JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
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2019
·Vol. 136
·期 46
·48237
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IF 2.188
Feng Gao,Yifang Mi,Xinlei Wu,Jun Yao,Qi Qi,Zhihai Cao
Stimuli-responsive polymeric nanogels hold great potential in biological applications. In this work, thermoresponsive polymeric nanogels were conveniently prepared through inverse miniemulsion polymerization of two monomers with a good biocompatibility, N -vinylcaprolactam and 2-methoxyethyl acrylate. A macromolecular crosslinker, poly(ethylene glycol) dimethacrylate (PEGDMA), was used to achieve a better thermoresponsiveness, compared with low-molecular-weight crosslinkers. The prepared poly( N -vinylcaprolactam- co -2-methoxyethyl acrylate) (poly(NVCL- co -MEA)) nanogels could be well redispersed in aqueous systems, displaying a reversible thermoresponsive transition behavior. The influences of the synthesis parameters including the emulsifier content, PEGDMA content, and monomer composition on the particle properties of poly(NVCL- co -MEA) nanogels both in inverse emulsions and in aqueous dispersions were systematically investigated. Furthermore, the impacts of the monomer composition and PEGDMA content on the thermoresponsiveness of poly(NVCL- co -MEA) nanogels were also studied. Promisingly, the introduction of MEA monomeric units to the copolymer chains only slightly reduced the thermoresponsiveness of poly(NVCL- co -MEA) nanogels. This feature allows to improve the biocompatibility of polymeric nanogels by using MEA as the comonomer without need to compromise the thermoresponsiveness of nanogels. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2019 , 136 , 48237.
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INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
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2019
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IF 3.375
Sen Liu,Hao Ling,Juan Lv,Hongxia Gao,Yanqing Na,Zhiwu Liang
The sulfolane was, surprisingly, found to be a universal phase-splitting solvent in a serial of aqueous primary alkanolamine solution for CO2 removal; the reaction product of carbamate and hydrophilicity of amine can be the key factor for triggering phase change; also, the phase change can have a significant effect on CO2 capture performance. To comprehensively understand the effect of phase change on absorption, stripping, and phase separation performance, MEA sulfolane-based solution was chosen as a typical biphasic system for investigation. First, the experimental results revealed that the phase change can dramatically decrease the absorption rate and lead to less CO2 capacity in absorption processes. Second, the enriched MEA in separated solution can substantially decrease the energy consumption for CO2 stripping but exorbitant concentration of MEA can significantly reduce the CO2 removal efficiency in a quasicycle of absorption and desorption processes. Third, the phase separation rate of emulsion of MEA/sulfolane solution can be obviously improved by the increasing temperature, and fortunately, the increasing temperature had less effect on miscible solubility of MEA and sulfolane in two separated phases. Finally, on consideration of the absorption rate, energy consumption, and phase separation rate, a new technological process was proposed for CO2 capture using primary alkanolamine sulfolane-based solution to achieve the goal of relative high CO2 removal efficiency and energy saving.
