Radiation, adsorption

The fraction of black-body radiation actually emitted by flames is called emissivity. Emissivity is determined first by adsorption of radiation by combustion products (including soot) in flames and second by radiation wavelength. These factors make emissivity modeling complicated. By assuming that a fire radiates as a gray body, in other words, that extinction coefficients of the radiation adsorption are independent of the wavelength, a fire s emissivity can be written as... 

The total radiation received by an object also depends on the fireball s position relative to the object (i.e., the view factor) and radiation adsorption by the atmosphere. 

Reverse osmosis Solvent extraction Ionizing radiation Adsorption Incineration Freezing Distillation Electrolysis Fungal treatment... 

Direct in situ X ray (from synchroton radiation) adsorption measurements (EXAFS) (Hayes et al., 1987, Brown et al., 1989) permit the determination of adsorbed species to neighboring ions and to central ions on oxide surfaces in the presence of water. Such investigations showed, for example, that selenite is inner-spherically and selenate is outer-spherically bound to the central Fe(lll) ions of a goethite surface. It was also shown by this technique that Pb(II) is inner-spherically bound to 5-AI2O3 (Chisholm-Brause et al., 1989). 

FTIR spectra were recorded with an Impact 410 (Nicolet) spectrometer. Powder X-ray diffraction data were obtained on a Siemens D 5005 diffractometer in the Bragg-Brentano geometry arrangement using CuKa radiation. Adsorption isotherms of nitrogen at -196 °C... 

Temperature (heat) is transferred from one body (or region) to another by three thermal processes, conduction, convection, and radiation-adsorption, or some combination of the three. 

The concentration-distance curves method is based on the measurement of the distribution of the diffusant concentration as a function of time. Light interference methods, as well as radiation adsorption or simply gravimetric methods, can be used for concentration measurements. Various sample geometries can be used, for example semiinflnite solid, two joint cylinders with the same or different material, and so on. The analysis is based on the solution of Pick s equation. 

The key reactant, the hydroxyl radical, OH, is formed by the radiolysis of water vapour. Concentrations of this key reactant are much lower in the gas phase than in die aqueous phase because of the higher density and higher radiation adsorption of water. Consequently, gas phase formation of organic iodides from molecular iodine is not usually an important process relative to the formation of organic iodides in the aqueous phase and partitioning of these iodides into the atmosphere. 

Infrared attenuated total reflection spectroscopy (IR-ATR). This method [10] can be used to study lipid bilayer membranes and peptides associated with them in the dry and in the hydrated states [11, 12]. Position and shape of the IR bands allow the detection of peptide secondary structures their orientation with respect to the lipid molecules can be determined with polarized radiation. Adsorption from and escape into the aqueous surroundings, penetration through the membranes, and exchange can easily be studied. 

The most widely used experimental method for determining surface excess quantities at the liquid-vapor interface makes use of radioactive tracers. The solute to be studied is labeled with a radioisotope that emits weak beta radiation, such as H, C, or One places a detector close to the surface of the solution and measures the intensity of beta radiation. Since the penetration range of such beta emitters is small (a ut 30 mg/cm for C, with most of the adsorption occurring in the first two-tenths of the range), the measured radioactivity corresponds to the surface region plus only a thin layer of solution (about 0.06 mm for C and even less for H). 

Flimpsel F J, McFeely F R, Morar J F, Taleb-lbrahimi A and Yarmoff J A 1990 Core level spectroscopy at silicon surfaces and interfaces Proc. Enrico Fermi School on Photoemission and Adsorption Spectroscopy and Interfaces with Synchrotron Radiation vo course CVIII, eds M Campagna and R Rose (Amsterdam Elsevier) p 203... 

Sinks, chemical species, or method OH, reaction with OH radical S, sedimentation P, precipitation scavenging NO, reaction with NO radical uv, photolysis by ultraviolet radiation Sr, destmction at surfaces O, adsorption or destmction at oceanic surface. 

For color removal, ozonization has achieved the greatest practical importance as seen by the plethora of articles and patents on this method (147—163). Ozonization in combination with treatments such as coagulation, flocculation, carbon adsorption, uv irradiation, gamma radiation, and biodegradation significantly and successfully remove dye wastes and reduce costs (156,164—170). 

