Wet And Dry Oxidation of Polycrystalline SixGe1-x Films

1998 ◽  
Vol 533 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.-E. Hellberg ◽  
S.-L. Zhang ◽  
F. M. d'Heurle ◽  
C. S. Petersson

AbstractWet and dry oxidations of polycrystalline SixGe1-x, with various compositions have been studied at different temperatures. The growth rate of SiO2 is found to be enhanced by Ge, and the enhancement effect is more pronounced in H2O than in O2. A mathematical model, which assumes simultaneous oxidation of Si and Ge and reduction of GeO2 by free Si available at the growing-oxide/SixGe1-x interface, is found to give a quantitative description of the SiO2 growth during thermal oxidation of SixGe1-x. Kinetic parameters are extracted by comparing the model with experiments. The linear and parabolic rate constants for Si oxidation are determined on control Si (100) wafers and polycrystalline Si films. Simple expressions are used for the interdiffusion of Si and Ge in SixGe1-x. For wet oxidation, the activation energy for the reaction rate constant of Ge oxidation is found to be smaller than that of Si oxidation.

Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 913
Author(s):  
Jinyi Wang ◽  
Sen Yang

The development of low-cost and high-efficiency catalysts for wastewater treatment is of great significance. Herein, nanoporous Cu/Cu2O catalysts were synthesized from MnCu, MnCuNi, and MnCuAl with similar ligament size through one-step dealloying. Meanwhile, the comparisons of three catalysts in performing methyl orange degradation were investigated. One of the catalysts possessed a degradation efficiency as high as 7.67 mg·g−1·min−1. With good linear fitting by the pseudo-first-order model, the reaction rate constant was evaluated. In order to better understand the degradation process, the adsorption behavior was considered, and it was divided into three stages based on the intra-particle diffusion model. Three different temperatures were applied to explore the activation energy of the degradation. As a photocatalytic agent, the nanoporous structure of Cu/Cu2O possessed a large surface area and it also had low activation energy, which were beneficial to the excellent degradation performance.


2007 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiying Zhang ◽  
Chen Lai ◽  
Kun Wei ◽  
Yingjun Wang

Hydroxyapatite nanowires with a high axial ratio have been synthesized in reverse micelle solutions that consist of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), n-pentanol, cyclohexane, and the reactant solution by solvothermal methods. This paper focusses on the kinetic studies of the solvothermal reaction and the linear growth of hydroxyapatite nanowires. When the reaction was carried out at low temperatures (65°C), the experimental results showed that the reaction rate was of zero order since the whole reaction was diffusion controlled with constant diffusion coefficients. In the middle to high temperature range (130–200°C), the kinetics were characterized by second order reaction kinetics. Since the controlling factor was activation energy and the apparent activation energy was large, the reaction rate was more sensitive to the temperature. Therefore, the exponent of the reaction rate constant increased by two when the temperature was increased from 130 to 200°C. By calculating the yields of products and the specific surface areas at different times, the linear and overall growth rate equations of the hydroxyapatite nanowires could be obtained. The experimental effective growth order of the crystals was 11. The larger growth order indicated that the crystal could grow more effectively in one direction because of the induction of the surfactant in the experiment system.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (17) ◽  
pp. 4820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Kaczmarek ◽  
Jarosław Panasiuk ◽  
Szymon Borys ◽  
Aneta Pobudkowska ◽  
Mikołaj Majsterek

The most common cause of diseases in swimming pools is the lack of sanitary control of water quality; water may contain microbiological and chemical contaminants. Among the people most at risk of infection are children, pregnant women, and immunocompromised people. The origin of the problem is a need to develop a system that can predict the formation of chlorine water disinfection by-products, such as trihalomethanes (THMs). THMs are volatile organic compounds from the group of alkyl halides, carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, and bioaccumulating. Long-term exposure, even to low concentrations of THM in water and air, may result in damage to the liver, kidneys, thyroid gland, or nervous system. This article focuses on analysis of the kinetics of swimming pool water reaction in analytical device reproducing its circulation on a small scale. The designed and constructed analytical device is based on the SIMATIC S7-1200 PLC driver of SIEMENS Company. The HMI KPT panel of SIEMENS Company enables monitoring the process and control individual elements of device. Value of the reaction rate constant of free chlorine decomposition gives us qualitative information about water quality, it is also strictly connected to the kinetics of the reaction. Based on the experiment results, the value of reaction rate constant was determined as a linear change of the natural logarithm of free chlorine concentration over time. The experimental value of activation energy based on the directional coefficient is equal to 76.0 [kJ×mol−1]. These results indicate that changing water temperature does not cause any changes in the reaction rate, while it still affects the value of the reaction rate constant. Using the analytical device, it is possible to constantly monitor the values of reaction rate constant and activation energy, which can be used to develop a new way to assess pool water quality.


2002 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 557-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Davydov ◽  
L. S. Kashevarova ◽  
A. V. Rakhmanina ◽  
V. M. Senyavin ◽  
N. N. Oleinikov ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Shiju Joseph ◽  
Siva Uppalapati ◽  
Ozlem Cizer

Alkali activated materials (AAM) are generally cured at high temperatures to compensate for the low reaction rate. Higher temperature accelerates the reaction of AAM as in cement-based materials and this effect is generally predicted using Arrhenius equation based on the activation energy. While apparent activation energy is calculated from parallel isothermal calorimetry measurements at different temperatures, instantaneous activation energy is typically measured using a differential scanning calorimeter. Compared to the apparent activation energy, instantaneous activation energy has minimal effects on the microstructural changes due to the variation in temperature. In this work, the evolution of activation energy was determined by traditional methods and was compared with the instantaneous activation energy. It was found that while the activation energy changed with the progress of reaction over traditional methods, the instantaneous activation energy did not show any changes / or remained the same. The instantaneous activation energy was also found to be higher compared to the apparent activation energy determined with traditional methods.


