Submitted by Maria Medeiros (maria.dilva1@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-08-16T13:03:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JULIANA CORDEIRO NUNES - TESE (PPGEQ) 2017.pdf: 2293745 bytes, checksum: c60baeed38c440f535a6b8170f9736f4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T13:03:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JULIANA CORDEIRO NUNES - TESE (PPGEQ) 2017.pdf: 2293745 bytes, checksum: c60baeed38c440f535a6b8170f9736f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-15 / A pesquisa por fontes alternativas de energia tem sido cada vez mais intensa. Nesse contexto, surge o biodiesel, biocombustível que apresenta as seguintes características: emite menos poluente que o diesel de petróleo, biodegradável, renovável, não tóxico, dentre outras. O biodiesel é produzido através da reação de transesterificação, onde o óleo vegetal ou a gordura animal reage com álcool de cadeia curta na presença de um catalisador. O óleo de girassol é uma oleaginosa com potencial utilização para a produção do biodiesel, visto que pode ser plantada no Nordeste brasileiro no período chuvoso. Após a reação de transesterificação, o produto reacional contém impurezas que precisam ser retiradas e, para isso, devem ser realizadas a lavagem e a purificação do produto reacional. Para realizar a lavagem e a purificação é necessário conhecer o equilíbrio líquido-líquido de misturas formadas por água, glicerina, biodiesel e álcool. E, para isso, pode ser preciso ter posse dos dados termodinâmicos. O objetivo deste trabalho é realizar o estudo termodinâmico sobre o equilíbrio de fases de sistemas ternários (biodiesel de girassol – álcool – glicerina) e pseudoquaternários (biodiesel de girassol – álcool – glicerina – água/ácido diluído). Para isso, foi utilizado o método da minimização da energia de Gibbs, à temperatura e pressão constantes. Para representar as fases formadas em cada sistema, foi empregado o modelo UNIQUAC. Os parâmetros de interação binária entre os compostos foram estimados através do método dos mínimos quadrados. O sistema ternário formado por biodiesel metílico de girassol – metanol – glicerina, foi analisado à 25ºC, 35ºC e 45ºC e foi observado que o efeito da temperatura foi pouco expressivo, havendo uma pequena redução da região de imiscibilidade à 45ºC. Foram estudados os sistemas pseudo-quaternários formados por biodiesel metílico de girassol – metanol – glicerina – água destilada/ácido sulfúrico diluído, o sistema ternário de biodiesel etílico de girassol – etanol – glicerina e também os sistemas pseudo-quaternários formados por biodiesel etílico de girassol – etanol – glicerina – água destilada/ácido sulfúrico diluído. Em todos os sistemas pseudo- quaternários foi observado que a presença de água/ácido diluído: aumenta a região de separação de fases, não havendo alteração expressiva no comportamento da curva ao aumentar a quantidade de água destilada/ácido diluído de 50% para 75% em relação à massa da glicerina; e diminui a solubilidade do biodiesel na fase rica em glicerina+água destilada/ácido diluído. Na modelagem termodinâmica do ELL, os dados experimentais foram comparados com os valores calculados pelo modelo UNIQUAC, onde obteve-se uma boa concordância entre os dados experimentais e os valores calculados, uma vez que o maior desvio apresentado foi de 0,27%. Isso mostra que, no estudo no ELL dos sistemas analisados, podem ser utilizados os parâmetros calculados. Observou-se que é satisfatório o uso do modelo UNIQUAC para tais sistemas. / The search for alternative sources of energy has been increasingly intense. In this context, it appears the biodiesel, biofuel that has the following characteristics: it emits less pollutant than petroleum diesel, biodegradable, renewable, non-toxic, among others. biodiesel is produced through the transesterification reaction, where vegetable oil or animal fat reacts with short chain alcohol in the presence of a catalyst. Sunflower oil is an oleaginous with potential use for the production of biodiesel, since it can be planted in the Brazilian Northeast during the rainy season. After the transesterification reaction, the reaction product contains impurities that need to be removed and, for this, the wash and purification of the reaction product must be carried out. To carry out the washing and the