Wastewaters resulted from anthropogenic influence can encompass a wide range of potential contaminants and concentrations. There are numerous procedures that can be used to clear out wastewaters depending on the type and extent of contamination, however / disposal of pollutants from wastewaters in industrial scale is a difficult and costly problem. In this study, the use of ion exchange theory utilizing natural Turkish clinoptilolite zeolite from G&ouml / rdes-Manisa as ion exchange resins in down-flow column mode is investigated. The clinoptilolite with particle size range of 0.25-0.50 mm is used in the removal of lead Pb2+ and ammonium NH4+ ions from aqueous solutions. The aim of the study is to set up the conditions under which clinoptilolite may be used in an economical and efficient approach in the removal process. Experiments were divided into two sets: binary studies, and ternary studies, and the effects of conditioning clinoptilolite with NaCl solution, flow rate, and initial concentration of the solutions on the removal behavior were investigated. In binary studies, results showed that increasing the loading volumetric flow rate resulted in decreasing the breakthrough capacity and the column efficiency, while the total capacity remained constant. The maximum total capacity was determined as 1.16 meq/g of zeolite for NH4+, and 1.1 meq/g of zeolite for Pb2+ and these values were close to each other and to the sodium content of Na-form of pretreated clinoptilolite (1.16 meq/g of zeolite). In addition, by decreasing the initial contaminant concentration, an increase in breakthrough capacity and column efficiency was observed. In ternary studies, the results showed that the removal of Pb2+ and NH4+ ions are dependent on the flow rate, in which at moderately low flow rate, a higher ion exchange capacity is yielded. That was explained as at higher flow rates, the retention time was insufficient for the ion exchange process to take place completely between clinoptilolite and lead and ammonium ions. Thus, a competition between Pb2+ and NH4+ ions for the exchange sites on clinoptilolite was observed and this competition was in favor of lead ions. Consequently, it was observed that the clinoptilolite zeolite has affinity for both Pb2+ and NH4+ ions. However, the affinity of clinoptilolite for lead ions is higher than that for ammonium ions. Therefore, the cations selectivity for clinoptilolite according to their affinity is determined as the following sequence: NH4+ &gt / Pb2+ &gt / Na+.

The Marcellus Shale is an important resource play prevalent in several states in the eastern United States. The productive zone of the Marcellus Shale has variations in rock properties such as clay content, kerogen content and pore aspect ratio, and these variations may strongly effect elastic anisotropy. The objective of this study is to characterize surface seismic sensitivity for variations in anisotropic parameters relating to kerogen content and aspect ratio of kerogen saturated pores. The recognized sensitivity may aid to characterize these reservoir from surface seismic observations for exploration and production of hydrocarbon. In this study, I performed VTI anisotropic modeling based on geophysical wireline log data from Harrison County, WV. The wireline log data includes spectral gamma, density, resistivity, neutron porosity, monopole and dipole sonic logs. Borehole log data were analyzed to characterize the Marcellus Shale interval, and quantify petrophysical properties such as clay content, kerogen content and porosity. A rock physics model was employed to build link between petrophysical properties and elastic constants. The rock physics model utilized differential effective medium (DEM) theory, bounds and mixing laws and fluid substitution equations in a model scheme to compute elastic constants for known variations in matrix composition, kerogen content and pore shape distribution. The seismic simulations were conducted applying a vertical impulse source and three component receivers. The anisotropic effect to angular amplitude variations for PP, PS and SS reflections were found to be dominantly controlled by the Thomsen Ɛ parameter, characterizing seismic velocity variations with propagation direction. These anisotropic effect to PP data can be seen at large offset (>15o incidence angle). The most sensitive portion of PS reflections was observed at mid offset (15o-30o). I also analyzed seismic sensitivity for variations in kerogen content and aspect ratio of structural kerogen. Elastic constants were computed for 5%, 10%, 20% and 30% kerogen content from rock physics model and provided to the seismic model. For both kerogen content and aspect ratio model, PP amplitudes varies significantly at zero to near offset while PS amplitude varied at mid offsets (12 to 30 degree angle of incidences). / text

