It is known that when water is a product in reactions catalysed by cation exchange resins, it inhibits the reaction rate much more than predicted by the reverse reaction or dilution effects. In this work the inhibiting effect is ascribed to the preferential association of the catalytically active sites with water. In the derivation of the kinetic model, a Freundlich type adsorption isotherm was used to quantify the number of sites occupied by water. This is combined with a power law expression for the reaction rate. The resultant expression can accurately predict the reaction rate for various initial concentrations of water and mesityl oxide. Even when water was initially added to the reaction mixture, this model still gave an absolute average error of 6.5% compared to a 54.6% error when the same approach was followed but with the more popular Langmuir isotherm to describe site deactivation. The kinetic expression previously proposed for this reaction system by Klein and Banchero also failed when water was added to the reaction mixture and gave an average error of 71.1%. The procedure used to derive the model is therefore suggested for all cation exchange catalysed reactions where water is one of the products. / Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Chemical Engineering / unrestricted

Des mesures de radiolyse impulsionnelle avec des paquets d’électron de 7 picosecondes ont été effectuées dans des systèmes D₂O et D₂SO₄ / D₂O purs afin d'étudier l'effet isotopique sur la réactivité de l'électron solvaté (es⁻), du radical hydroxyle (OH•) et de son radical cation cationique (H₂O•⁺). Dans le système D₂O, le spectre d'absorption molaire de l’électron solvaté dans D₂O a été déterminé entre 250 et 1500 nm en utilisant la méthode du point isosbestique. Sur la base de ce coefficient d'extinction, le rendement radiolytique de es⁻ dans D₂O juste après l'impulsion d'électrons de 7 ps a été déterminé à (4,4 ± 0,2) × 10⁻⁷ mol J⁻¹, ce qui coïncide avec celui dans H₂O. Le rendement du radical OD• juste après l'impulsion d'électrons s'est révélée être (5,0 ± 0,2) × 10⁻⁷ mol J⁻¹. Dans le cas de l’électron solvaté la vitesse de déclin dans D₂O est plus lent que dans H₂O, tandis que la vitesse de déclin de OD• est similaire à celui de OH•. Dans le système D₂SO₄ /D₂O, la réactivité de D₂O•⁺ a été sondée dans des solutions d'acide sulfurique deutérées de diverses concentrations et comparée à celle de H₂O•⁺. Le soluté oxydé, le radical sulfate a été observé à 7 ps et des rendements plus élevés ont été trouvés dans les solutions deutérées. Les effets isotopiques révèlent la compétition entre deux réactions ultra-rapides : le transfert de protons vers H₂O (D₂O) et le transfert d'électrons de H₂O•⁺ (D₂O•⁺). Les simulations par la théorie de la densité fonctionnelle décryptent le mécanisme du transfert d’électrons : elles se font par migration de charge sub-femtoseconde et ne sont pas affectées par la substitution isotopique. / Picosecond pulse radiolysis measurements were performed in neat D₂O and D₂SO₄/D₂O system in order to study the isotopic effect on the reactivity of the solvated electron(es⁻), the hydroxyl radical (OH•) and its precursor—water cation radical (H₂O•⁺). In D₂O system, the molar absorption coefficient spectra of spectrum in D₂O was determined between 250 to 1500 nm using the isosbestic point method. Based on this extinction coefficient, the radiolytic yield of es⁻ in D₂O just after the 7 ps electron pulse was determined to be (4.4 ± 0.2) × 10⁻⁷ mol J⁻¹, which coincides with the one for in H₂O. The yield of the radical OD• just after the 7 ps electron pulse was found to be (5.0 ± 0.2) × 10⁻⁷ mol J⁻¹. In the spurs of ionization, the decay rate of es⁻ is slower in D₂O than that in H₂O, whereas the decay rate of OD• is similar to the one of OH•. In D₂SO₄/D₂O system, the reactivity of and D₂O•⁺ was probed in deuterated sulfuric acid solutions of various concentrations and compared with that of H2O•⁺. The oxidized solute sulfate radical was observed at 7 ps and remarkably higher yields are found in deuterated solutions. The isotopic effects reveal the competition between two ultrafast reactions: proton transfer toward H₂O (D₂O) and electron transfer from H₂SO4⁻ to H₂O•⁺ (D₂O•⁺). Density functional theory simulations decipher the electron transfer mechanism: it proceeds via sub-femtosecond charge migration and is not affected by isotopic substitution.

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京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(エネルギー科学) / 甲第23295号 / エネ博第420号 / 新制||エネ||80(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院エネルギー科学研究科エネルギー基礎科学専攻 / (主査)教授 萩原 理加, 教授 野平 俊之, 教授 坂口 浩司 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Energy Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(人間・環境学) / 甲第23265号 / 人博第980号 / 新制||人||232(附属図書館) / 2020||人博||980(吉田南総合図書館) / 京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科相関環境学専攻 / (主査)教授 吉田 寿雄, 教授 田部 勢津久, 教授 中村 敏浩 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Human and Environmental Studies / Kyoto University / DFAM

Multicomponent silicate and borosilicate glasses find wide technological applications ranging from optical fibers, biomedicine to nuclear waste disposal. As a common component of earth's mantle and nuclear waste, iron is a frequent encounter in silicate and borosilicate melts and glasses. The redox ratio in glass matrix defined by the ratio of ferrous and ferric ions is dependent on factors such as temperature, pressure, and oxygen fugacity. Understanding their roles on the short- and medium-range structure of these glasses is important in establishing the structure-property relationships which are important for glass composition design but usually difficult to obtain from experimental characterization techniques alone. Classical molecular dynamics simulations were chosen in this dissertation to study iron containing glasses due to challenges in experimental techniques such as NMR spectroscopy originated from the paramagnetic nature of iron. Magnesium is also a common element in the oxide glass compositions and its effect on the structure of boroaluminosilicate glasses were also investigated. Magnesium ion (Mg2+) has relatively higher cation field strength than other modifier cations and its structural role in oxide glasses is still under debate. Therefore, investigating the effects of cation field strength of modifier cations in light of MgO in boroaluminosilicate glasses is also an important goal of this dissertation. Overall, through detailed and systematic molecular dynamics simulations with effective interatomic potentials, the structures of iron and magnesium containing complex boroaluminosilicate glasses were obtained and used to interpret properties and their changes with glass composition for nuclear waste disposal and other applications.

Comparative studies over micro-/mesoporous Cu-containing zeolites ZSM-5 prepared by top-down treatment involving NaOH, TPAOH or mixture of NaOH/TPAOH (tetrapropylammonium hydroxide) were conducted. The results of the catalytic data revealed the highest activity of the Cu-ZSM-5 catalyst both in the absence and presence of water vapor. The physico-chemical characterization (diffuse reflectance UV-Vis (DR UV-Vis), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, temperature-programmed desorption of NOx (TPD-NOx), and microkinetic modeling) results indicated that the microporous structure of ZSM-5 effectively stabilized isolated Cu ion monomers. Besides the attempts targeted to the modification of the textural properties of the parent ZSM-5, in the next approach, we studied the effect of the co-presence of sodium and copper cations in the microporous H-ZSM-5. The presence of co-cation promoted the evolution of [Cu–O–Cu]2+ dimers that bind NOx strongly with the desorption energy barrier of least 80 kJ mol−1. Water presence in the gas phase significantly decreases the rate of ammonia oxidation, while the reaction rates and activation energies of NH3-SCR remain unaffected.

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