CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2024
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Ning Yu,Ting Wang,Cheng-Xu Xu,Xue Gou,Ying-Jiao Zhan,Wenli An,Zhi-Cheng Fu,Jinni Deng,Hai-Bo Zhao,Ming-Jun Chen
Rigid polyurethane foam (RPUF), a commonly employed thermal insulation material in buildings, is highly flammable, however, incorporating flame-retardant additives or fillers is significantly limited by their incompatibility, low effectiveness and negative impact on thermal insulation properties. Herein, a novel and simple interfacial bonding and in-situ packing strategy has been proposed to introduce self-intumescent biomass aerogel particles into RPUF. The result aerogel/RPUF composite manifested continuous and “sea-island” pore structures with a firm bonding interface between aerogel and RPUF due to the highly reactive activity between biomass chains (amino and hydroxyl groups) and isocyanate. Benefitting from the intricate thermal conductive paths and enhanced interface resistance, introducing aerogel particles can reduce the thermal conductivity from 36.5 mW·m −1 ·K −1 (RPUF) to 28.6 mW·m −1 ·K −1 , dropped by 21.6 %. Moreover, the aerogel/RPUF composite manifested excellent flame retardancy with a limiting oxygen index of 28 %, a significantly reduced peak heat release rate (−38.0 %) and smoke production (−54.0 %), as well as enhanced compressive strength (+93.7 %). This work provided new insight into fabricating RPUF composites with integrated advantages of high flame-retardant efficiency and outstanding thermal insulation.
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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
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2024
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Han Jia,Qiang Wang,Hui Yan,Guopeng Wu,Jiaxin Li,Zhihao Shen,Han Sun,Pingan Pei,Haidong Jia,Dexin Liu
The ionic liquids (ILs) are regarded as the ideal candidate for the novel and high-efficiency corrosion inhibitors. While the cost problem caused by relatively large dosage limited the wide employments of conventional ILs. In the current study, we synthesized two novel phosphorus-based ionic liquids (PBILs) with different alkyl chain length (dodecyltriphenylphosphonium bromide (C 12 TPB) and cetyltriphenylphosphonium bromide (C 16 TPB)), and evaluated their anticorrosion efficiencies for mild steel (MS) in 1 M HCl aqueous solution by weight loss measurement, scanning electron microscope, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and electrochemical test. The results revealed that PBILs performed excellently (inhibition efficiencies > 93 %) at a very low concentration of 10 μM, which was much greater than those for traditional imidazole and pyridine ionic liquids at 500 μM. It was demonstrated that PBILs could adsorb on the metal surface to form the protective film, which should be mixed corrosion inhibitors with cathodic advantage. Then the adsorption study and molecular dynamics simulation confirmed that their special molecular structure highly promoted the intensity of the adsorption film mainly caused by the chemical adsorption. This study provided a novel approach for the structural design and development of high-performance IL corrosion inhibitors.
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Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy
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2024
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Jiao Xie,Huiqun Wang,Tingyuan Ren,Qijian Zheng,Mengxue Chen
Due to the low purity of natural ellagic acid, its clinical application has been less reported. Currently, blueberry pomace is discarded as processing waste. However, it is rich in ellagic acid and a good raw material for producing high-purity ellagic acid. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate an optimal horizontal combination scheme for producing of high-purity ellagic acid by antisolvent precipitation using crude ellagic acid extracted from blueberry pomace. Solvent screening results indicated that n-methylpyrrolidone had the highest ellagic acid solubility. Single-factor analysis showed that the oscillation speed, reaction time, crystallization temperature and antisolvent-to-solvent ratio had significantly affected ellagic acid purity, but solid-liquid ratio had little effect. A Box-Behnken-Centre combined design was used to determine the optimal combined scheme. The results showed that at a solvent concentration of 20 mg/mL, the optimal parameters were crystallization temperature 21.1 °C, reaction time 11.2 min, volume ratio of 15.6:1 antisolvent to solvent and oscillation speed of 144 r/min. Under these conditions, ellagic acid purity was 96.63%, relative standard deviation (RSD) was 1.20%, and recovery rate was 69.60%. Fourier transform infrared analysis showed that the spectral peak of purified ellagic acid matched that of the standard. In summary, the antisolvent precipitation method greatly improved the purity of ellagic acid extracted from blueberry pomace, which is not only conducive to the resource recycling, but also provides a theoretical basis for the production of high-purity ellagic acid and the possibility of expanding the application scope of ellagic acid in pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals.
