Low temperature plasma-catalytic NOx synthesis in a packed DBD reactor: effect of support materials and supported active metal oxides

Patil, B.S.; Cherkasov, N.; Lang, J.; Ibhadon, A.O.; Hessel, V.; Wang, Q.

doi:10.1016/j.apcatb.2016.04.055

Influence of antenna selection on spectrum occupancy measurements in the context of cognitive radio (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mehdawi, M., Riley, N. G., Fanan, A., & Ammar, M. (2016, November). Influence of antenna selection on spectrum occupancy measurements in the context of cognitive radio. Presented at 24th Telecommunications Forum, TELFOR 2016

© 2016 IEEE. Cognitive radio (CR) has been proposed as a solution to the spectrum scarcity problem, which is aggravated by emergence of bandwidth-hungry and feature-rich wireless applications. Selection of appropriate antennas for cognitive radio app... Read More about Influence of antenna selection on spectrum occupancy measurements in the context of cognitive radio.

A techno-economic comparison of Fischer–Tropsch and fast pyrolysis as ways of utilizing sugar cane bagasse in transportation fuels production. (2017)
Journal Article
Michailos, S., Parker, D., & Webb, C. (2017). A techno-economic comparison of Fischer–Tropsch and fast pyrolysis as ways of utilizing sugar cane bagasse in transportation fuels production. Chemical engineering research & design : transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, 118, 206-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cherd.2017.01.001

Due to limited biomass availability, the establishment of optimal route biofuel value chains (one conversion route for each feedstock) is a key prerequisite for a feasible bioenergy sector. This way, biorefineries can take advantage of the economies... Read More about A techno-economic comparison of Fischer–Tropsch and fast pyrolysis as ways of utilizing sugar cane bagasse in transportation fuels production..

Tailored mesoporous silica supports for Ni catalysed hydrogen production from ethanol steam reforming (2016)
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Parlett, C. M., Aydin, A., Durndell, L. J., Frattini, L., Isaacs, M. A., Lee, A. F., Liu, X., Olivi, L., Trofimovaite, R., Wilson, K., & Wu, C. (2017). Tailored mesoporous silica supports for Ni catalysed hydrogen production from ethanol steam reforming. Catalysis communications, 91, 76-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catcom.2016.12.021

Mesoporous silica supported Ni nanoparticles have been investigated for hydrogen production from ethanol steam reforming. Ethanol reforming is structure-sensitive over Ni, and also dependent on support mesostructure; three-dimensional KIT-6 possessin... Read More about Tailored mesoporous silica supports for Ni catalysed hydrogen production from ethanol steam reforming.

Comparative Analysis of Synthetic Natural Gas versus Hydrogen Production from Bagasse (2016)
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Michailos, S., Parker, D., & Webb, C. (2017). Comparative Analysis of Synthetic Natural Gas versus Hydrogen Production from Bagasse. Chemical Engineering & Technology, 40(3), 546-554. https://doi.org/10.1002/ceat.201600424

A rigorous and comparative evaluation of two biomass-to-gases (BtG) conversion routes was performed and, according to this outcome, it is suggested which of the options evaluated is most desirable. These options, the hydrogen and synthetic natural ga... Read More about Comparative Analysis of Synthetic Natural Gas versus Hydrogen Production from Bagasse.

Effect of pressure on the efficiency of nickel and nickel-copper catalysts in decomposition of methane (2016)
Journal Article
Kuvshinov, G. G., Popov, M. V., Tonkodubov, S. E., & Kuvshinov, D. G. (2016). Effect of pressure on the efficiency of nickel and nickel-copper catalysts in decomposition of methane. Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry / Zhurnal Prikladnoi Khimii, 89(11), 1777-1785. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1070427216110070

Methane decomposition into hydrogen and nanofibrous carbon in the presence of high-percentage catalysts (70–90)% Ni–(0–20)% Cu–10% Al at a temperature of 948 K and pressures of 1 to 5 atm was studied in order to develop a technology for enrichment of... Read More about Effect of pressure on the efficiency of nickel and nickel-copper catalysts in decomposition of methane.

Development of Fe-promoted Ni-Al catalyst for hydrogen production from gasification of wood sawdust (2016)
Journal Article
Dong, L., Wu, C., Ling, H., Shi, J., Williams, P. T., & Huang, J. (2017). Development of Fe-promoted Ni-Al catalyst for hydrogen production from gasification of wood sawdust. Energy and Fuels, 31(3), 2118-2127. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b02050

The production of renewable hydrogen enriched gas from biomass waste is a promising technology for the development of a sustainable economy and society. Until now, there are still challenges of the technology in terms of the efficiency of hydrogen pr... Read More about Development of Fe-promoted Ni-Al catalyst for hydrogen production from gasification of wood sawdust.