purification it is necessary to know the liquid-liquid equilibrium of mixtures formed by water, glycerine, biodiesel and alcohol. And for that, it may be necessary to have possession of the thermodynamic data. The objective of this work is to perform the thermodynamic study on the phase equilibrium of ternary systems (sunflower biodiesel - alcohol - glycerin) and pseudo - quaternaries (sunflower biodiesel - glycerine - water / diluted acid). The Gibbs energy minimization method was used at constants temperature and pressure. To represent the phases formed in each system, the UNIQUAC model was used. The parameters of binary interaction between the compounds were estimated using the least squares method. The ternary system formed by sunflower methyl biodiesel - methanol - glycerin was analyzed at 25ºC, 35ºC and 45ºC and it was observed that the effect of the temperature was not very expressive, with a small reduction of the region of immiscibility at 45ºC. We studied the pseudo quaternary systems formed by sunflower methyl biodiesel - methanol - glycerol - distilled water / diluted sulfuric acid, the ternary l system of ethyl biodiesel of sunflower - ethanol – glycerin and also the pseudo - quaternary systems formed by sunflower ethyl biodiesel - ethanol - glycerin - distilled water / diluted sulfuric acid. In all pseudo-quaternary systems it was observed that the presence of diluted water / diluted acid: increases the region of phase separation, with no significant change in the behavior of the curve by increasing the amount of distilled water / diluted acid from 50% to 75% relative to the glycerol mass; and decreases the solubility of biodiesel in the rich phase at glycerin + distilled water / dilute acid. In the thermodynamic modeling of the LLE, the experimental data were compared with the values calculated by the UNIQUAC model, where a good agreement was obtained between the experimental data and the calculated values, since the largest deviation was 0.27%. This shows that, in the LLE study of the analyzed systems, the calculated parameters can be used. It was observed that the use of the UNIQUAC model for such systems is satisfactory.

Cryptographic protocols are implemented in hardware to ensure low-area, high speed and reduced power consumption especially for mobile devices. Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is the most commonly used public-key cryptosystem and its performance depends heavily on efficient finite field arithmetic hardware. Finding the multiplicative inverse (inversion) is the most expensive finite field operation in ECC. The two predominant algorithms for computing finite field inversion are Fermat’s Little Theorem (FLT) and Extended Euclidean Algorithm (EEA). EEA is reported to be the most efficient inversion algorithm in terms of performance and power consumption. This dissertation presents a new reformulation of EEA algorithm, which allows for speedup and optimization techniques such as concurrency and resource sharing. Modular arithmetic operations over GF(p) are introduced for small values of p, observing interesting figures, particularly for modular division. Whereas, polynomial arithmetic operations over GF(pm) are discussed adequately in order to examine the potential for processes concurrency. In particular, polynomial division and multiplication are revisited in order to derive their iterative equations, which are suitable for systolic array implementation. Consequently, several designs are proposed for each individual process and their complexities are analyzed and compared. Subsequently, a concurrent divider/multiplier-accumulator is developed, while the resulting systolic architecture is utilized to build the EEA-based inverter. The processing elements of our systolic architectures are created accordingly, and enhanced to accommodate data management throughout our reformulated EEA algorithm. Meanwhile, accurate models for the complexity analysis of the proposed inverters are developed. Finally, a novel, fast, and compact inverter over binary fields is proposed and implemented on FPGA. The proposed design outperforms the reported inverters in terms of area and speed. Correspondingly, an EEA-based inverter over ternary fields is built, showing the lowest area-time complexity among the reported inverters. / Graduate