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ChemSusChem
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2024
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Yu Chen,Yaxue Shen,Zicheng Liu,Mingshuai Yang,Yuqing Zhang,Zihang Niu,Yanlong Wang,Minghui Feng,Zhuojia Shi
Graphical Natural low-melting mixture solvents could be used to achieve mild, safe and efficient recovery of all-solid-state electrolyte and cathode from all-solid-state sodium-ion batteries with high selectivity. Moreover, water is found to be the green and low-cost anti-solvent to precipitate the extracted metal from the leachate with low-energy consumption at room temperature. Spent all-solid-state sodium-ion batteries (ASIBs) containing toxic and precious metal would be produced significantly and lead to resource waste and environmental pollution as the wide application of ASIBs in the near future. Therefore, it is necessary to develop green strategy for recovery of ASIBs. Here, we propose a safe, mild and green strategy to recover toxic and precious metals from cathode/solid electrolyte of ASIBs by using natural low-melting mixture solvents (LoMMSs) with high selectivity and high leaching efficiency. Natural LoMMSs are abundant, natural available, cheap, non-flammable, biodegradable and biocompatible. Results show that natural LoMMSs could leach nearly 100 % Na and achieve superhigh Na/Zr selectivity of up to 58 from ASIBs at mild temperature, outperforming the recycling efficiency and selectivity of lithium-ion batteries cathode. More importantly, we find that water could be used as a green and low-cost anti-solvent to precipitate the extracted metal from the leachate with low-energy consumption at room temperature. This work provides a cost-effective, energy-saving, mild, green strategy for the recovery of cathode/solid electrolyte from spent ASIBs with high safety and high selectivity.
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2024
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Haorong Li,Yang Pan,Bo Liang,Dahu Yao,Xiping Gao,Jing Chen,Chang Lu,Xinchang Pang
Waste carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have always been a potential threat to the environment and biological health. However, the efficient recycling and utilization of CNTs has received little attention. Here, we used chemically cross-linked polyacrylamide (PAM) particles to adsorb waste CNTs in water to prepare PAM@CNT core-shell particles, which were blended with thermoplastic styrene-butadiene rubber (SBS) to prepare flexible composites. The concentration of residual CNTs in the supernatant was less than 3.5 μg mL −1 , which meets the safety standards for discharge. The unique core-shell structure enables the composites with a thickness of 1 mm to exhibit high electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness (53.3 dB) and low reflectivity (1.4 dB) at 30 wt% CNT content. In addition, at a CNT content of 10 wt%, the composites exhibit superior sensing properties concerning strain and solvents. Moreover, the composites prepared from different sources of waste CNTs have the same sensing properties. This work provides an effective strategy for the highly efficient recycling of waste CNTs for the preparation of green, high-performance multifunctional polymer composites for EMI shielding , human motion and solvent leakage monitoring, and solvent category differentiation.
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2024
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Li-Zhi Huang,Xiang Zhan,Weiguo Chen,Changye Li,Liandong Zhu,Yitao Dai,Jia Deng
Carbon tetrachloride (CT), a common persistent pollutant in groundwater, has attracted widespread attention from environmental researchers. The dechlorination from CT to combustible hydrocarbons not only represents the removal of contaminants, but also offers the possibility of recovering carbon resources from water. In this work, we used the coprecipitation of Fe(II) and Pd(II) to synthesize Pd-Fe hydroxides for the dechlorination of CT. When Pd and Fe dosages were 0.4 and 5 mM respectively, CT with 26 µM concentration can be fast removed within 5 min, and 43.3 % of CH 4 and 11.6 % of C 2 H 6 (mol%) were generated after 110 min. The alkaline condition was more conducive to the complete dechlorination of CT comparing with acidic and neutral conditions. During the olation process, Fe(II) as electron donor transferred electrons to Pd(II) to form Pd(0) clusters. Pd(0) active sites act on the binding of CT and transfer electron to H + /H 2 O to form adsorbed atomic hydrogen (H ads •). The adsorbed CT molecules on the surface of Pd-Fe hydroxides undergo continuous dechlorination to form CH 4 and C 2 H 6 through the attack of H ads • and direct electron transfer. In real groundwater applications, CT was rapidly removed, with CH 4 and C 2 H 6 yields reaching 24.5 % and 4.6 % (mol%), respectively. Encouragingly, incomplete dechlorinated products, including chloroform and dichloromethane, did not show signs of subsequent rebound even after 60 min. Furthermore, Pd-Fe hydroxides also exhibit resistance to the oxidation effects of dissolved oxygen, which demonstrates the promising application prospects.
