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This project evaluates the feasibility of using waste salmon fish bones as the reusable and low cost solid catalyst support for synthesis of biodiesel from waste sunflower oil via transestrification method. Calcinated waste fish bone derived hydroxyapatite (HAP) was employed as the supporter for KOH & K2CO3 to prepare an efficient solid base catalyst for biodiesel production. The catalyst were characterized by SEM-EDS, XRD, FTIR, BET, TGA, ICP. The effects of catalyst preparation conditions (such as fish bone and KOH or K2CO3 calcination temperature, loading of KOH or K2CO3 on the support), reaction conditions (such as reaction time, methanol/oil molar ratio, reaction temperature and... 

In this work ،we used the hydrothermal method for prepared the Bivo4 nano particles. For the best photocatality property these nano particles stabilized on the different basis. This catalysis characterized by UV-vis, XRD, BET, FTIR and SEM. The size of zeolites catalyst were 22 nm and size of Bivo4 were 54 nm and the SEM showed that the BivO4 were sphere. By addition of BiVO4 nano particles to the surface of zeolite, the surface area was increase, but addition of BiVO4 nano particles to surface, the average of holes size decreased and distribution of holes will be monotonous and the surface area increased. In the continue for investigation of photo catalyst activity of nano particle, we used... 

Acidizing operation is performed in oil and gas reservoirs with the aim of overcoming formation damages, increasing permeability and reducing skin factor. In carbonate reservoir, the hydrochloric acid increases the permeability of the areas around the well to a more than its initial value by dissolving part of the formation minerals. Considering that most of Iran's oil and gas reservoirs are in the category of carbonate reservoirs, it is important to study the reaction kinetics of carbonate minerals and acids used in acidizing operation. The complex and multifactorial nature of the acidizing operation in the reservoirs has made it very difficult to design a successful and optimal operation.... 

The kinetics of side reactions in dehydrogenation of propane over a supported platinum catalyst modified by tin was investigated. Catalytic dehydrogenation over a commercial Pt-Sn/γ-Al2O3 was carried out in a laboratory-scale plug-flow reactor at 580 to 620oC under atmospheric pressure. Several kinetic models derived from different reaction mechanisms were tested using experimental data obtained over a range of reaction conditions. It was found that the kinetics of the main dehydrogenation reaction was best described in terms of a Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism where adsorption of propane was the rate controlling step. Simple power low rate expressions were used to express the kinetics of... 

Increasing emissions of greenhouse gases from one hand and decline in the fossile resources of energy on the other hand has raised the motivation of searching for renewable sources. Biodiesel, because of having perfect feature for replacing with petroleum diesel, has been considered as candidate for this purpose. Using enzymatic reaction is one of the methods for biodiesel production. Understanding the kinetics of this reaction is important to achieve higher production rates.
In present work, the kinetic of transesterification of castor oil with use of Novozyme 435 (as enzyme) was investigated. Enzymatic biodiesel production is a bi-substrate (oil and alcohol) reaction. Genetic algorithm... 

Partial oxidation of methane (POX) is one of the most common processes to produce synthesis gas. In this study the kinetics of this process is examined and some reduced mechanisms are introduced to model it in this study. The experimental data from Research Institute of Petroleum Industry are used as reference experimental data. Inlets of this reactor are oxygen and methane with equivalence ratio between 2.53 and 2.9. Moreover, the experimental results of previous studies with the air as the oxidant in equivalence ration between 2.4 and 2.6 are used as basis for comparison of simulation results. During the first step, partial oxidation of methane in non-catalytic porous media is simulated by... 

In this research the process of incomplete reduction of hematite low iron ore to magnetite in a fluidized bed reactor was investigated. Temperature, composition of reduction air, particle size, and stay time were investigated as effective parameters. In this way, temperatures of 560, 580, 600, 620 and 640 degrees of centigrade, input air with flows of 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 l/s, particles size of 425-850 µm, 850 µm-1.4 mm, and 1.4-2 mm, stay times of 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20 min were used in this research. The reduced specimens were analyzed by XRD and chemical analysis. The results illustrated that increase of temperature, decrease of input air flow, decrease of particles size, and increase of stay... 

In this project photocatalysts TiO2, H3PW12O40, H3PMo6W6O40, H3PW12O40 / TiO2, H3PMo6W6O40 / TiO2, K2.5H0.5PW12O40, Cs2.5H0.5PW12O40, (NH4) 2.5H0.5PW12O40 and H3PW12O40 / M-TiO2 that M = La , Ce, Cr, Fe, Co were characterized by techniques DRS, FT-IR, BET, 31P NMR, SEM and XRD. The results of SEM and XRD particle size and page crystalline nanoscale catalysts, with size less than 40nm, respectively. FT-IR analysis confirmed the structure of heteropolyacid was produced. DRS analysis of the degradation reactions during wavelenght longer upheld. Degradation of methylene blue and pollutants such as Tinopal CBS-x to the polyoxometalates keggin is homogeneous and composite titanium dioxide two...