No presente trabalho descrevemos nossos resultados relativos à investigação da dinâmica de solvatação mecânica por meio de simulações por dinâmica molecular, respeitando o regime da resposta linear, em sistemas-modelo de argônio líquido com um soluto monoatômico ou diatômico dissolvido. Estudamos sistematicamente a influência dos parâmetros moleculares dos solutos (tamanho, polarizabilidade) e da densidade frente a vários modelos de solvatação. Funções de Correlação Temporal da Energia de Solvatação foram calculadas com relação à correlações de n-corpos (n = 2; 3) distinguindo interações repulsivas e atrativas para ambos os sistemas líquidos. Também obtivemos segundas derivadas temporais dessas funções referindo-se à parcelas translacionais, rotacionais e roto-translacionais na solução do diatômico. Encontramos que funções de correlação temporal coletivas podem ser razoavelmente bem aproximadas por correlações binárias a densidades baixas e, a densidades altas, correlações ternárias tornam-se mais importantes produzindo um descorrelacionamento mais rápido das funções coletivas devido a efeitos de cancelamento parciais. As funções de correlação para interações repulsivas e atrativas exibem comportamentos dinâmicos independentes do modelo de solvatação devido a fatores de escalonamento linear que afetam apenas as amplitudes das dessas funções de correlação temporal. Em geral, os sistemas com grau de liberdade rotacional apresentam tempos de correlação mais curtos para a dinâmica coletiva e tempos de correlação mais longos para as funções binárias e ternárias. Finalmente, esse estudo mostra que os sistemas contendo o diatômico relaxam-se predominantemente por mecanismos translacionais binários em modelos de solvatação envolvendo alterações apenas na polarizabilidade do soluto, e por mecanismos rotacionais atrativos binários em modelos envolvendo alterações no comprimento de ligação. / In the present work, we describe our results concerning our molecular dynamics investigation of the mechanical solvation dynamics within the linear response regime in model systems composed by liquid argon with a monoatomic or diatomic solute. The effect of molecular parameters (size, polarizability) and density has been elucidated for various solvation models. Time Correlation Functions for the solvation energy were calculated and separated into n-body (n = 2; 3) contributions distinguishing repulsive and attractive interactions in both liquid systems. In addition, we computed second time derivatives of these functions in order to describe translational, rotational, and roto-translational portions in the solutions containing the diatomics. We found that collective time correlation functions are well described by binary correlations at low liquid densities and, at high densities, ternary correlations become more important producing faster decaying collective time correlation functions due to partial cancellation effects. The repulsive and attractive time correlation functions exhibit a dynamic behavior that is independent on the solvation model due to linear scaling factors that only affect the absolute amplitudes of these functions. In general, the systems involving a rotational degree of freedom furnish smaller correlation times for the collective solvation dynamics, but stronger correlated two-body and three-body terms. Finally, this study shows that the solvation dynamics for the solution containing the diatomics relaxes predominatly by binary translational mechanisms when solvation models involving changes only in the polarizability parameter are considered. Binary attractive rotational mechanism become important in models with changes in the bond length.

This dissertation develops a systematic targeting method based on the C-H-O ternary diagram for the conceptual design of gasification-based biorefineries. The approach is applied using dimethyl ether (DME) as case study. A stoichiometric equilibrium model is presented for calculation of the C-H-O chemical equilibria to evaluate and predict equilibrium syngas composition, operating temperature, type and amount of oxidant required in biomass gasification. Overall atomic species balances are developed and process targets are plotted on the C-H-O ternary diagram. Sustainability metrics are incorporated to provide useful insights into the efficiency of biorefinery process targets. It was found that syngas at 1200 and 1500 K is predominantly H2 and CO. Moreover, DME biorefineries have two main process targets, based on the indirect and direct synthesis routes. Gasification at 1200 K and 1 atm. using H2O/CO2 = 2.642 (w/w) and H2O/CH4 = 1.645 (w/w) achieved syngas composition targets for the direct and indirect methods respectively. Comparatively, the integrated biorefinery based on indirect route was more efficient, producing 1.903 ton of DME per ton of biomass feedstock. The process is 100% carbon-efficient and recycles 1.025 tons of H2O. / Civil and Chemical Engineering / M. Tech. (Chemical Engineering)

