Influence of Waste Glass Powder as an Aluminosilicate Precursor in Synthesizing Ternary Blended Alkali-Activated Binder

Silicon - The formation of alkali-activated binders from industrial end products and landfill materials attracts considerable interest in construction technology since it diminishes the waste...     

An Effective Approach on Attaining Enhanced Silicon Solar Cell Performance Through Sputter Deposited Perovskite Thin Films

Silicon - Antireflection coatings (ARCs) have become one of the key techniques for mass production of Si solar cells. They are generally performed by vacuum processes such as thermal evaporation,...     

Effect of Back-and-Forth Transfer of Iron and Chromium in Formation of Coatings by Iodine Transport

Metal Science and Heat Treatment - Results of a study of transportation of chromium and iron by iodine at various temperatures of diffusion chromizing of armco iron are presented. The phase...     

Experimental Search for Chemical Compositions of Superelastic Titanium Alloys with Enhanced Functional Properties

Metal Science and Heat Treatment - Ti – Zr-based alloys with a high zirconium content prepared by vacuum-arc remelting with nonconsumable tungsten electrode are studied. The optimum number of...     

Modeling and Optimization of the Effect of Sintering Parameters on the Hardness of Copper/Graphene Nanosheet Composites by Response Surface Methodology

Metal Science and Heat Treatment - Composites obtained by powder metallurgy from a mixture of copper powders and graphene nanosheets are studied. The response surface methodology is used to design...     

Effects of microfabric on drillability of rocks

Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment - Quantifying the rock microfabric is one of the most important research interests and challenges in the field of rock drilling and excavation....     

Kinetics of the hydrotreatment of rapeseed oil fatty acid triglycerides under mild conditions

To establish principal regularities of the hydrotreatment of rapeseed oil fatty acid triglycerides (FATs), the kinetics of this process has been studied at temperatures of 300–380°C, contact times of 0.38–0.10 h, and a hydrogen pressure of 1.0 MPa in a flow fixed-bed reactor. The process is performed over nonsulfided nickel catalysts, which are of great practical interest for the production of green diesel. The kinetic scheme of the process with consideration for target products (alkanes) and all oxygen-containing by-products has been proposed. The quantitative estimate, which enables the prediction of the composition of products for other process conditions, has been obtained for the principal paths of the hydrotreatment of rapeseed oil FATs.     

Polymerization of propylene in liquid monomer using state-of-the-art high-performance titanium-magnesium catalysts

A comparative study of propylene polymerization in liquid monomer is performed under laboratory conditions using the IK-8-21 Ti-Mg catalyst designed at the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis and imported industrial catalysts (conditionally labeled TMC-1, -2, and -3). The activity and stereospecificity of the catalysts are estimated along with properties of the resulting polypropylene (granular composition and physicomechanical characteristics). It is shown that the IK-8-21 catalyst is not inferior to imported counterparts in terms of catalytic properties in the synthesis of polypropylene. The polypropylene powder formed on IK-8-21 is homogeneous and has good morphology. The physicomechanical characteristics of polypropylene synthesized on the domestic IK-8-21 catalyst are similar to those for polypropylene prepared with the imported TMK-1 catalyst.     

Pitting Corrosion of Carbon Steel in Chloride-Containing Saturated Ca(OH)2 Solutions

Protection of Metals and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces - Pitting formation in carbon steel in saturated Ca(OH)2 solutions containing different concentrations of added NaCl is studied...