Continuous flow vortex fluidic production of biodiesel

RSC Advances ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (91) ◽  
pp. 49850-49854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Britton ◽  
Colin L. Raston
Keyword(s):  
Phase Separation ◽  
Sunflower Oil ◽  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Flow Vortex ◽  
Spontaneous Phase

Vortex fluidic synthesis of biodiesel from sunflower oil under continuous flow at room temperature, with spontaneous phase separation.

Rapid high conversion of high free fatty acid feedstock into biodiesel using continuous flow vortex fluidics

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 2276-2280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Britton ◽  
Colin L. Raston
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Free Fatty Acids ◽  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Flow Chemistry ◽  
Environmentally Benign ◽  
High Free Fatty Acid ◽  
Rapid Reduction ◽  
Biodiesel Feedstock ◽  
Flow Vortex

Rapid reduction of free fatty acids in biodiesel feedstock: the rapid conversion of problematic free fatty acids in bio-oils has been achieved using room temperature, environmentally benign vortex fluidic flow chemistry.

scholarly journals The synthesis of di-carboxylate esters using continuous flow vortex fluidics

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 2193-2200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Britton ◽  
Stuart B. Dalziel ◽  
Colin L. Raston
Keyword(s):  
Shear Stress ◽  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Flow Chemistry ◽  
Flow Vortex ◽  
Faraday Wave

Faraday wave assisted flow chemistry. Vibrations and shear stress drive the synthesis of di-esters in minutes using room temperature vortex fluidics.

Continuous flow vortex fluidic synthesis of silica xerogel as a delivery vehicle for curcumin

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 7953-7958 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chee Ling Tong ◽  
Uwe H. Stroeher ◽  
Melissa H. Brown ◽  
Colin L. Raston
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Activity ◽  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Silica Xerogel ◽  
Delivery Vehicle ◽  
Fluidic Device ◽  
Flow Vortex ◽  
Sol Gel Synthesis ◽  
Direct Incorporation

Sol–gel synthesis of silica xerogel using a continuous flow vortex fluidic device at room temperature is effective in direct incorporation of preformed curcumin particles, which has antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus.

Room Temperature Flow Electrochemistry as a Means of Retaining the “Memory of Chirality” via Hofer Moest Type Reaction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Hardwick ◽  
Rossana Cicala ◽  
Nisar Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Biological Activities ◽  
Supporting Electrolyte ◽  
Enantiomeric Excess ◽  
Flow Chemistry ◽  
Batch Processes ◽  
Enabling Technology ◽  
Chiral Compounds ◽  
Memory Of Chirality

<p>Many chiral compounds have become of great interest to the pharmaceutical industry as they possess various biological activities. Concurrently, the concept of “memory of chirality” has been proven as a powerful tool in asymmetric synthesis, while flow chemistry has begun its rise as a new enabling technology to add to the ever increasing arsenal of techniques available to the modern day chemist. Here, we have employed a new simple electrochemical microreactor design to oxidise an L-proline derivative at room temperature in continuous flow. Flow performed in microreactors offers up a number of benefits allowing reactions to be performed in a more convenient and safer manner, and even allow electrochemical reactions to take place without a supporting electrolyte due to a very short interelectrode distance. By the comparison of electrochemical oxidations in batch and flow we have found that continuous flow is able to outperform its batch counterpart, producing a good yield (71%) and a better enantiomeric excess (64%) than batch with a 98% conversion. We have, therefore, provided evidence that continuous flow chemistry has the potential to act as a new enabling technology to replace some aspects of conventional batch processes. </p>

Lead inclusions in aluminium

1989 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Johnson ◽  
L. Gråbaek ◽  
J. Bohr ◽  
A. Johansen ◽  
L. Sarholt-Kristensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hysteresis Loop ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Noble Gas ◽  
Melting Transition ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Free Surfaces ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Mean Size ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Spontaneous Phase

ABSTRACTIon implantation at room temperature of lead into aluminium leads to spontaneous phase separation and formation of lead precipitates growing topotactically with the matrix. Unlike the highly pressurised (∼ 1–5 GPa) solid inclusions formed after noble gas implantations, the pressure in the lead precipitates is found to be less than 0.12 GPa.Recently we have observed the intriguing result that the lead inclusions in aluminium exhibit both superheating and supercooling [1]. In this paper we review and elaborate on these results. Small implantation-induced lead precipitates embedded in an aluminium matrix were studied by X-ray diffraction. The (111) Bragg peak originating from the lead crystals was followed during several temperature cycles, from room temperature to 678 K. The melting temperature for bulk lead is 601 K. In the first heating cycle we found a superheating of the lead precipitates of 67 K before melting occurred. During subsequent cooling a supercooling of 21 K below the solidification point of bulk lead was observed. In the subsequent heating cycles this hysteresis at the melting transition was reproducible. The full width of the hysteresis loop slowly decreased to 62 K, while the mean size of the inclusions gradually increased from 14.5 nm to 27 nm. The phenomena of superheating and supercooling are thus most pronounced for the small crystallites. The persistence of the hysteresis loop over successive heating cycles demonstrate that its cause is intrinsic in nature, and it is believed that the superheating originates from the lack of free surfaces of the lead inclusions.