L’aluminium et ses alliages sont très largement exploités en industrie car ils sont légers, peu sensibles à la corrosion et parfois ont une dureté comparable à celle de l’acier. Souvent, le matériau est utilisé brut de fonderie, dans ce cas, la composition, la macro et microstructure de matériau issues de la solidification, définissent son comportement suivant les conditions d’utilisation. Cependant, au cours des procédés d’élaboration sur terre, l’écoulement convectif apparaît à cause de la gravité et modifie les conditions locales de la solidification, la distribution du soluté et influe sur les propriétés de matériau. Afin d’analyser et contrôler ces phénomènes, des études expérimentales et numériques ont été réalisés.Deux fours de type Brdigman ont été construits à l’Université de Miskolc par MTA-ME Materials Science Research Group dans le cadre du ESA-MAP MICAST pour étudier l’effet de l’écoulement convectif lors de la solidification des alliages. Ces fours ont été équipés de systèmes électromagnétiques permettant de générer des champs magnétiques rotatif et glissant .Des modèles multiphases développés à SIMAP/EPM, Grenoble, France, ont été utilisés pour la simulation numérique de la solidification d’alliages binaire et ternaire en présence d’un écoulement convectif créé par des forces électromagnétiques. La modélisation de la solidification d’un alliage Al-Si avec un brassage rotatif a été réalisée pour des configurations 2D et 3D avec un couplage entre un modèle macroscopique de transport et des modèles à l’échelle mésoscopique, l’un basé sur la règle de levier et l’autre sur une moyenne d’ensemble Euler-Euler. De plus, les effets de deux modes de brassage par champs glissants sur la solidification d’un alliage ternaire ont été étudiés dans une géométrie 3D à l’aide d’un modèle macroscopique basé sur la règle de levier. Les résultats des modélisations numériques permettent d’expliquer la ségrégation observée sur les échantillons expérimentaux. / Aluminium and aluminium-based alloys are widely in industry due to the corrosion passivity, lighter weight, yet – in several cases – comparable strength with steel. Often, the material is used “as-cast“, that means that composition, macro- and microstructure of the material emerged during the casting defines its behaviour under different loads. Yet, convective flows generally arise in casting processes performed on-ground because of gravity and modify local solidification conditions, and, consequently, solute distribution and affect properties of material. To understand and to be able to control such phenomena, detailed experimental and numerical work has been needed.Two Bridgman-type furnaces were constructed in the University of Miskolc, Hungary, by MTA-ME Materials Science Research Group in the framework of the ESA funded MICAST project for experimental study of the effect of convective flow in solidification of alloys. These facilities were equipped with electromagnetic systems capable to generate rotating and travelling magnetic fields of various intensities.Multiphase models developed at SIMaP/EPM, Grenoble, France, were applied for numerical study of the solidification of binary and ternary aluminium alloys under electromagnetically generated convective flow. Solidification of a binary Al-Si alloy under RMF stirring was done with Euler-Euler ensemble averaging and lever rule mesoscale models coupled with the macroscale transport both in 2D and 3D geometries. Further, effect of various modes of TMF stirring during solidification of a ternary alloys was studied in 3D geometry with lever rule based macroscopic model. Results of numerical simulations well explain the segregation observed in the experimental samples.