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Orientador: Rosangela da Silva de Laurentiz / Resumo: As lignanas apresentam grande variedade estrutural e diversidade de propriedades biológicas, desta forma ocupam um papel de destaque na busca por moléculas bioativas. A introdução de nitrogênio no esqueleto químicos de lignanas ariltetralínicas e arilnaftalênicas fornece compostos azo-heterocíclicos que contém o núcleo quinolínico e o anel lactônico e, portanto, são lactonas dihidroquinolinicas e quinolínicas. Essas estruturas podem ser potenciais alvos na pesquisa por novas moléculas para o desenvolvimento de fármacos para uma série de enfermidades. Desta forma, o objetivo deste trabalho foi sintetizar azo-análogos de lignanas ariltetralínicas, de estruturas conhecidas e inéditas, a fim de determinar suas propriedades leishmanicida, esquistossomicida, antimicrobiana e citotóxica contra células tumorais. A síntese dos azo-ariltetralinicos foi realizada a partir da reação multicomponente assistida por micro-ondas entre ácido tetrônico, anilinas substituídas e aldeídos aromáticos. O uso de reação multicomponente assistida por micro-ondas tem a finalidade a obtenção desses compostos de uma forma mais rápida e eficiente em relação às metodologias tradicionais de síntese. Foram obtidos 39 derivados azo-ariltetralínicos, pela variação dos substituintes dos aldeídos e anilinas, em rendimentos que variaram de 70 a 94%. Dentre os ensaios biológicos aos quais esses compostos foram submetidos, deve-se destacar a atividade leishmanicida e atividade antimicrobiana com valores de CI50, par... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Lignans have a great variety of structure and diversity of biological properties, thus they play a prominent role in the search for new bioactive molecules. The introduction of nitrogen into the chemical skeleton of aryltetralin and arylnaphthalene lignans provides azo-heterocyclic compounds containing the quinolinic nucleus and the lactonic ring and thus are dihydroquinolinic and quinolinic lactones. These structures may be potential targets in the search for novel molecules for the development of drugs for a range of diseases. Thus, the aim of this work was to synthesize azo-analogues of aryltetralin lignans of known and novel structures in order to determine their leishmanicidal, schistosomicidal, antimicrobial and cytotoxic properties against tumor cells. The synthesis of azo-aryltetralinics was carried out from the microwave-assisted multicomponent reaction between tetronic acid, substituted anilines and aromatic aldehydes. The use of microwave-assisted multicomponent reaction has the purpose of obtaining these compounds more quickly and efficiently than traditional synthetic methodologies. Thirty-nine azo-aryltetralin derivatives were obtained by varying the aldehyde and aniline substituents in yields ranging from 70 to 94%. Among the biological assays to which these compounds were submitted, the leishmanicidal activity and antimicrobial activity with IC50 values varying of 1.07-3.57 μg/mL and 12.5-100 μg/mL, respectively, for the most active compounds, should be highli... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

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O crescimento acelerado da população mundial e o consequente aumento da produção de bens de consumo tem impulsionado uma crise na disponibilidade de recursos naturais, principalmente os hídricos. Diante da escassez de recursos hídricos, processos de tratamento de efluentes industriais e domésticos que visam o descarte zero de líquido (ZLD - Zero Liquid Discharge) vêm sendo cada vez mais estudados. Atualmente, diversos processos têm sido empregados com este propósito. No entanto, ainda há a geração, juntamente com a água recuperada, de uma corrente composta por uma solução salina concentrada, cuja composição normalmente é constituída por diferentes tipos de sais inorgânicos. Uma das formas de alcançar o descarte zero de líquidos é por meio da implementação de um processo adicional de separação, sendo a cristalização evaporativa considerada viável para essa finalidade. O emprego deste processo é limitado ao controle das características morfológicas das partículas obtidas, visto que estas influenciam diretamente na efetividade de separação dos processos subsequentes à cristalização (filtração, centrifugação). Além disso, efluentes industriais são soluções