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JOURNAL OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS
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2024
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Yutao Feng,Junyang Zhu,Hailong Cui,Ziyi Lu,Jinglong Li,Ying Wang,Chengqi Jiao,Xiaoqing Xiong
Supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO 2 ) was selected as the medium for the synthesis and dyeing of four naphthalimide dyes (Y-1, Y-2, Y-3, and Y-4). They were synthesized through the reaction of 4-bromo-1,8-naphthalene dianhydride with various amines. These dyes demonstrated good photophysical properties and thermal stability, aligning with the prerequisites for scCO 2 dyeing. Consequently, the scCO 2 dyeing of polyester fabrics using these four dyes was investigated, and the optimal dyeing conditions were established in the range of 18 20 MPa, 120 130℃, and 80 90 min. Surface analysis confirmed the uniform distribution of the dyes on the fabrics, with no significant damage to the fabric structure under the dyeing conditions. Additionally, the dyed fabrics exhibited good color fastness to soap washing and friction with level 4 or above. Overall, the clean preparation and dyeing of naphthalimide dyes hold promise for reducing environmental pollution.
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MOLECULES
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2024
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Qianchun Zhang,Xixi Long,Shan Tang,Li Jiang,Zhaoru Ban,Yanju Chen,Runkun Zhang
A simple, rapid, and reliable method for detecting harmful gases is urgently required in environmental security fields. In this study, a highly effective cataluminescence sensor based on SiO 2 /MIL-53(Al) composites was developed to detect trace isobutylaldehyde. The sensor was designed using isobutylaldehyde to generate an interesting cataluminescence phenomenon in SiO 2 /MIL-53(Al). Under optimized conditions, a positive linear relationship was observed between the signal intensity of the cataluminescence and isobutylaldehyde concentration. The isobutylaldehyde concentration range of 1.55–310 ppm responded well to the sensing test, with an excellent correlation coefficient of 0.9996. The minimum detectable concentration signal-to-noise ratio ( S/N = 3) was found to be 0.49 ppm. In addition, the sensor was effectively utilized for analyzing trace isobutylaldehyde; the analysis resulted in recoveries ranging from 83.4% to 105%, with relative standard deviations ( RSDs ) of 4.8% to 9.4%. Furthermore, the mechanism of cataluminescence between SiO 2 /MIL-53(Al) and isobutylaldehyde was explored using GC–MS analysis and density functional theory. We expect that this cataluminescence methodology will provide an approach for the environmental monitoring of isobutylaldehyde.
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2024
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Zhecun Wang,Jinghan Zhang,Yubing Shao,Zhanyuan Cui,Yali Zhao,Yan Zhang
The Janus membranes with asymmetric wettability can gate oil or water transport spontaneously and directionally to facilitate the liquids transport for oil/water emulsions separation without extra energy consumption, which have attracted wide attention. However, this single-functioned either oil or water removal Janus membranes can only separate one type of emulsions and cannot meet the requirements in complex environments. Herein, a bi-functional Janus mesh membrane with selective directional oil- and water-transport integration induced by direction-directed dual asymmetric wettability is demonstrated for energetic-efficient on-demand separation of oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsion. An ingenious double single-side asymmetric modification strategy is proposed to make a homogenous mesh membrane with special Janus interface, where one surface features oleophobicity and hydrophilicity while the other shows superhydrophobicity and oleophilicity. This direction-directed wettability imbalance gives rise to the selective directional both water and oil transport property, namely , one surface directionally transports oil and block water. In contrast, the other surface suspends the oil and directionally transports water across the membrane. According to this property, this multifunctional Janus mesh membrane achieves high-performance on-demand oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions separation without extra energy consumption.