[pt] Foram estudados alguns sistemas binários de Cu(II) e Zn(II) formados com as poliaminas (PA= En, Tn, Put, Spd e Spm) e os complexos ternários (MLPA), onde L foi a PCr ou o ATP e PA uma das cinco poliaminas. O estudo foi realizado em solução aquosa por potenciometria, espectroscopia de ultravioleta-visível, Raman, RMN e RPE e cálculos de menor energia de estabilização e modelagem molecular. As constantes de estabilidade foram determinadas pela potenciometria. Os valores das constantes dos complexos com as poliaminas apresentam um comportamento bastante diferenciado entre os sistemas formados com o Cu(II) e Zn(II). A ordem dos valores das constantes de estabilidade dos sistemas com o Cu(II) é:CuPut<CuTn<CuEn<CuSpd<CuSpm, e dos sistemas com Zn(II) é: ZnPut<ZnEn<ZnTn<ZnSpm<ZnSpd. Esse comportamento diferenciado se deve a estrutura formada nos complexos. Enquanto o anel de 5 membros formado pelo complexo CuEn é mais estável do que o anel de 6 e 7 membros formados pelos complexos CuTn e CuPut, respectivamente, nos sistemas com o Zn(II) o complexo que forma anel de 6 membros (ZnTn) é mais estável do que o complexo que forma anel de 5 membros (ZnEn). Já o complexo ZnPut é o menos estável pela coordenação monodentada da poliamina ao Zn(II). Os complexos formados com Cu(II) e Zn(II) com a Spd e Spm também apresentam comportamento diferenciado. Com o Cu(II) as poliaminas Spd e Spm formam complexos se coordenando com três e quatro grupamentos amino, respectivamente. Com o Zn(II) a coordenação deve ser por três grupamentos amino nos dois complexos formados. Interações entre as poliaminas protonadas e os dois ligantes são observadas de um modo geral exceto no sistema Zn:ATP:Spd, e isso se deve a conformação que a molécula formada sofre que desfavorece a interação entre os ligantes. Interações entre as triamina (Spd) e tetramina (Spm) e a PCr, são observadas nos complexos ternários, para ambos os íons, mesmo quando estas não estão protonadas. Esta interação deve ser pelo átomo de nitrogênio não coordenado da poliamina e o átomo de oxigênio não coordenado da PCr. Neste trabalho foi possível esclarecer o modo de coordenação do Cu(II) com a PCr em solução, que é pelos grupamentos guanidino e fosfato do ligante, tanto no complexo binário como nos complexos ternários. Também para o Zn(II) a PCr se complexa do mesmo modo. O modo de coordenação do ATP ao Zn(II) tanto nos complexos binários como ternários, deve ser através dos grupamentos fosfatos PB e Py . / [en] Some binary systems of Cu(II) and Zn(II) with polyamines (PA=En, Tn, Put, Spd and Spm), and ternary complexes (MLPA) of Cu(II) and Zn(II), where L is PCr or ATP, and PA is one of the five polyamines, were studied. The study was performed in aqueous solution using potentiometry, ultraviolet-visible, Raman, NMR and EPR spectroscopies, and, calculations of the lowest stabilization energy for formed complexes and molecular modeling. The stability constants were determined by potentiometry. The order of the values of stability constants of the systems with Cu(II) is: CuPut<CuTn<CuEn<CuSpd<CuSpm. For systems with Zn(II) it is: ZnPut<ZnEn< ZnTn<ZnSpm<ZnSpd. This different behavior is due to the structures formed by the complexes. While the 5-membered ring formed by CuEn complex is more stable than the 6- and 7-membered ring complexes formed by CuTn and CuPut, respectively, in systems with Zn(II) the complex that forms the 6-membered ring (ZnTn) is more stable than 5-membered ring (ZnEn). The complex ZnPut is less stable than systems formed with other diamines, suggesting a monodentate coordination of this polyamine with Zn(II). The complexes formed by Cu(II) and Zn(II) with Spd and Spm also have a peculiar behavior. With Cu(II) the polyamines Spd and Spm form complexes by coordinating with three and four amino groups, respectively. With Zn(II) coordination should be through three amino groups in both complexes. Interactions between protonated polyamines and the two ligands are generally observed, except in the system Zn:ATP:Spd. This can be because of the conformation suffered by the molecule, hindering the interaction between the ligands. Interactions between the tridentate (Spd) and tetradentate (Spm) polyamines and PCr are observed in the ternary complexes for both ions, even when the PA´s are not protonated. This interaction should be between the non-coordinated nitrogen atom from the PA and the non-coordinated oxygen atom from PCr. It was possible to clarify the coordination mode of Cu(II) with PCr in solution, which occurs through the guanidine and phosphate groups of PCr, both in the binary and ternary complexes. The ion Zn(II) also coordinates in the same way. The coordination mode of ATP with Zn(II) in the binary and ternary complexes probably takes place through the PB and PY phosphates groups.