complexas, e a utilização da cristalização envolve a presença de mais de um sal em solução (co-cristalização). Este processo é pouco investigado na literatura científica, logo, a determinação de condições de processos visando controlar a características destas partículas não é trivial. Neste trabalho, foram estudados o efeito da taxa de evaporação e da presença de sementes na morfologia, composição, tamanho e hábito de partículas de cloreto de sódio e sulfato de cálcio obtidas por co-cristalização evaporativa em bateladas. Os resultados serviram para a determinação de parâmetros de operação para a co-cristalização visando a obtenção de partículas com elevado tamanho médio e baixa dispersão de tamanhos. Taxas de evaporação elevadas favoreceram a obtenção de aglomerados de partículas. A presença de sulfato de cálcio em solução resultou em partículas maiores, menos polidispersas e com menor grau de aglomeração. Tal resultado foi considerado positivo, visto que, estas características são desejáveis para a separação dos cristais da solução mãe. Foi também observado que as sementes de hemihidrato atuam inibindo a aglomeração dos cristais de NaCl. O aumento da quantidade de sementes destes sais culminou na obtenção de partículas menos aglomeradas, porém houve um alargamento das distribuições de tamanho de partículas. Nos experimentos em que foram utilizadas sementes de ambos os sais, o mesmo efeito na aglomeração foi observado. Em todos os experimentos com semeadura de hemihidrato, foi observada a aglomeração deste sal com o NaCl, que foi intensificada com o aumento da taxa de evaporação e com o aumento da concentração de sementes. Foi identificada a possibilidade de recuperação de ambos os sais e obtenção - em determinadas condições - de mais de 90% do NaCl com até 99,50% de pureza. / The accelerated growth of the world population and the consequent increase in the production of consumer goods, has driven to a crisis in the availability of natural resources, especially water. Due to the scarcity of water resources, industrial and domestic wastewater treatment processes that aim the Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) have been increasingly studied. Nowadays, several processes have been used for this purpose. However, in all of them, there is still the generation of a brine composed of a concentrated salt solution, concomitantly with the recovered water, whose composition is normally constituted by different types of inorganic salts. One way to achieve the ZLD is through the implementation of an additional separation process, for which the evaporative crystallization is considered technically viable for this purpose. The use of this process is limited to the control of the morphological characteristics of the particles obtained, since this influences directly the separation effectiveness of the downstream processes to crystallization (filtration, centrifugation). Besides, industrial effluents are complex solutions and its crystallization involves the presence of more than one salt in solution (cocrystallization). This process is still not well investigated on scientific literature, thus, the determination of process conditions aiming to control the characteristics of these particles is not trivial. In this work, the effect of the evaporation rate and the presence of seeds on the morphology, composition, size and habit of sodium chloride and calcium sulfate particles obtained by batch evaporative co-crystallization were studied. The results were used to determine the operating parameters for the cocrystallization in order to obtain particles with high average size and narrow dispersion of sizes. High evaporation rates favored the obtaining of agglomerated particles. The presence of calcium sulfate in solution resulted in larger particles, less polydisperse and with less degree of agglomeration. Such result was considered positive, since, these characteristics are desirable for the separation of the crystals from the solution. Seeds of hemihydrate inhibited the agglomeration of the NaCl crystals. The increase in seed load of hemihydrate culminated in obtaining less agglomerated particles, but there was an increase in particle size distributions. In the experiments in which seeds of both salts were used, the same effect in the agglomeration was observed. In all experiments with seeds of hemihydrate, agglomeration of this salt with NaCl was observed, which was intensified with increasing evaporation rate and increasing seed amount. It was identified the possibility of recovery of both salts and, for certain conditions, obtaining more than 90% of NaCl with up to 99.50% purity.