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APPLIED ENERGY
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2019
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IF 8.426
Xiaowen Zhang,Yufei Huang,Hongxia Gao,Xiao Luo,Zhiwu Liang,Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul
The extensive energy penalty of CO 2 -loaded solution regeneration is one of the most crucial challenges facing industrial application of amine-based CO 2 capture technology. Here, to decrease the energy requirement, the regeneration behaviors of the rich 5 M monoethanolamine (MEA) and 3 M MEA-2.5 M N-methyl-diethanolamine (MDEA)−0.5 M piperazine (PZ) tri-solvent blended amines (tri-blend) with four different solid acid catalysts (H-mordenite, Hβ, HZSM-5 and Al 2 O 3 ) were studied at 98 °C. For the catalyst-free tests, the results revealed that the tri-blend hugely enhanced the CO 2 desorption kinetics and reduced the relative energy consumption compared to 5 M MEA. Based on the results of 13 C NMR, the multiple proton transfer paths and abundant bicarbonate ions in the tri-blend contribute to the improved regeneration performance. Additionally, the use of catalyst further improved the CO 2 desorption activity of the tri-blend. The combination of Hβ and tri-blend presented the best regeneration performance, increasing the desorption performance by 1360.8%, and reducing the relative energy requirement by 66.1% compared with the blank run of MEA. In addition, a plausible catalytic mechanism of solvent regeneration over the solid acid catalyst in the tri-blend was suggested. The superior catalytic performance of Hβ resulted from the large mesoporous surface area, larger number of Brϕnsted acid sites and prominent total acid sites. Furthermore, Hβ displayed excellent stability and had no adverse influence on the CO 2 absorption activity. Results herein manifest that the combination of tri-blend amines with high-efficiency catalyst is exceptional strategy for tremendously decreasing the energy consumption of amine-based CO 2 capture processes, ultimately making this technology more technically and economically feasible.
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2019
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IF 5.107
Yifu Li,Li'ao Wang,Zhongchao Tan,Zhien Zhang,Xinyue Hu
Absorption and desorption of CO 2 using K 2 CO 3 solutions promoted by three amino acid salts (AASs), potassium glycinate (PG), potassium lysinate (PL) and potassium L-argininate (PA), were evaluated using 40% CO 2 at 40 °C and with pure N 2 at 80 °C, respectively. The addition of all 3 AASs clearly enhanced both absorption and desorption of CO 2 compared to single K 2 CO 3 solution. PA + K 2 CO 3 solution showed the highest CO 2 cyclic capacity of 0.678 mol CO 2 /mol absorbent, while the highest CO 2 absorption and desorption rates of 39.8 and 17.6 mol CO 2 L −1 s −1 were achieved by PG + K 2 CO 3 solution. Finally, simulated biogas containing 40% of CO 2 and 60% of CH 4 was used as test gas in a hollow fiber membrane contactor. PG and PA promoters presented higher CO 2 absorption flux and removal efficiency than PL promoters in K 2 CO 3 solution within low Gas/Liquid ratio region. Stable CO 2 removal performances for all three promoters were observed at elevated temperature and pressure for 60 min operation.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
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2023
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IF 4.7
Qinghai Long,Shuo Wang,Shufeng Shen
Maintaining water balance in water-lean solvents is drawing special attention as it may affect the capture performance and process stability. In this study, novel water-lean solvents containing ethylene glycol monohexyl ether (EGHE) and secondary alkanolamines was proposed for energy-saving postcombustion CO 2 capture. Excess water from wet flue gas can be discharged from the desorber overhead condensate which can produce a spontaneous phase-separation feature. Less than 0.8 mass% EGHE was observed in the water-rich phase of the biphasic condensate. Effect of water content in these absorbents on CO 2 capture performance was discussed. Most notably, regeneration energy consumption increased significantly as increasing water content in the absorbent. The proposed water-lean absorbents with 10 % H 2 O can reduce the regeneration heat duty by about 40% in comparison with aqueous MEA, indicating that the novel water balance design can make it competitive in a practical sense.
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2022
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IF 9.136
Yuchen Li,Zhen Chen,Bingling Yuan,Lei Xing,Guoxiong Zhan,Yue Peng,Lidong Wang,Junhua Li
Using waste red mud as catalysts for enhancing mass transfer and boosting amine-based solvent regeneration is a promising option for both resources recycling and efficient carbon capture. Here, the effect of fine red mud particles was firstly investigated on carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) absorption and desorption. The Brownian motion and shuttle effect of submicron or micron red mud particles play a positive role in reducing the concentration boundary layer and updating the CO 2 -species concentration of liquid/gas film, which is beneficial for mass transfer enhancement. Additionally, the composite metal oxides of red mud support abundant acid/base active sites for water dissociation, which can promote the proton transfer and boost carbamate decomposition. Therefore, the average enhancement factor is ∼1.49 and the average absorption rate increases by 22.8 %; while the maximal desorption rate (2.14 mmol/min) increases by 289 % and relative heat duty decreases by 16.3 %, after adding 2.5–5 % red mud particles. The continuous CO 2 absorption–desorption experiments verify red mud increases the capture efficiency from 51.6 % (blank test) to 62.4 %. The results offer a favorable technology for reuse of industrial solid waste in the field for low-energy carbon capture.