Orientador: Anna Diva Plasencia Lotufo / Resumo: A lógica de múltiplos valores, em especial a ternária, apresenta inúmeras vantagens sobre a lógica binária em circuitos reversíveis/quânticos. A realização de funções usando a lógica reversível ternária é conhecida por requerer um menor número de linhas em comparação com a lógica reversível binária convencional. Este aspecto tem motivado as pesquisas em abordagens de síntese. A grande maioria dos métodos existentes requerem entradas adicionais, denominadas de ancillary lines, durante o processo de síntese, o que é dispendioso para implementação em tecnologias quânticas, quando disponíveis. Neste trabalho, foram propostas diferentes metodologias e análises comparativas para o problema da síntese de circuitos reversíveis ternários sem a adição de ancillary lines. A metodologia de síntese proposta, denominada de MMD plus, foi aplicado nos modos backward e top-down como referência a todas as 362880 possíveis funções reversíveis ternárias de 2 variáveis. Além do processamento top-down originário do algoritmo MMD, um processamento bottom-up é implementado e sua eficiência comparativa é avaliada. Por definição, as funções reversíveis ternárias são permutações. Realiza-se a decomposição das permutações em ciclos disjuntos de ordem natural, em ciclos de permutação com 3 elementos, e em transposições, para obtenção dos circuitos reversíveis ternários. Uma métrica é introduzida para mensurar a complexidade e custo dos circuitos, com base nas portas reversíveis de múltiplos valores Muthu... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Doutor

No presente trabalho descrevemos nossos resultados relativos à investigação da dinâmica de solvatação mecânica por meio de simulações por dinâmica molecular, respeitando o regime da resposta linear, em sistemas-modelo de argônio líquido com um soluto monoatômico ou diatômico dissolvido. Estudamos sistematicamente a influência dos parâmetros moleculares dos solutos (tamanho, polarizabilidade) e da densidade frente a vários modelos de solvatação. Funções de Correlação Temporal da Energia de Solvatação foram calculadas com relação à correlações de n-corpos (n = 2; 3) distinguindo interações repulsivas e atrativas para ambos os sistemas líquidos. Também obtivemos segundas derivadas temporais dessas funções referindo-se à parcelas translacionais, rotacionais e roto-translacionais na solução do diatômico. Encontramos que funções de correlação temporal coletivas podem ser razoavelmente bem aproximadas por correlações binárias a densidades baixas e, a densidades altas, correlações ternárias tornam-se mais importantes produzindo um descorrelacionamento mais rápido das funções coletivas devido a efeitos de cancelamento parciais. As funções de correlação para interações repulsivas e atrativas exibem comportamentos dinâmicos independentes do modelo de solvatação devido a fatores de escalonamento linear que afetam apenas as amplitudes das dessas funções de correlação temporal. Em geral, os sistemas com grau de liberdade rotacional apresentam tempos de correlação mais curtos para a dinâmica coletiva e tempos de correlação mais longos para as funções binárias e ternárias. Finalmente, esse estudo mostra que os sistemas contendo o diatômico relaxam-se predominantemente por mecanismos translacionais binários em modelos de solvatação envolvendo alterações apenas na polarizabilidade do soluto, e por mecanismos rotacionais atrativos binários em modelos envolvendo alterações no comprimento de ligação. / In the present work, we describe our results concerning our molecular dynamics investigation of the mechanical solvation dynamics within the linear response regime in model systems composed by liquid argon with a monoatomic or diatomic solute. The effect of molecular parameters (size, polarizability) and density has been elucidated for various solvation models. Time Correlation Functions for the solvation energy were calculated and separated into n-body (n = 2; 3) contributions distinguishing repulsive and attractive interactions in both liquid systems. In addition, we computed second time derivatives of these functions in order to describe translational, rotational, and roto-translational portions in the solutions containing the diatomics. We found that collective time correlation functions are well described by binary correlations at low liquid densities and, at high densities, ternary correlations become more important producing faster decaying collective time correlation functions due to partial cancellation effects. The repulsive and attractive time correlation functions exhibit a dynamic behavior that is independent on the solvation model due to linear scaling factors that only affect the absolute amplitudes of these functions. In general, the systems involving a rotational degree of freedom furnish smaller correlation times for the collective solvation dynamics, but stronger correlated two-body and three-body terms. Finally, this study shows that the solvation dynamics for the solution containing the diatomics relaxes predominatly by binary translational mechanisms when solvation models involving changes only in the polarizability parameter are considered. Binary attractive rotational mechanism become important in models with changes in the bond length.