No que diz respeito às águas residuais industriais, além da elevada frequência direta de efluentes salinos, o tratamento convencional de efluentes aquosos de diferentes tipos de indústria quase sempre resulta em uma solução contendo sais solúveis e insolúveis que podem ter qualidade suficiente para serem descartados em corpos aquosos, mas qualidade insuficiente para permitir a reutilização da água em processos industriais. Para reutilizar a água, visando o descarte zero de líquido, a cristalização se mostrou tecnicamente viável e tem sido utilizada nesta separação. Simultaneamente com a evaporação da água, os sais dissolvidos tornam-se materiais particulados que são subsequentemente separados por filtração ou centrifugação. Contudo, para atender às necessidades modernas da indústria em relação aos tratamentos com efluentes salinos, o processo de cristalização deve mostrar melhorias, especialmente devido à sua importância para atingir as metas de descarga de líquidos. Neste sentido, a cristalização simultânea representa a possibilidade de remover vários compostos em uma única operação de cristalização a partir de uma solução multicomponente. Isso significa que além da purificação da água, essa operação também pode permitir a recuperação dos compostos nos efluentes, que podem ser considerados como matéria-prima, eliminando resíduos - ou dando-lhes a destinação mais adequada. Para isso, é necessário projetar processos para separar os diferentes componentes que compõem as correntes de efluentes salinos e produzir produtos cristalinos com características morfológicas conhecidas. Dessa forma, o presente trabalho visou investigar o comportamento de sistemas ternários em cristalização, utilizando como modelo o sistema NaCl-KCl-H2O no processo de cristalização evaporativa em batelada, no intuito de avaliar a influência dos parâmetros de processo nos cristais formados e de traçar estratégias que possibilitassem o aproveitamento dos sais contidos nos efluentes. Três diferentes rotas de operação foram testadas para avaliar o comportamento dos cristais: uma inicialmente saturada apenas em NaCl, uma inicialmente saturada apenas em KCl e uma já de início saturada em ambos sais. Diferentes taxas de evaporação, tamanhos e teores de sementes foram testados. Verificou-se, de maneira geral, que o controle de dois fenômenos elementares é a chave para contornar os principais obstáculos desse processo: crescimento epitaxial e nucleação secundária. Em determinadas condições foi possível obter o produto das bateladas em distribuições bimodais, com cada pico rico em um dos sais, com purezas superiores a 90 %. Estes produtos, passíveis de separação simultânea dos cristais por composição e tamanho, foram obtidos em condições de supersaturações mais baixas e semeadura de cristais grandes de KCl e pequenos de NaCl. A partir destes resultados, considerando-se a necessidade de desenvolver técnicas de purificação de água menos intensivas em energia e mais favoráveis ao meio ambiente, um sistema de cristalização por membranas (MC) foi testado, utilizando-se o mesmo sistema modelo. O design proposto para MC possibilitou operar com este sistema por tempos superiores a 6 horas, com decaimento do fluxo em torno de 20 %. Contudo, o produto da cristalização simultânea por membranas não apresentou melhorias quanto à segregação. / In the industrial wastewater treatment, besides high direct frequency of saline effluents, conventional treatment of aqueous effluents of different types of industry usually results in a solution containing soluble and insoluble salts that may be of sufficient quality to be disposed in aqueous bodies, but insufficient quality for water reuse in industrial processes. In order to reuse the water, aiming at zero liquid discharge, crystallization has proved to be technically feasible and has been used in this separation. At the same time, with the evaporation of the water, the dissolved salts become particulate materials which are subsequently separated by filtration or centrifugation. However, to meet the industry\'s modern needs for saline effluent treatments, the crystallization process should show improvements, especially because of its importance in achieving liquid discharge goals. In this sense, simultaneous crystallization represents the possibility of removing several compounds in a single crystallization step from a multicomponent solution. This means that in addition to the purification of the water, this operation can also allow the recovery of the compounds in the effluents. In addition, particulate materials can be considered as raw material, eliminating waste - or disposing the residues appropriately. To this end, research is still needed to design processes to separate the different components that compose saline effluent streams and produce crystalline products with known morphological characteristics. Thus, the present work aimed to investigate the behaviour of ternary systems in crystallization, using as model the NaCl-KCl-H2O system in the batch evaporative crystallization process, in order to evaluate the influence of the process parameters on the crystals formed and to trace strategies to enable the use of the salts contained in the effluents. Three different routes of operation were tested to evaluate the behaviour of the crystals: one initially saturated only in NaCl, one initially saturated only in KCl and one initially saturated in both salts. Different evaporation rates, seed sizes and contents were tested. It was generally verified that control of two elementary phenomena is the key to overcome the main obstacles of this process: epitaxial growth and secondary nucleation. Some experimental conditions enablesd the obtaining of the batch product in bimodal distributions, where each peak was rich in one salt, with purities higher than 90 %. These fractions of the yield, that can be simultaneously separated by composition and size, were achieve mainly at lower supersaturations and using big KCl and small NaCl seeds. From these results, considering the need to develop energy-less and more environmentally friendly water purification techniques, a membrane crystallization (MC) system was tested using the same model system. The proposed design for the MC enable the operation for over 6 hours with a flux decay around 20 %. Yet, the proposed the yield of simultaneous membrane crystallization has not shown improvements in composition segregation.