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Materials Research Express
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2019
·Vol. 6
·期 12
·125018
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IF 1.449
Hui Zou,Yi Wu,Caixia Yao,Shiqi Duan,Zhiyuan Liu,Zhengyu Yan,Shenghua Liao
A novel method for preparing CuInS2/ZnS quantum dots (CuInS2/ZnS QDs) with the crystal structure of sphalerite by one-pot hot injection was developed in this paper. The as-prepared core CuInS2 quantum dots (CuInS2 QDs) was uniform spherical nanoparticle with the average diameter of about 2 nm with the fluorescent quantum yields (QY) of about 2.6%. By capping a shell of ZnS on the surface of CuInS2 QDs, the formed CuInS2/ZnS QDs exhibited obvious enhanced fluorescent emission with the QY of about 20%. Intriguingly, the crystal structure of obtained CuInS2/ZnS QDs is sphalerite, which was confirmed by XRD. Considering the different terminal group between these small organic molecules, mercaptoacetic acid (TGA), thioglycerol (TGC) and mercaptoethylamine (MEA) were further selected as capping molecules to exchange the surface ligands of CuInS2/ZnS QDs. The obtained CuInS2/ZnS QDs modified with TGC exhibited excellent photostability in physiological conditions. To investigate the effect of ligand molecules on the biocompatible of CuInS2/ZnS QDs, the experiment on the cytotoxicity of CuInS2/ZnS QDs to A549 cells were conducted. The results indicated that CuInS2/ZnS QDs capped with TGC showed the lowest cytotoxicity while CuInS2/ZnS QDs capped with MEA exhibited the highest cytotoxicity among the three types of CuInS2/ZnS QDs modified with ligands with different terminal group. These results provided a sight on how to select surface ligands to modify CuInS2/ZnS QDs when CuInS2/ZnS QDs will apply in biological fields.
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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING DATA
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2017
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IF 2.323
Yangyang Bian,Yue Zhao,Shufeng Shen
Potassium prolinate + water + ethanol (ProK/W/Eth) solution has potential use as a liquid-to-solid phase-changing absorbent for energy-efficient CO2 capture process. In this study, the equilibrium solubility of CO2 in ProK/W/Eth solutions was measured in a stirred equilibrium cell at a temperature range from 293 to 343 K and CO2 partial pressures up to 200 kPa. Density and viscosity were also measured at temperatures from 293 to 333 K and ProK molality up to 6.09 mol·kg–1 ethanol. Moreover, the CO2 loading and cyclic capacity were compared with aqueous monoethanolamine (MEA) and aqueous ProK solution. The solubility data were well-represented using a Soft model with AAD within 8.0%. The data of density and viscosity were also correlated with empirical models. The predicted results matched well the experimental data with AAD within 0.37% for density and 1.38% for viscosity.