L’utilisation des combustibles fossiles est responsable de l’augmentation de la concentration en gaz à effet de serre dans l’atmosphère. Parmi les solutions de remplacement envisagées, l’hydrogène constitue un vecteur d’énergie très intéressant. Toutefois, cette solution ne sera envisageable que lorsque les problématiques liées à la production de l’hydrogène et à son stockage seront résolues.Le premier objectif de cette thèse porte sur la synthèse et la caractérisation de composés ternaires à base de magnésium dans le système ternaire TR-M-Mg (avec TR = Terres Rares et M = métaux de transition) qui pourraient être de bons candidats pour le stockage de l’hydrogène. Ces composés pourraient de plus avoir d’autres applications, notamment comme matériaux de structure, du fait de leur très faible densité. La composition NdNiMg15 a fait l’objet d’une étude complète. Cette phase cristallise selon une symétrie quadratique avec a= 10,0602(1) et c= 7,7612(2) Å et un groupe d’espace P4/nmm. Un ordre antiferromagnétique à 9 K est observé et la capacité massique de stockage réversible est de 4 %mass. Cette nouvelle phase a montré un effet durcissant sur le magnésium.Le deuxième objectif de cette thèse concerne la production d’hydrogène par hydrolyse i) des composés ternaires TR-M-Mg qui pourrait être considérée comme une possibilité économique et énergétique pour valoriser les déchets de ces composés et ii) des mélanges ternaires TR-M-Mg élaborés par broyage mécanique. Le broyage a permis la création des défauts favorisant ainsi la corrosion des métaux. De plus, la production d'hydrogène par hydrolyse des composites Mg-NdNiMg15 (70, 80 et 90 %mass. Mg) a été réalisée et comparée à celle du composé NdNiMg15 (64 %mass. en Mg). Le mécanisme de corrosion principal déduit des essais électrochimiques sur les composites est la corrosion galvanique. / The use of fossil fuels (non-renewable energy) is responsible for the increase of the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Among the considered alternatives, hydrogen is seen as the most attractive energy vector. Production and storage of hydrogen is one of the key challenges in developing the hydrogen economy.The first objective of this thesis deal with the synthesis and characterization of magnesium-based ternary compounds in the RE-TM-Mg ternary system (with RE = Rare Earth and TM = transition metals) which could be good candidates for hydrogen storage. These compounds could also have other applications than the hydrogen storage in the future such as light structured material. The NdNiMg15 compound has been the subject of a completed study. This phase crystallizes with a tetragonal symmetry (a= 10.0602(1) and c= 7.7612(2) Å and a space group P4/nmm). It showed an antiferromagnetic ordering at 9 K and a reversible hydrogen storage capacity of 4 %mass. This phase exhibited a hardening effect respect to magnesium compound.The second objective of this thesis concerns the hydrogen production by hydrolysis of i) RE-TM-Mg ternary compounds, which could be considered as an economic and energetic possibility to valorize the waste of these compounds and ii) RE-TM-Mg ternary mixtures prepared by ball milling. The grinding creates defects thus promoting the corrosion of the metals. In addition, the hydrogen production by hydrolysis of the Mg-NdNiMg15 composites (70, 80 and 90 %mass. Mg) was carried out and compared with that of the NdNiMg15 compound (64 %mass. Mg). The main corrosion mechanism determined from the electrochemical measurements of the composites is the galvanic corrosion.