Na primeira parte deste trabalho apresentamos uma forma eficiente para sintetizar quinze novos compostos α-amino-1,3-dicarbonílicos através da reação multicomponente de Ugi. Para estas sínteses foi utilizado o microrreator de fluxo contínuo, um aparelho que possibilita uma excelente transferência de calor, de massa e alta relação superfície / volume. Algumas das vantagens em se utilizar um microrreator de fluxo contínuo na síntese são: redução do tempo de reação, aumento de rendimento, seletividade das reações e menor geração de resíduos. Foi possível assim estudar as reações químicas em condições inéditas, variando parâmetros como: temperatura, pressão, tempo de residência e relação estequiométrica. Um comparativo de rendimento da síntese de quatro moléculas foi realizado e pôde-se notar a eficiência do equipamento utilizado, pois os rendimentos obtidos foram superiores quando as mesmas moléculas foram sintetizadas através da reação one-pot. Um scale-up da reação de Ugi também foi realizado e apresentou um resultado satisfatório. Na segunda parte alguns destes compostos foram utilizados como intermediários na formação de uma ligação amídica e também aplicamos a metodologia relacionada à cicloadição catalisada por cobre entre alquinos e azidas na síntese de cinco novos compostos 1,2,3-triazóis. Este foi o primeiro trabalho realizado no Laboratório de Compostos Heterocíclicos da Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas utilizando o microrreator de fluxo contínuo e este equipamento atendeu as necessidades deste trabalho com efetividade. / The first part of this work we present an efficient way to synthesize fifteen new α-amino-1,3-dicarbonyl compounds through the multicomponent Ugi reaction. For these syntheses was used the continuous flow micro-reactor, an equipment that allows an excellent transfer of heat, mass and high surface / volume ratio. Some of the advantages of using a continuous flow micro-reactor in the synthesis are: reduction of reaction time, increase of yield, selectivity of reactions and less generation of residues. It was possible to study the chemical reactions under new conditions, varying parameters such as: temperature, pressure, residence time and stoichiometric ratio. A yield comparison of the synthesis of four molecules was carried out and it was possible to note the efficiency of the equipment used, because the obtained yields were superior when the same molecules were synthesized through the one-pot reaction. A scale-up of the Ugi reaction was also performed and presented a satisfactory result. In the second part some of these compounds were used as intermediates in the formation of an amide bond and we also apply the methodology related to the copper catalyzed cycloaddition between alkynes and azides in the synthesis of five new 1,2,3-triazoles compounds. It was the first work performed in the Laboratory of Heterocyclic Compounds of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences using the continuous flow micro-reactor and this equipment met the needs of this work with effectiveness.

A presente dissertação de mestrado descreve estudos sobre as reações multicomponentes A3 na versão assimétrica. Diversas metodologias foram empregadas visando a obtenção de propargilaminas opticamente ativas, que são blocos sintéticos versáteis na preparação de compostos bioativos. O trabalho foi dividido em duas partes. Na primeira parte, estudou-se a utilização de aminas opticamente puras como materiais de partida para a reação tricomponente A3. Neste caso, foi utilizada a 2-metilpropan-2-sulfinamida como amina principal, no entanto, o produto de acoplamento não foi obtido, mesmo em diversas condições testadas. Outras aminas opticamente puras, como a (S)- metilbenzilamina e aminas derivadas de amino ácidos, também foram testadas. Os resultados, quanto às razões diastereoisoméricas e rendimento, foram satisfatórios quando aminas derivadas de amino ácidos foram utilizadas, principalmente quando o éster metílico da L-polina foi empregado como fonte de amina, que levou a formação do produto em bom rendimento e uma razão enantiomérica de 15:85. Na segunda parte do trabalho estudou-se a utilização de auxiliares quirais, na reação de A3, como indutores de assimetria. Para tanto, diversos compostos foram testados como oxazolinas opticamente puras e derivados de L-prolina. / This masters thesis describes studies for the asymmetric version of A3 multicomponent reactions. Several methodologies were employed in order to obtain optically active propargylamines, which are versatile synthetic building blocks on the preparation of bioactive compounds. The work was divided into two parts. In the first part, we investigated the use of optically pure amines as starting materials for the A3-coupling reaction. In this case, we used the 2-methylpropan-2-sulfinamide as the main amine, however, the coupling product was not obtained, even under several reaction conditions. Other optically pure amines such as (S)-methylbenzylamine and amines derived from amino acids, were also tested. The yields and diastereomeric excess were satisfactory when amines derived from amino acids were employed, especially when the methyl ester of L-poline was used as amine source, which led to the formation of the product in good yield and diastereoisomeric ratio. In the second part we studied the use of chiral auxiliaries in the A3-coupling reaction to induce the asymmetry. Therefore, several compounds were tested as optically pure oxazolines and L-proline derivatives.