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RENEWABLE ENERGY
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2024
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Cuicui Wu,Meng Wang,Yunming Fang
The productive motivation of high-energy-density fuels from sustainable feedstocks has been prompted by environmental concerns and resource scarcities. To address this demand, here, the energy-rich C10 cycloalkanes were first afforded with biomass-derived 2-cyclopentenone (2CPE). Initially, bio-based 2CPE can be converted to tricyclo-diketones by (2 + 2) cycloaddition under UV irradiation or zeolite catalysis. The UV-light photocatalysis for dimerization of 2CPE to diketol-cycloadducts disclosed outstanding advantages of cost-effectiveness and feasibility than traditional zeolite-catalyzed manner, with a yield of 53.61 % at ambient temperature for 2 h. Despite the potential for high dimer yield (77.28 %) under thermo-catalysis of H-ZSM-5 zeolite, the reaction conditions (120 °C, 18 h) were found to be suboptimal. Subsequently, diketol-cycloadducts were selectively and efficiently hydrodeoxygenated to provide cyclopentane-based hydrocarbons using a Huang-Minlon methodology with a yield of 97.04 %, where the target components were directly distilled during the reaction. Specifically, the as-synthesized C10 cycloalkane mixture originated from 2CPE possess high density of 0.96 g mL −1 , large volumetric heat net of combustion (NHOC) of 40.02 MJ L −1 , along with low freezing point of −49 °C. These properties suggest that the bio-liquid cycloalkanes can be used as a standalone high-energy fuel or as a blending agent to enhance the performance of conventional jet fuels.
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APPLIED ENERGY
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2017
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Tao Wang,Wei Yu,Yann Le Moullec,Fei Liu,Yili Xiong,Hui He,Jiahui Lu,Emily Hsu,Mengxiang Fang,Zhongyang Luo
Using an inert, immiscible organic component as the purging gas is an innovative technology in the CO 2 stripping process. It allows stripping at a lower temperature and overcomes the inherent problem of high energy consumption in steam-based CO 2 stripping processes. This work focused on developing a novel, direct non-aqueous gas stripping process and exploiting its potential for energy saving through experiments. An elaborate pre-screening of carrier gases was conducted through hydrocarbon, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and their isomers, etc. Pentane, hexane, and cyclohexane were selected as the carrier candidates for their good immiscibility with water/amine, low vaporization energy, mild condensation conditions, and low toxicity. The effects of carrier gas category, carrier gas flow rate , and rich solvent feeding temperature on the stripping performance were investigated. Pentane was found to be the superior carrier gas due to its low heat of vaporization, high regeneration rate, and low energy requirement. A unique phenomenon of water evaporation from the solvent was discovered in the organic gas stripping process, providing a promising approach to break the gas-liquid interface for enhanced diffusion kinetics . The feasibility of low temperature CO 2 stripping was analyzed by varying the rich solvent feeding temperature (70–100 °C). With pentane as the stripping gas, it was interesting to find an optimum rich-feed temperature lower than 90 °C, indicating great potential for a reduction in the overall energy requirement. Under the optimal conditions, the energy consumption during CO 2 regeneration, using pentane as the carrier gas, was 2.38 GJ/t CO 2 , 38.8% lower than that of the conventional stripping process. Furthermore, parasitic issues, such as water loss and solvent loss, were discussed. An improved direct non-aqueous gas stripping process with two-stage compression was used to tackle the carrier gas recovery problem. The simulation results show that more than 98% of the carrier gas can be recovered through preliminary separation approaches.
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Analytical Methods
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2017
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Xiangyu Wang,Huihui Wu,Rongying Luo,Donghai Xia,Zhengjin Jiang,Hai Han
D-amino acids are currently paid attention to as new physiologically active substances. Foodstuffs and beverages containing D-amino acids are a matter of interest. Until now, the profiles of D-amino acids have not been reported in natural and fermented teas except theanine. In this study, an off-line 2D-HPLC method combining a Gemini C18 column and a CHIRALPAK® IC-3 column or a self-prepared poly(MQD-co-HEMA-co-EDMA) monolithic capillary column was employed for the separation and detection of D-amino acids in tea samples with the co-existence of a large amount of L-amino acids. The free amino acid fractions in longjing, black, oolong, and pu-erh tea samples were separated and collected after pre-column derivatization using 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl (FMOC) chloride in the reversed-phase mode, and then were concentrated and separated to D- and L-forms on a chiral column. Among them, the D-form of isoleucine (Ile) (1.0–1.6%), alanine (Ala) (0.1–0.8%), phenylalanine (Phe) (0.1–0.4%), valine (Val) (0.2–0.3%), serine (Ser) (0.1–0.2%), aspartic acid (Asp) (0.2%), and proline (Pro) (0.1%) were detected in longjing and oolong teas. Differences between natural tea and fermented tea in the profiles of D-amino acids as well as the total amino acids were also observed. The results provided useful information for the bio-function research of D-amino acids in tea.
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