Because silver, gold and copper electrodes are easily activated for SERS by roughening by use of reduction-oxidation cycles, SERS has been widely applied in electrochemistry to monitor the adsorption, orientation, and reactions of molecules at those electrodes in-situ. Special cells for SERS spectroelectrochemistry have been manufactured from chemically resistant materials and with a working electrode accessible to the laser radiation. The versatility of such a cell has been demonstrated in electrochemical reactions of corrosive, moisture-sensitive materials such as oxyhalide electrolytes [4.299]. 

Surface SHG [4.307] produces frequency-doubled radiation from a single pulsed laser beam. Intensity, polarization dependence, and rotational anisotropy of the SHG provide information about the surface concentration and orientation of adsorbed molecules and on the symmetry of surface structures. SHG has been successfully used for analysis of adsorption kinetics and ordering effects at surfaces and interfaces, reconstruction of solid surfaces and other surface phase transitions, and potential-induced phenomena at electrode surfaces. For example, orientation measurements were used to probe the intermolecular structure at air-methanol, air-water, and alkane-water interfaces and within mono- and multilayer molecular films. Time-resolved investigations have revealed the orientational dynamics at liquid-liquid, liquid-solid, liquid-air, and air-solid interfaces [4.307]. 

It is advantageous to use a low-retentivity carbon to enable the adsorbate to be stripped out easily. When empirical data are not available, the following heat requirements have to be taken into consideration (1) heat to the adsorbent and vessel, (2) heat of adsorption and specific heat of adsorbate leaving the adsorbent, (3) latent and specific heat of water vapor accompanying the adsorbate, (4) heat in condensed, indirect steam, (5) radiation and convection heat losses. 

NR, styrene-butadiene mbber (SBR), polybutadiene rubber, nitrile mbber, acrylic copolymer, ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer, and A-B-A type block copolymer with conjugated dienes have been used to prepare pressure-sensitive adhesives by EB radiation [116-126]. It is not necessary to heat up the sample to join the elastomeric joints. This has only been possible due to cross-linking procedure by EB irradiation [127]. Polyfunctional acrylates, tackifier resin, and other additives have also been used to improve adhesive properties. Sasaki et al. [128] have studied the EB radiation-curable pressure-sensitive adhesives from dimer acid-based polyester urethane diacrylate with various methacrylate monomers. Acrylamide has been polymerized in the intercalation space of montmorillonite using an EB. The polymerization condition has been studied using a statistical method. The product shows a good water adsorption and retention capacity [129]. 

Physical properties of the prepared catalysts were measured by an adsorption analyzer [Quantachrome Co., Autosorb-lC]. The structure of prepared catalysts were investigated by XRD [Simmazdu Co., XRD-6000] with a Cu-Ka radiation source (X = 1.54056 A), voltage of 40.0 kV, ciurent of 30.0 mA and scan speed of 5.0 deg/min. Also, temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) profiles of the samples were investigated by a sorption analyzer [Micromeritics Co., Autochem II] and obtained by heating the samples from room temperature to 1100°C at a rate of lOTl/min in a 5 % H2/Ar gas flow (50 ml/min). 

Specific surface areas of the catalysts used were determined by nitrogen adsorption (77.4 K) employing BET method via Sorptomatic 1900 (Carlo-Erba). X-ray difiraction (XRD) patterns of powdered catalysts were carried out on a Siemens D500 (0 / 20) dififactometer with Cu K monochromatic radiation. For the temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) experiments the catalyst (0.3 g) was pre-treated at diflferent temperatures (100-700 °C) under helium flow (5-20 Nml min ) in a micro-catalytic tubular reactor for 3 hours. The treated sample was exposed to methanol vapor (0.01-0.10 kPa) for 2 hours at 260 °C. The system was cooled at room temperature under helium for 30 minutes and then heated at the rate of 4 °C min . Effluents were continuously analyzed using a quadruple mass spectrometer (type QMG420, Balzers AG). 

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