Metal-Alkali Catalytic Valorization of Lignocellulose Towards Aromatics and Small Molecular Alcohols and Acids in a Holistic Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Lv ◽  
Yuting Zhu ◽  
Weiqi Mai ◽  
Changhui Zhu ◽  
Qifeng Pi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Separation ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Woody Biomass ◽  
Solvent System ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
One Pot ◽  
Reaction Phase ◽  
Alkali Catalysts ◽  
O Phase

Abstract In this work, we developed an approach of one-pot completely catalytic conversion of woody biomass into two value product streams: lignin-derived aromatics (68.54% monomer and 29.65% oligomer yields of lignin) and (semi-)cellulose-derived small molecular alcohols (about 59.60% of biomass mass). These could be afforded by conducting lignocellulose depolymerization over metal-alkaline catalysts in a mixture n-butanol/H2O solvent system at 250 °C and 30 bar H2. In the valorization process, the homogenous mixture of n-butanol-H2O solvents extract and depolymerize both lignin and hemicellulose, while the catalysts and H2 are essential to cleave the inter-/intramolecular linkages of lignocellulose into target products. After the reaction, phase separation of n-butanol and H2O takes place when systematic temperature at room temperature, providing a mild and effective strategy to isolate lignin-derived aromatics (n-butanol phase) from small molecular alcohols/acids (aqueous phase). Ru/C and alkali catalysts are collected by filtration from n-butanol phase and H2O phase, respectively. Meanwhile, the effect of metal-alkali coupled catalysts enables facilitating the cleavage of β-O-4 linkage of lignin and increasing the attainability of (semi-)cellulose-derived oligomers and the small molecular alcohols. This catalytic system provides a versatile valorization approach for biomass catalytic to bio-based chemicals.

Room Temperature Batch and Continuous Flow Synthesis of Water-Stable Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs)

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (14) ◽  
pp. 5095-5101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongwu Peng ◽  
Wai Kuan Wong ◽  
Zhigang Hu ◽  
Youdong Cheng ◽  
Daqiang Yuan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Covalent Organic Frameworks ◽  
Flow Synthesis

Enzymic fluorometric continuous-flow assays for blood glucose, lactate, pyruvate, alanine, glycerol, and 3-hydroxybutyrate.

1978 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 1724-1729 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Lloyd ◽  
J Burrin ◽  
P Smythe ◽  
K G Alberti
Keyword(s):  
Blood Glucose ◽  
Perchloric Acid ◽  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Automated Analysis ◽  
Low Concentrations ◽  
Coefficients Of Variation ◽  
Analytical Recovery ◽  
One Year ◽  
Fasting Subject

Abstract We describe enzymic fluorometric methods of automated analysis for glucose, lactate, pyruvate, 3-hydroxybutyrate, glycerol, and alanine in perchloric acid extracts of blood. Unmodified Technicon AutoAnalyzer II apparatus is used. The usual concentrations of all these metabolites can be measured in as little as 0.1 ml of blood from a fasting subject. Within-batch and between-batch coefficients of variation ranged from 0.4 to 4.4% for all metabolites except 3-hydroxybutyrate, for which CV's were higher for low concentrations. Analytical recovery of added metabolites ranged from 92 to 98%. Glucose, lactate, alanine, and 3-hydroxybutyrate are stable in perchloric acid extracts for at least 13 days at room temperature, and a year at -20 degrees C; pyruvate shows a 6--8% loss after 3 days and 52% by one year at -20 degrees C; glycerol concentrations were stable at -20 degrees C for at least 13 days. Blank fluorescence is found in perchloric acid extracts of blood, necessitating blank runs for pyruvate, 3-hydroxybutyrate, glycerol, and alanine. The systems are simple to use, relatively inexpensive to operate, and are recommended for any laboratory with high throughput of samples.

Continuous flow biodiesel production from wet microalgae using a hybrid thin film microfluidic platform

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (85) ◽  
pp. 12085-12088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eko K. Sitepu ◽  
Darryl B. Jones ◽  
Youhong Tang ◽  
Sophie C. Leterme ◽  
Kirsten Heimann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Biodiesel Production ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Hybrid Thin Film ◽  
Microfluidic Platform ◽  
Thin Film Device ◽  
Wet Microalgae

A novel continuous flow turbo-thin film device (T2FD) is effective in producing biodiesel in high yield from wet microalgae at room temperature.

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