The increased demand for advanced techniques in anaerobic digestion over the last few years has led to the employment of various pre-treatment methods prior to anaerobic digestion to increase gas production. These pre-treatment methods alter the physical and chemical properties of sludge in order to make it more readily degradable by anaerobic digestion. Although the thermal pre-treatment presents high energy consumption, the main part of this energy to heat can be recovered from the biogas produced in the anaerobic process. In this research a mixture of primary and waste activated sludge was thermally pretreated at 100, 125, 150, 175 and 200 oC in order to determine the reaction kinetics for the increase of soluble organic fraction (expressed as CODs and VFAs). Experimental results proved that the solubilization of sludge is a 1st order reaction with respect to both CODs and VFAs, KCODs (reaction rate constant of CODs solubilization) increased from 4.59*10-3 (min-1) to 7.55*10-3 (min-1) as the temperature increased from 100 to 200 oC, with a reaction activation energy of 7447.21 (J/mole) and frequency factor of 0.051 (min-1), While KVFAs (reaction rate constant of VFAs solubilization) increased from 5.33*10-3 (min-1) to 7.97*10-3 (min-1) for the same increase in temperature, with a reaction activation energy of 5947.22 (J/mole) and frequency factor of 0.0364 (min-1).


Author(s):  
Virginia Collins-Martínez ◽  
Alejandro López Ortiz ◽  
Alfredo Aguilar Elguézabal

A set of TiO2 samples with different anatase/rutile ratios was prepared by calcinations at different temperatures from commercial photocatalyst Degussa P25. The effects of the two crystalline phases of titanium (IV) oxide on the photocatalytic activity in gaseous phase through oxidation of light hydrocarbons were studied. Crystalline phase transformation from anatase to rutile occurred at 700°C for P25. Results indicate that samples with higher anatase/rutile ratios presented higher intrinsic activities for the photodegradation of a propane/isobutane/butane (40/35/25 %V) mixture. However, the activity did not totally disappear after complete crystalline transformation from anatase to rutile, indicating that the pure rutile phase also presents photoactivity. During the photocatalytic reaction of TiO2 samples, a linear dependence was found between the inverse of the intrinsic reaction rate constant (k intrinsic) and the water adsorption capacity in the surface (WAPS) of the synthesized TiO2 catalyst. The thermal treatment used to induce the formation of rutile by calcination would presumably reduce water adsorption capacity and surface area, leading to a decrease in photocatalytic activity.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. M. Alwaan

The goal of this study is to find the effect of time and temperature on the thermal degradation of recycled polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resin. The isothermal rate of reaction(r)of recycled PVC resin was investigated at the following temperatures to: 100, 110, 120, 130, and 140°C at period of times ranging from 10 to 50 min. The result shows that the rate of reaction(r)of recycled PVC increases with increasing temperatures. The reaction rate constant(K)for temperatures ranging from 100 to 140°C was doubled from 0.028–0.056 mol·L−1·S−1. The process was found to be zero order reaction at all range of temperatures 100–140°C. The activation energy of the thermal weight loss was calculated at different temperatures(E/R = 2739.5°K). The average enthalpy and entropy of reaction at temperature of 298°K were determined.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasser Al-Habsi ◽  
Sithara Suresh ◽  
Amani Al-Yhmedi ◽  
Marwa Al-Shoryani ◽  
Mostafa I. Waly ◽  
...  

In this study, the retention of vitamin C in fresh broccoli stored at different temperatures (i.e. chiller, room, cooking, and roasting or baking; 5-120°C) was investigated. The thermal stability of vitamin C in broccoli was analysed at 5, 20, 45, 60, 70, 80, 110, and 120°C. The vitamin C content was measured by the indophenol titration method. Vitamin C was affected negatively at all stored temperatures. The degradation of vitamin C was modelled by first-order reaction kinetics and the reaction rate constants were observed as 9.03×10-8 and 5.65×10-3 s-1 when stored at 5°C and 120°C, respectively. The activation energy was estimated as 74.2 kJ/mol within the temperature range used in this study. The lowest decay of vitamin C was observed during the chilling condition. The data on retention of vitamin C in broccoli could be used to determine their stability, when stored as raw, and when heated at different temperatures.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-168
Author(s):  
Baghdad Science Journal

In this research, the degradation of Dazomet has been studied by using thermal Fenton process and photo-Fenton processes under UV and lights sun. The optimum values of amounts of the Fenton reagents have been determined (0.07g FeSO4 .7H2O, 3.5µl H2O2) at 25 °C and at pH 7 where the degradation percentages of Dazomet were recorded high. It has been found that solar photo Fenton process was more effective in degradation of Dazomet than photo-Fenton under UV-light and thermal Fenton processes, the percentage of degradation of Dazomet by photo-Fenton under sun light are 88% and 100% at 249 nm and 281 nm respectively, while the percentages of degradation for photo-Fenton under UV-light are 87%, 96% and for thermal Fenton are 70% and 66.8% at 249 nm and 281 nm respectively. In this research the effect of temperature on all the reactions has been studied in the range 25°C-45°C, it has been noticed that the reaction rate constant (k) has increased with increasing temperature, and the best percentage degradation of Dazomet was at 45°C in all processes, so, the thermodynamic functions ?G*, ?H*, ?S* have been calculated


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