromatic carbons are likely to suffer badly in this respect. The modulation of the dipolar interactions by the motion of some moieties can also introduce quantitative errors [67]. The rotation of the methyl group about its 3-fold axis of symmetry is a good example of this. Single pulse excitation (SPE) [60] however overcomes the problems that are associated with CP,... 

The application of and N.M.R. spectroscopy, gas chromatography (G.C.) and mass spectrometry (M.S.) in the separation and identification of alkanes extracted from fossil fuels is illustrated with three Turkish lignites (including one extracted by supercritical gas), coal tar and petroleum crude. Elution of hydrocarbons from a silica-gel column may be monitored by N.M.R. and molecular-sieve sub-fractionation into normals and branched/cyclics by G.C., together with... 

Over the last two decades, developments in G.C., mass spectrometry (M.S.), N.M.R. spectroscopy and other physical techniques have appreciably extended the ability of chemists to undertake detailed analyses of fractions extracted from coal and other fossil fuels. In this paper, we survey some of the characterization techniques for alkanes, emphasising particularly... 

Several spectroscopic methods have been used to monitor the levels of heavy metals in man, fossil fuels and environment. They include flame atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS), atomic emission spectroscopy (AES), graphite furnace atomic absorption sp>ectrometry (GFAAS), inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission sp>ectroscopy (ICP/AES), inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP/MS), x-ray fluorescence sp>ectroscopy (XRFS), isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS), electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAS) e.t.c. Also other spectroscopic methods have been used for analysis of the quality composition of the alternative fuels such as biodiesel. These include Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), Near infrared spectroscopy (NIR), inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) e.t.c. 

Y. Y. Wang and T. F. Yen, Application of Thin-Layer Chromatographic Identification of heavy Fractions of Fossil Fuels, ACS Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy. Pasadena (1989). 

TDLAS (and other optical spectroscopy) measurements and is of comparable dimensions to fully commercial units, allowing forrealistic feed with different mixtures of fossil fuels or domestic waste. In the measurements carried out by Ebert et al. (2003), the concentration of various species was monitored... 

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