Nickel Limit Test

Nickel Determine as directed under Nickel Limit Test, Appendix IIIB, using a 20-g sample. 

Anhydro-D-glucose, Glucose and Sorbitol Transfer 30 mg of sample, accurately weighed, into a screw-cap vial, and add about 2 mL of pyridine. While flushing the vial with a stream of dry air or nitrogen, heat at 80° to 90° until the solution volume is reduced to 0.2 to 0.5 mL. Add a second portion of pyridine, and repeat the evaporation procedure. Continue as directed in the monograph for Polydextrose. Nickel Determine as directed under Nickel Limit Test, Appendix IIIB. 

Cupro-nickel Not for oxidizing conditions (test if in doubt) concentration and temperature slightly limited... 

Uranium Short-term tests indicate that the practical upper limit for niobium as a container material for uranium is about 1 400°C . Niobium is dissolved in a uranium-bismuth alloy in less than lOOh at a temperature of 800°C". Uranium eutectics with iron, manganese or nickel, corroded niobium at 800°C and 1 000°C It is significantly attacked by uranium-chromium at 1 000°C . 

The successful application of nickel-chromium-iron alloys as structural components of industrial furnaces and as chambers and containers in chemical processing under conditions of exposure involving sulphur substantiates their good resistance to this form of corrosion. These materials are used for service temperatures in the range 750-1 200°C, the upper limit of serviceability being determined largely by the chromium content of a particular alloy. Results of corrosion tests (Table 7.24) on cast nickel-... 

Tests on a wide range of alloys at temperatures varying from 704 to 927°C have been made by Bernsen et al." to determine the temperature limits beyond which engineering materials carburise when held in contact with graphite. Table 7.27 lists the maximum penetrations of the carburised zones while nickel in general showed no visible evidence of carburisation the associated hardness measurements indicated solution of carbon even at 704°C. At this temperature the chromium-containing alloys showed little tendency to carburisation, but at 816°C carburisation leading to the formation of chromium carbide was rapid. 

Platinum-based catalysts are widely used in low-temperature fuel cells, so that up to 40% of the elementary fuel cell cost may come from platinum, making fuel cells expensive. The most electroreactive fuel is, of course, hydrogen, as in an acidic medium. Nickel-based compounds were used as catalysts in order to replace platinum for the electrochemical oxidation of hydrogen [66, 67]. Raney Ni catalysts appeared among the most active non-noble metals for the anode reaction in gas diffusion electrodes. However, the catalytic activity and stability of Raney Ni alone as a base metal for this reaction are limited. Indeed, Kiros and Schwartz [67] carried out durability tests with Ni and Pt-Pd gas diffusion electrodes in 6 M KOH medium and showed increased stability for the Pt-Pd-based catalysts compared with Raney Ni at a constant load of 100 mA cm and at temperatures close to 60 °C. Moreover, higher activity and stability could be achieved by doping Ni-Al alloys with a few percent of transition metals, such as Ti, Cr, Fe and Mo [68-70]. 

A feasibility study on the application of H-NMR petroleum product characterization to predict physicochemical properties of feeds and catalyst-feed interactions has been performed. The technique satisfactorily estimates many feed properties as well as catalyst-feed interactions to forecast products yield. There are, however, limitations that have to be understood when using the H-NMR method. The technique, in general, is not capable either to estimate the level of certain contaminants such as nitrogen, sulfur, nickel, and vanadium when evaluating feed properties or the effect of these contaminants on products yields while testing catalyst-feed interactions. 

There is limited evidence that stainless steel pots and utensils may release nickel into acid solution (lARC 1990). Six stainless steel pots of different origins were tested to see whether they would release nickel by boiling 350 mL of 5% acetic acid in them for 5 minutes (Kuligowski and Halperin 1992). 

According to the vendor, Cement-Lock technology has successfully removed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), PCBs, and tetrachlorodibenzo-1,4-dioxin (TCDD)/2,3,7,8-tetra-chlorodibenzofuran (TCDF) from soils and sediments in bench-scale tests. Metal concentrations were also reduced below detection limits in bench-scale tests. These metals included arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, nickel, mercury, and silver. 

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