The increasing use of heavy metals, dyes, and other metallic or chemical elements causes crucial environmental pollution. Sewage that contains these heavy metals and dyes is discharged into the atmosphere and goes directly into the food cycle, causing cancerous diseases and health deterioration in living organisms. The supreme concern of today’s research is to treat wastewater and effectively remove the hazardous dye molecules from aqueous media and other environmental matrices. Nowadays, technologies are applied to rectify organic and inorganic pollutants from sewage. Among them, adsorption is a fascinating way because it is environmentally friendly, feasible, and economical biomaterials. Chitosan (CS) as bio-sorbent is endowed with valuable characteristics, such as biodegradability, biocompatibility, high reactivity, low-cost, and functional groups (–OH and NH2) on its surface. CS is used for many applications, either as a single component or composite form. The use of CS as bio-adsorbents is beneficial over regular adsorbents. Chitosan-based hydrogel is one of the very important bio-adsorbents. All these bio-adsorbents are highly used to eradicate toxic dyes, digest harmful industrial sewage, and eliminate pesticides, climatic hazardous waste, and contaminated materials from the environment.
Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) of crude oil has not been reported widely in the literature and it is one of the most challenging tasks in the petroleum refining industry. In order to obtain useful models for HDS process that can be confidently applied to reactor design, operation and control, the accurate estimation of kinetic parameters of the relevant reaction scheme are required. In this work, an optimization technique is used in order to obtain the best values of kinetic parameters in trickle-bed reactor (TBR) process used for hydrodesulfurization (HDS) of crude oil based on pilot plant experiment. The optimization technique is based on minimization of the sum of the square errors (SSE) between the experimental and predicted concentrations of sulfur compound in the products using two approaches (linear (LN) and non-linear (NLN) regressions).A set of experiments were carried out in a continuous flow isothermal trickle-bed reactor using crude oil as a feedstock and the commercial cobalt–molybdenum on alumina (Co–Mo/γ-Al2O3) as a catalyst. The reactor temperature was varied from 335 to 400 °C, the hydrogen pressure from 4 to 10 MPa and the liquid hourly space velocity (LHSV) from 0.5 to 1.5 h−1, keeping constant hydrogen to oil ratio (H2/oil) at 250 L/L.A steady-state heterogeneous model is developed based on two-film theory, which includes mass transfer phenomena in addition to many correlations for estimating physiochemical properties of the compounds. The hydrodesulfurization reaction is described by Langmuir–Hinshelwood kinetics. gPROMS software is employed for modelling, parameter estimation and simulation of hydrodesulfurization of crude oil in this work. The model simulations results were found to agree well with the experiments carried out in a wide range of the studied operating conditions. Following the parameter estimation, the model is used to predict the concentration profiles of hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide and sulfur along the catalyst bed length in gas, liquid and solid phase, which provides further insight of the process. 相似文献
The dynamics of a gas‐solid fluidized bed containing Geldart Group D particles mixed with a small proportion of Geldart Group B particles are investigated using pressure fluctuations data. Time series analysis, using a variety of nonlinear dynamics tools, shows that the slugging present with Group D particles can be suppressed by the addition of a small proportion of Group B particles. The power spectra and the auto‐correlation function are used for a preliminary evaluation of dominant slug frequencies. It is shown that the bed fluidized with the mixture of Group D and B particles behaves in a less periodic manner and is dominated by more random bubble motion. On the other hand, the correlation integral is used to analyze the chaotic behaviour of the flow, through evaluation of the fractal structure of the reconstructed attractors. It is shown that the bed fluidized with Group D particles is characterized by a combination of steady slug motion and irregular particles motion. The behaviour of the fluidized bed of Group D/B particles mixture is characterized by a single correlation dimension for a wide range of fluidization velocities. 相似文献
Previous works devoted to the development of the swirl flow generated by rotation of the marine screw impeller in the loop toroidal reactor show that the flow structure is characterized by the existence of a secondary flow. The deformation of the axial velocity profile, due to the bends curvature and the rotation of the agitator, modify considerably the friction and the transfer near the wall. The objective of this work is to study the toroidal flow and to characterize the wall turbulence. The wall shear stress distribution in the torus were performed by using an electrochemical method. The measurements of the wall shear stress were carried out in the inner and outer walls. The evolution of the wall velocity gradient with the longitudinal distance depends on the location in the torus. These results allow to obtain information about the friction factor, which is compared with the one measured directly by using piezometric connections. The experimental determination of the axial dispersion coefficient is obtained by using the dispersion plug flow model with a total recirculation. Finally, a relationship between the turbulent characteristics and the mixing parameters has been established. 相似文献
Doxorubicin-loaded micelles were prepared from a copolymer comprising cholic acid (CA) and polyethyleneimine (PEI) for the delivery of antitumor drugs. The CA-PEI copolymer was synthesized via pairing mediated by N,N’-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide and N-hydroxysuccinimide using dichloromethane as a solvent. Fourier transform infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance analyses were performed to verify the formation of an amide linkage between CA and PEI and doxorubicin localization into the copolymer. Dynamic light scattering and transmission electron microscopy studies revealed that the copolymer could self-assemble into micelles with a spherical morphology and an average diameter of <200 nm. The CA-PEI copolymer was also characterized by X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry. Doxorubicin-loaded micelles were prepared by dialysis method. A drug release study showed reduced drug release with escalating drug content. In a cytotoxicity assay using human colorectal adenocarcinoma (DLD-1) cells, the doxorubicin-loaded CA-PEI micelles exhibited better antitumor activity than that shown by doxorubicin. This is the first study on CA-PEI micelles as doxorubicin carriers, and this study demonstrated that they are promising candidates as carriers for sustained targeted antitumor drug delivery system. 相似文献
This work is based on formulating and optimizing controlled release (CR) valsartan (160 mg) tablets using different viscosity grades of the cellulosic polymer. The objective was to develop an effective once-daily drug delivery system of this cardiovascular agent. Central composite design was used for designing the formulations. Polymers used were Methocel® K4M, K15M and K100M. Compatibility of excipients with active was studied through FT-IR. Micromeritic properties were determined and formulations exhibiting appropriate flow characteristics were compressed. Swelling behavior and in vitro buoyancy effect were studied and response surface curves were constructed to optimize the formulation. Multi-point dissolution profiles of valsartan CR tablets at pH 1.2, 4.5 and 6.8 were obtained. Model-dependent and model-independent methods were performed including f2, stability test as per ICH guidelines and ANOVA. FT-IR studies revealed the compatibility of valsartan with all excipients. Formulation K4T9 (containing 25% K4M polymer) was selected to be the best optimized trial, based on physical properties and controlled release profile (23% at 4 h, 82% at 16 h and 100% at 24 h). Results of buoyancy and swelling behavior indicated that HPMC-K4M polymer exhibited excellent floating lag time and swelling indexes. In vitro drug release kinetics showed that formulation K4T9 displayed Korsmeyer–Peppas drug release pattern with r value > 0.99. The manufacturing process of K4T9 was also found to be reproducible with a shelf life period of 41 and 36 months at room temperature and accelerated conditions, respectively. Valsartan CR matrix-based formulation was successfully prepared with Methocel K4M retardant. 相似文献