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Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) is the main part of a Gas to Liquid (GTL) process. In this reaction which shall be done based upon iron or cobalt catalysts, H2 and CO molecules (namely Syngas) transform to long hydrocarbon chains. Regarding all of the advantages of cobalt catalysts in comparison with iron counterparts, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) began investigations since two decade ago. The present catalyst comprised of cobalt as active metal, ruthenium as activity promiter and lanthanum as support (gamma alumina) modifier. By the way, still some areas such as its lifetime duration and deactivation needs to be improved by complimentary researches. The present... 

The increasing utilization of silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) in industrial and consumer products has raised concern to wastewater treatment utilities, due to its antimicrobial activity. In this research, recovery of silver nanoparticles from wastewater via using activated carbon and convert it into usable nanoparticles is presented. real waste of silver nanoparticles have been used and activated carbon as adsorbent has a high absorption recovery for silver. Under the optimized experimental parameters e.g. pH, temperature, time of process, and amount of activated carbon, an absorption maximum was achieved and over than 99% of silver nanoparticles can be removed from wastewater. After the... 

Transparent conductive electrode (TCE) is one of the indispensable constituent of optoelectronic devices, which heretofore various materials such as ITO, graphene, CNT, metal nanowire and nanofiber network have been used to produce them. It should also be assumed that the use of low-cost materials, which has cost-effective production method, is essential for the construction of transparent electrodes. Copper nanofiber network film which is obtained from electrospinning process is a promising candidate among these materials because it has superiorities, such as low sheet resistance, proper flexibility and abundance in ground resources, scalable and cost-effective fabrication method. There are... 

Some of the low-grade titanium resources which are located in the country are titanomagnetite placer deposits. In current study, beneficiation of titanium-bearing concentrate of a placer deposit containing 6.13wt.% TiO2 was investigated by acidic leaching in order to remove impurities. To beneficiate the concentrate, based on the optimum conditions obtained in previous studies, solid-state reduction, magnetic separation, and calcination of non-magnetic product were performed. Afterwards, by studying temperature, time, acid concentration and L:S ratio, the final product was leached under optimal conditions were as follows: H2SO4 concentration of 15wt.%, L:S ratio of 20:1 (mL:g), reaction... 

In this research, uranium is leached from pHospHate ore of Sheikh Habil region by leaching operation using leaching agent (sulfuric acid) along with production of pHospHoric acid. In the following, the production of yellow cake from the produced liqueur solution (pHospHoric acid) by solvent extraction process is also mentioned. PHospHate ore contains a large amount of calcite and dolomite, which removal of these annoying elements by wet, dry and acid washing methods is the key to success in the production of pHospHoric acid. For this purpose, in the wet method of a flotation system, the dry method of heat furnace and in the acid washing method, various organic and inorganic acids were used... 

The magnetic MOF-based catalytic system has been reported here to be an efficient catalyst for running CDC reactions and synthesis of Triazole rings under optimal conditions. The robust MOF catalyst was built based on magnetic nanoparticles and HKUST-1 which further modified with thioacetamide and carbonization. The catalyst structure was confirmed by various techniques. Furthermore, the products’ yields were obtained in good to excellent for all reactions under mild conditions which result from superior activity of the synthesized heterogeneous catalyst containing Cupper. Also, the magnetic property of the MOF-based catalyst makes it easy to separate from reaction mediums and reuse in the... 

One of the novel methods of stabilization of nuclear waste is the use of vitrification technology. In order to stabilize high level wastes (HLLW) in glass, it is required that the elements are in their oxide form. Therefore, it is necessary to evaporate the waste and turn it into a solid form so that the elements can be converted into oxide form in the calcination furnace. Hence, one of the challenges of stabilization is the optimization of evaporation and calcination conditions. In this research, the parameters affecting evaporation were first investigated. Using laboratory measurements of application: temperature (110 to 180 °C), presence of nitric acid (0.5 to 4 mol/L), ratio of zirconium...