Promoting hydrogen production and minimizing catalyst deactivation from the pyrolysis-catalytic steam reforming of biomass on nanosized NiZnAlOx catalysts (2016)
Journal Article
Dong, L., Wu, C., Ling, H., Shi, J., Williams, P. T., & Huang, J. (2017). Promoting hydrogen production and minimizing catalyst deactivation from the pyrolysis-catalytic steam reforming of biomass on nanosized NiZnAlOx catalysts. Fuel, 188, 610-620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2016.10.072

Hydrogen production from the thermochemical conversion of biomass was carried out with nano-sized NiZnAlOx catalysts using a two-stage fixed bed reactor system. The gases derived from the pyrolysis of wood sawdust in the first stage were catalyticall... Read More about Promoting hydrogen production and minimizing catalyst deactivation from the pyrolysis-catalytic steam reforming of biomass on nanosized NiZnAlOx catalysts.

The effects of the composition of microporous layers on the permeability of gas diffusion layers used in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (2016)
Journal Article
Orogbemi, O. M., Ingham, D. B., Ismail, M. S., Hughes, K. J., Ma, L., & Pourkashanian, M. (2016). The effects of the composition of microporous layers on the permeability of gas diffusion layers used in polymer electrolyte fuel cells. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 41(46), 21345-21351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.09.160

The effects of the composition of the microporous layer (MPL) on the through-plane permeability of the gas diffusion layers (GDLs) used in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) have been thoroughly experimentally investigated in this paper. For a gi... Read More about The effects of the composition of microporous layers on the permeability of gas diffusion layers used in polymer electrolyte fuel cells.

Investigation of the chemocatalytic and biocatalytic valorization of a range of different lignin preparations: The importance of β-O-4 content (2016)
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Lancefield, C. S., Rashid, G. M. M., Bouxin, F., Wasak, A., Tu, W.-C., Hallett, J., Zein, S., Rodríguez, J., Jackson, S. D., Westwood, N. J., & Bugg, T. D. H. (2016). Investigation of the chemocatalytic and biocatalytic valorization of a range of different lignin preparations: The importance of β-O-4 content. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 4(12), 6921-6930. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b01855

A set of seven different lignin preparations was generated from a range of organosolv (acidic, alkaline, ammonia-treated, and dioxane-based), ionic liquid, autohydrolysis, and Kraft pretreatments of lignocelluloses. Each lignin was characterized by 2... Read More about Investigation of the chemocatalytic and biocatalytic valorization of a range of different lignin preparations: The importance of β-O-4 content.

Large-Scale Production of V6O13 Cathode Materials Assisted by Thermal Gravimetric Analysis-Infrared Spectroscopy Technology (2016)
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Liang, H. P., Du, J., Jones, T. G., Lawrence, N. S., & Meredith, A. W. (2016). Large-Scale Production of V6O13 Cathode Materials Assisted by Thermal Gravimetric Analysis-Infrared Spectroscopy Technology. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 8(39), 25674-25679. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b10832

© 2016 American Chemical Society. The kilogram-scale fabrication of V6O13 cathode materials has been notably assisted by in situ thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA)-infrared spectroscopy (IR) technology. This technology successfully identified a resid... Read More about Large-Scale Production of V6O13 Cathode Materials Assisted by Thermal Gravimetric Analysis-Infrared Spectroscopy Technology.

Case study of viability of bioenergy production from landfill gas (LFG) (2016)
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Vourdoubas, J., & Skoulou, V. K. (2016). Case study of viability of bioenergy production from landfill gas (LFG). Journal of Agricultural Science, 8(10), 165-176. https://doi.org/10.5539/jas.v8n10p165

The landfill gas (LFG) produced from the existing landfill site in Heraklion city, Crete island, Greece, is not currently exploited to its full potential. It could however be exploited for power generation and/or combined heat and power (CHP) product... Read More about Case study of viability of bioenergy production from landfill gas (LFG).

A mechanistic study of the EC′ mechanism – the split wave in cyclic voltammetry and square wave voltammetry (2016)
Journal Article
Song, P., Fisher, A. C., Wadhawan, J. D., Cooper, J. J., Ward, H. J., & Lawrence, N. S. (in press). A mechanistic study of the EC′ mechanism – the split wave in cyclic voltammetry and square wave voltammetry. RSC advances, 6(74), 70237-70242. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ra08723j

In this paper, a detailed investigation of electrochemical reactions coupled with homogenous chemical steps using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and square wave voltammetry (SWV) was carried out to study the electrocatalytic (EC’) mechanism. In CV, paramete... Read More about A mechanistic study of the EC′ mechanism – the split wave in cyclic voltammetry and square wave voltammetry.

A multicriteria comparison of utilizing sugar cane bagasse for methanol to gasoline and butanol production (2016)
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Michailos, S., Parker, D., & Webb, C. (2016). A multicriteria comparison of utilizing sugar cane bagasse for methanol to gasoline and butanol production. Biomass & bioenergy, 95, 436-448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2016.06.019

The present study makes a consistent and comparative assessment of the overall exergy, financial and environmental efficiencies of two biomass-to-fuels (utilised in internal combustion engines with spark ignition) conversion options and based on this... Read More about A multicriteria comparison of utilizing sugar cane bagasse for methanol to gasoline and butanol production.