The main aim of this project is to model the effects of varied injection parameters on the gas dynamics and droplet dynamics of the HVSFS and SP- HVOFS processes for improving the droplet breakup and evaporation to enhance the nanoparticles heating and deposition efficiency. Thermal spraying processes are widely used to generate thermal-, corrosion-, and wear-resistant layers over the machine parts, to increase the durability of the equipment under severe environmental conditions. The liquid feedstock is used to achieve nanostructured coatings. It is used either in the form of a suspension or a solution precursor. The suspension is a mixture of solid nanoparticles suspended in a liquid medium consisting, for instance, of water, ethanol, or isopropanol. This dispersion mechanism in a liquid carrier provides adequate flowability to the nanoparticles, which cannot be handled by conventional gas- based feeding systems, whereas the solution precursor is mixed at the molecular level; hence, more uniform phase composition and properties are expected in the sprayed coatings as compared to the suspension and conventional powder spraying. Firstly, experiments are conducted to analyse the effects of different precursor concentrations, solvent types and injection nozzles on the size and morphology of synthesized nanoparticles. The results indicate that the particle size increased with increasing precursor concentration due to the variations in the physical properties of the mixture solution. The higher precursor concentrations had an adverse effect on the droplet atomization and evaporation process that led to bigger size particle formation. The use of aqueous solvent has some limits and with higher precursor concentration the surface tension increases that resulted in the reduction of droplets’ disintegration, and thus bigger size precursor droplets generate larger nanoparticles. A mixture of aqueous-organic solvents and pure organic precursors are preferred to improve the process efficiency of the nanoparticles size and morphology. Furthermore, the nanoparticles size can be controlled by using liquid feedstock atomization before injecting into the HVOF torch. A new effervescent injection nozzle is designed and compared to different types of existing injection nozzles, to see the variations in the droplet disintegration, and its effects on the performance of the HVOF torch processes. It is detected that the atomization would result in smaller size particles with homogeneous morphology. In a numerical study, different droplet injection types are analysed to see their effects on the gas and droplet dynamics inside the HVOF torch. The group-type injection (GTI) and effervescent-type atomization (ETI) are used effectively to overcome the heat losses and delays in the droplet evaporation. These approaches reduce the thermal and kinetic energy losses in the suspension-fed-HVOF torch, thereby improving the coating formation. The effects of using multicomponent water-ethanol mixture injection in the HVOF torch are also modelled, and its impact on the droplet breakup and evaporation are studied. The organic solvents have a low heat of vaporization and surface tension, and can effectively be used in the HVOF spraying process over the water-based solvents. Furthermore, nanoparticles are suspended in the liquid feedstock and injected into the HVOF torch. The effect of increasing nanoparticles’ concentration in the feedstock and its consequence on the gas dynamics, droplet breakup and evaporation are analysed. The augmentation in the nanoparticles loading in the suspension droplets can decrease the droplet breakup and evaporation rate because the required heat of vaporization increases significantly. Moreover, the size of injection droplet affects the droplet fragmentation process; bigger sized droplets observed a delay in their evaporation that resulted in coating porosity. The results suggest that smaller droplet sizes are preferred in coating applications involving a higher concentration of nanoparticles with high melting point. Further, the gas flow rates (GFRs) are regulated to control the droplet dispersion, atomization and evaporation inside the solution precursor fed-HVOF torch. The size of the droplet diameter is decreased by an increment in the GFR, as higher combustion rates increase the combustion flame enthalpy and kinetic energy. Moreover, the increase in the oxygen/fuel flow rates dilutes the injected precursor. It reduces ZrO2 concentration in the process and decreases the rate of particle collision; as a result, non-agglomerated nanoparticles can be obtained.