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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS
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2017
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IF 2.726
Shufeng Shen,Yue Zhao,Yangyang Bian,Yong Wang,Hui Guo,Hui Li
The solubility of CO 2 in aqueous potassium lysinate (LysK) solutions was measured in a stirred reactor at temperatures from 298 to 353 K, for 9.0, 17.4, 25.3, 33.1 and 41.2 mass% LysK and CO 2 partial pressures up to 110 kPa. The vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) data were interpreted using the modified Kent-Eisenberg model. The apparent equilibrium constants of carbamate hydrolysis and amino acid deprotonation were correlated as a function of temperature, CO 2 loading (expressed as mole CO 2 per mole LysK) and LysK concentration to fit the experimental solubility data. The proposed model satisfactorily predicted the VLE data for the H 2 O-LysK-CO 2 system, especially at moderate to high CO 2 loading, with an average absolute deviation within 3.2%. Liquid species in the CO 2 -loaded LysK solutions were also qualitatively characterized by 13 C NMR experiments.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2014
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L.W. Wang,F. Wu,D.X. Tian,W.J. Li,L. Fang,C.Y. Kong,M. Zhou
In this paper, Na-doped ZnO (NZO) thin films with doping contents of 3–30 at.% were synthesized on quartz glass substrates by sol–gel spin coating method. The structure, morphology, optical transmittance and photoluminescence properties of NZO films were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), atomic force microscope (AFM), UV–VIS spectrometer and fluorescence spectrophotometer, respectively. The results showed that all the NZO thin films exhibit a strong preferential c -axis orientation with a hexagonal polycrystalline structure. An apparent increase in crystallinity was observed with the increasing Na content. The surface of the heavily Na doped samples (30 at.%) exhibits nanorods morphology. The RMS roughness changed from 16.219 nm to 53.072 nm with the increase of Na concentrations. As Na doping content increases to 24 at.%, the average transmittance was still larger than 62% in the visible range. The optical band gap initially increased and then decreased nearly linearly with the increase of Na content. The refractive index of NZO films in the visible range was found to increase gradually with increasing Na dopants. Room temperature photoluminescence (PL) spectra showed sharp ultraviolet emissions centered at 388 nm and broad green–yellow emissions (450–650 nm). The violet emission centered at 424 nm appeared in the spectra of 30 at.% NZO. In addition, it was found that the low Na doping concentration contributed to the enhancement of I NBE / I DLE .
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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS
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2016
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Yaran Yin,Chunying Zhu,Youguang Ma
Densities and viscosities of binary {[Bmim][BF 4 ] + H 2 O}, {[Bmim][BF 4 ] + MEA}, (MEA + H 2 O) and ternary mixtures {[Bmim][BF 4 ] + MEA + H 2 O} were measured at T = (293.15–333.15) K. The volumetric and viscometric properties, such as excess molar volume V E , viscosity deviation Δ η , and excess Gibbs energy of activation of viscous flow Δ G ∗E for all mixtures, and apparent molar volume, excess partial molar volume and Grunberg-Nissan interaction parameter G 12 for binary mixtures, were deduced from experimental results, and the intermolecular interactions in solutions were also analysed. The excess molar volumes were correlated using the Redlich-Kister polynomial equation for binary mixtures, and Singh et al. equation for the ternary mixture with corresponding binary parameters. The viscosities of binary and ternary solutions were respectively fitted by Jouyban-Acree equation and its extended equation at each measurement temperature, the correlated values are in good agreement with the corresponding experimental data.
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ENERGY & FUELS
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2016
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IF 2.835
Shufeng Shen,Ya-nan Yang
The mass transfer and kinetics of CO2 absorption into aqueous potassium argininate (ArgK) solutions were investigated using a wetted-wall column at concentrations ranging from 0.26 to 1.23 M and temperatures from 298 to 333 K. Absorption rates of CO2 were compared by the absorption flux and a fall-in-pressure method among basic amino acid salts (AAS) and two amine standards for capture technology. Results showed that ArgK has comparable kinetics toward CO2 with the standard monoethanolamine (MEA) but lower kinetics than piperazine (PZ). The kinetic results were interpreted using two models based on zwitterion mechanism and termolecular mechanism for the reactive absorption of CO2. It was found that the partial reaction orders vary from 1.25 to 1.60 with respect to ArgK. Under the pseudo-first-order regime, the overall reaction rate constants were obtained and the individual reaction rate constants in these models were derived. The calculated values from two models agree well with the experimental data within 7.5% AAD.
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