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With the objective of developing the best operational conditions the research started with the surfactant synthesis and after that the pseudo-ternary diagrams were plotted. It was decided to use the system composed with isoamyl alcohol as co-surfactant due its smallest solubility in water. The methodology to impregnate the microemulsion on the adsorbents was developed and to prepare each sample was used 10 g of adsorbent and 20 mL of microemulsion. The effect of drying time and temperature was evaluated and the best results were obtained with T = 65 ?C and t = 48 h. After evaluating the efficiency of the tested adsorbents it was decided to use chitosan and diatomite. The influence of the agitation speed, granule size, heavy metal synthetic solution concentration, pH, contact time between adsorbent and metal solution, presence or not of NaCl and others metallic ions in the solution (copper and nickel) were evaluated. The adsorption isotherms were obtained and Freundlich and Langmuir models were tested. The last one correlated better the data. With the purpose to evaluate if using a surfactant solution would supply similar results, the adsorbent surface was modified with this solution. It was verified that the adsorbent impregnated with a microemulsion was more effective than the one with a surfactant solution, showing that the organic phase (kerosene) was important in the heavy metal removal process. It was studied the desorption process and verified that the concentrated minerals acids removed the chromium from the adsorbent surface better than others tested solutions. The treatment showed to be effective, being obtained an increase of approximately 10% in the chitosan s adsorption capacity (132 mg of Cr3+ / g adsorbent), that was already quite efficient, and for diatomite, that was not capable to remove the metal without the microemulsion treatment, it was obtained a capacity of 10 mg of Cr3+ / g adsorbent, checking the applied treatment effectiveness / Os metais pesados s?o utilizados em muitos processos industriais e, quando descartados ao meio ambiente, podem ocasionar efeitos prejudiciais aos seres vivos. O processo de adsor??o vem sendo utilizado como metodologia eficaz para a remo??o de ?ons met?licos. A busca por novos adsorventes motivou o desenvolvimento deste trabalho, realizado com o objetivo de remover Cr (III) de solu??es aquosas. Utilizou-se como adsorventes: diatomita, quitosana, Filtrol 24TM e carv?o ativo. Empregou-se como agente modificador dos adsorventes uma microemuls?o bicont?nua composta de ?gua (25 %), querosene (25 %), ?leo de coco saponificado (10 %) e cotensoativo (?lcool isoam?lico ou but?lico, 40 %). Com o objetivo de obter as melhores condi??es operacionais partiu-se da obten??o do tensoativo e obteve-se os diagramas pseudotern?rios. Resolveu-se empregar o sistema contendo o ?lcool isoam?lico devido sua menor solubilidade em ?gua. Desenvolveu-se a t?cnica de impregna??o da microemuls?o sobre os adsorventes e, para o preparo de cada amostra, empregou-se 10 g de adsorvente e 20 mL de microemuls?o. Avaliou-se o efeito do tempo de secagem e da temperatura, obtendo-se os melhores resultados com T = 65 ?C e t = 48 h. Ap?s avaliar a efici?ncia dos adsorventes testados resolveu-se utilizar a quitosana e a diatomita e avaliou-se a influ?ncia da velocidade de agita??o, granulometria, concentra??o, pH, presen?a de outros c?tions met?licos (cobre e n?quel) e NaCl na solu??o e o tempo de contato do adsorvente com a solu??o de metal. Obteve-se as isotermas de adsor??o e testou-se os modelos de Freundlich e Langmuir, que correlacionou melhor os dados. Com o prop?sito de verificar se o emprego de uma solu??o de tensoativo forneceria resultados semelhantes, tratou-se o adsorvente com esta solu??o e verificou-se que o adsorvente impregnado com a microemuls?o foi mais efetivo, comprovando que a fase org?nica (querosene) era importante para o processo. Estudou-se o processo de dessor??o e verificou-se que os ?cidos minerais concentrados eluiam melhor o cromo. O tratamento mostrou-se eficaz obtendo-se um aumento na capacidade de adsor??o de cromo de aproximadamente 10 % para a quitosana (132 mg de Cr3+/ g adsorvente), que j? era bastante eficiente, e, para a diatomita, que n?o era capaz de remover o metal, obteve-se uma capacidade de 10 mg de Cr3+/g adsorvente, comprovando a efic?cia do tratamento aplicado