Numerical modeling of shape and topology optimisation of a piezoelectric cantilever beam in an energy-harvesting sensor (2016)
Journal Article
Thein, C. K., & Liu, J.-S. (2017). Numerical modeling of shape and topology optimisation of a piezoelectric cantilever beam in an energy-harvesting sensor. Engineering with Computers, 33(1), 137-148. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-016-0460-3

Piezoelectric materials are excellent transducers for converting mechanical energy from the environment for use as electrical energy. The conversion of mechanical energy to electrical energy is a key component in the development of self-powered devic... Read More about Numerical modeling of shape and topology optimisation of a piezoelectric cantilever beam in an energy-harvesting sensor.

Comparing the contribution of visible-light irradiation, gold nanoparticles, and titania supports in photocatalytic nitroaromatic coupling and aromatic alcohol oxidation (2016)
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Zhao, J., Ke, X., Liu, H., Huang, Y., Chen, C., Bo, A., Sheng, X., & Zhu, H. (2016). Comparing the contribution of visible-light irradiation, gold nanoparticles, and titania supports in photocatalytic nitroaromatic coupling and aromatic alcohol oxidation. Particle and Particle Systems Characterization, 33(9), 628-634. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppsc.201600049

Under visible-light irradiation, gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) supported by titania (TiO₂) nanofibers show excellent activity and high selectivity for both reductive coupling of nitroaromatics to corresponding azobenzene or azoxylbenzene and selective... Read More about Comparing the contribution of visible-light irradiation, gold nanoparticles, and titania supports in photocatalytic nitroaromatic coupling and aromatic alcohol oxidation.

Elaboration and characterization of nanoplate structured alpha-Fe2O3 films by Ag3PO4 (2016)
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Ke, X., Ren, Y., Wang, H., Wu, Q., Xue, S., & Zhang, C. (2016). Elaboration and characterization of nanoplate structured alpha-Fe2O3 films by Ag3PO4. Solar Energy, 135, 274-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2016.06.007

A new strategy for surface treatment of hematite nanoplates for efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) performances is proposed. Silver orthophosphate (Ag₃PO₄) has been adopted to mediate the formation of α-Fe₂O₃ films. Phosphate ions in Ag₃PO₄ is foun... Read More about Elaboration and characterization of nanoplate structured alpha-Fe2O3 films by Ag3PO4.

CO preferential oxidation in a novel Au@ZrO₂ flow-through catalytic membrane reactor with high stability and efficiency (2016)
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Zhu, F., Zhang, Y., Gu, X., Chen, C., Jin, W., & Ke, X. (2016). CO preferential oxidation in a novel Au@ZrO₂ flow-through catalytic membrane reactor with high stability and efficiency. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 41(31), 13513-13520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.05.210

CO preferential oxidation (CO-PROX) achieves much interest as a strategy to remove trace CO in reformed gases for hydrogen utilization. Herein, we reported a novel Au@ZrO₂ catalytic membrane reactor by embedding gold nano-particles in ZrO₂ hollow fib... Read More about CO preferential oxidation in a novel Au@ZrO₂ flow-through catalytic membrane reactor with high stability and efficiency.

Study of pyridine-mediated electrochemical reduction of CO2 to methanol at high CO2 pressure (2016)
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Haywood, S. K., Rybchenko, S. I., Touhami, D., & Wadhawan, J. D. (2016). Study of pyridine-mediated electrochemical reduction of CO2 to methanol at high CO2 pressure. ChemSusChem, 9(13), 1660-1669. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201600267

© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim The recently proposed highly efficient route of pyridine-catalyzed CO 2 reduction to methanol was explored on platinum electrodes at high CO 2 pressure. At 55 bar (5.5 MPa) of CO 2 , the bulk elec... Read More about Study of pyridine-mediated electrochemical reduction of CO2 to methanol at high CO2 pressure.

The effects of shape on the performance of cathode catalyst agglomerates in polymer electrolyte fuel cells A micro-scale FEM study (2016)
Journal Article
Ismail, M., Ingham, D., Hughes, K. J., Ma, L., & Pourkashanian, M. (2016). The effects of shape on the performance of cathode catalyst agglomerates in polymer electrolyte fuel cells A micro-scale FEM study. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 26(3-4), 1145-1156. https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-10-2015-0416

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to numerically investigate the effects of the shape on the performance of the cathode catalyst agglomerate used in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs). The shapes investigated are slabs, cylinders and spheres... Read More about The effects of shape on the performance of cathode catalyst agglomerates in polymer electrolyte fuel cells A micro-scale FEM study.

Low temperature plasma-catalytic NOx synthesis in a packed DBD reactor: effect of support materials and supported active metal oxides (2016)
Journal Article
Patil, B., Cherkasov, N., Lang, J., Ibhadon, A., Hessel, V., & Wang, Q. (2016). Low temperature plasma-catalytic NOx synthesis in a packed DBD reactor: effect of support materials and supported active metal oxides. Applied catalysis. B, Environmental, 194, 123-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2016.04.055

The direct synthesis of NOx from N2 and O2 by non-thermal plasma at an atmospheric pressure and low temperature is presented, which is considered to be an attractive option for replacement of the Haber-Bosch process. In this study, the direct synthes... Read More about Low temperature plasma-catalytic NOx synthesis in a packed DBD reactor: effect of support materials and supported active metal oxides.

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