Browsing by Subject "silica"
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(2014-11-12)Dissolved silica in water is notorious for precipitating on industrial equipment. Scale formation can occur within tubes of a boiler, heat exchangers, and cooling towers, turbine blades are susceptible to deposit formation, ...
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(2017-07-26)Biofuels produced from non-food lignocellulosic feedstocks have the potential to replace a significant percentage of fossil fuels via high yield potential and suitability for cultivation on marginal lands. Commercialization ...
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(2013-12-09)Understanding the adsorption of phosphine oxides on silica surfaces has a threefold incentive. (a) Efficiently removing phosphine oxides from reaction mixtures is crucial after many synthetic procedures, for example the ...
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(2014-04-16)We report the development of a new diffuse reflecting material with measured diffuse reflectivity values as high as 0.9992 at 532 nm, and 0.9969 at 266 nm. These values are, to the author’s best knowledge, the highest ...
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(2017-10-24)The overall goal of the first project of this thesis was to find ways to improve homogeneous catalysts and render them more recyclable and thus improve their lifetimes. One way to generate such superior catalysts is to ...