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Sodium chlorate

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The influence of the gas on the dynamics of cavitation bubbles

Cavitation bubbles, extensively investigated in fluid mechanics, present enduring challenges in hydraulic machinery, while holding considerable potential for practical applications in biomedicine and sonochemistry. Despite more than a century of research, ...

EPFL2023

Anionic character of the conduction band of sodium chloride

Klaus Kern, Abhishek Grewal

The alkali halides are ionic compounds. Each alkali atom donates an electron to a halogen atom, leading to ions with full shells. The valence band is mainly located on halogen atoms, while, in a traditional picture, the conduction band is mainly located on ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Design guidelines for next-generation sodium-nickel-chloride batteries

Daniel Alexander Landmann

Sodium-nickel-chloride batteries have a proven track record for backup power applications, but also show great potential for large-scale stationary electricity storage currently dominated by lithium-ion batteries. While lithium-ion cells rely on critical c ...

EPFL2022

Force microscopy of the Caenorhabditis elegans embryonic eggshell

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Thomas Lehnert, Roger Philippe Krenger

Assays focusing on emerging biological phenomena in an animal's life can be performed during embryogenesis. While the embryo of Caenorhabditis elegans has been extensively studied, its biomechanical properties are largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

4 V room-temperature all-solid-state sodium battery enabled by a passivating cathode/hydroborate solid electrolyte interface

Corsin Battaglia, David Reber

Designing solid electrolytes for all-solid-state-batteries that can withstand the extreme electrochemical conditions in contact with an alkali metal anode and a high-voltage cathode is challenging, especially when the battery is cycled beyond 4 V. Here we ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Enhancing the Signaling of GPCRs via Orthosteric Ions

Horst Arthur Vogel, Shuguang Yuan

G protein-coupled receptors play essential roles in cellular processes such as neuronal signaling, vision, olfaction, tasting, and metabolism. As GPCRs are the most important drug targets, understanding their interactions with ligands is of utmost importan ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Solar-Electrochemical Platforms for Sodium Hypochlorite Generation in Developing Countries

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Enrico Chinello

On-site generation of sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) holds the potential to bring an efficient and cost-effective water disinfection method to isolated and remote locations. Solar-driven, stand-alone reactors could provide those communities full independence ...

ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC2019

Solar-Electrochemical Devices for Water Splitting and Chlorine Generation

Enrico Chinello

Solar technologies hold the potential to ultimately counteract the effects of climate change. Nevertheless, the intermittency of sunlight poses technical challenges regarding the storage of the surplus production and the supply of the deficit. The generat ...

EPFL2019

In Situ Formation of Free Chlorine During ClO2 Treatment: Implications on the Formation of Disinfection Byproducts

Urs von Gunten

Chlorine dioxide (ClO2) is commonly used as an alternative disinfectant to chlorine in drinking water treatment because it produces limited concentrations of halogenated organic disinfection byproducts. During drinking water treatment, the primary ClO2 byp ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Study of Hypochlorite Reduction Related to the Sodium Chlorate Process

Michael Markus Busch

Reduction of hypochlorite is the most important side reaction in the sodium chlorate reactor leading to high energy losses. Today chromate is added to the reactor solution to minimize the hypochlorite reduction but a replacement is necessary due to health ...

Springer2016

Determining The Potential Of Salinity Gradient Energy Source Using An Exergy Analysis

Mixing of fresh (river) water and salty water (seawater or saline brine) in a control fashion would produces an electrical energy known as salinity gradient energy (SGE). Two main conversion technologies of SGE are membrane-based processes; pressure retard ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2016

Dynamics across the structural transitions at elevated temperatures in Na0.7CoO2

Martin Mansson

The layered transition-metal oxide Nax CoO2 has been studied extensively both for its correlated electronic properties as well as for potential battery applications. It was discovered that high-temperature Na ion vacancy order and dynamics can be very usef ...

E D P Sciences2015

Determinants of disinfectant pretreatment efficacy for nitrosamine control in chloraminated drinking water

Urs von Gunten

Utilities using chloramines need strategies to mitigate nitrosamine formation to meet potential future nitrosamine regulations. The ability to reduce NDMA formation under typical post-chloramination conditions of pretreatment with ultraviolet light from a ...

Elsevier2015

Chemo-mechanical behaviour of a low activity clay

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Paul Joost Witteveen

Environmental geotechnics involves several engineering applications (such as the salinification of groundwater and the storage of nuclear wastes) for which a deep understanding of the chemo-mechanical behaviour of soils is a fundamental component. Despite ...

Taylor & Francis Group2013

An experimental and constitutive investigation on the chemo-mechanical behaviour of a clay

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Paul Joost Witteveen

Engineering issues for which the understanding of the chemo-mechanical behaviour of soils is relevant include wellbore stability problems, the sali-nification of groundwater and nuclear waste storage, etc. However, despite the vast number of situations in ...

Ice Publishing2013

Effects of carbonate on the electrolytic removal of ammonia and urea from urine with thermally prepared IrO2 electrodes

Christos Comninellis, Agnieszka Kapalka, Véronique Amstutz

Recent studies have shown that electrolysis can be an efficient process for nitrogen removal from urine. These studies have been conducted with urea solutions or fresh urine, but urine collected in NoMix toilets and urinals has a substantially different co ...

Springer Netherlands2012

Heterogeneous Chemistry of Cl2O and HOCl on Frozen Natural Sea Salt, Recrystallized Sea Salt, KCl and NaCl Solutions at 200 and 215 K

Michel Rossi, Pascal Pratte

The HOCl heterogeneous reaction on frozen natural (NSS) and recrystallized (RSS) sea salt KCl and NaCl solutions was studied using a low pressure flow reactor in order to measure the uptake coefficient gamma and products of reaction The HOCl sample used in ...

Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH, De Gruyter2010

Asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation coupled to multi-angle light scattering detector: optimization of crossflow rate, carrier characteristics and injected mass in alginate separation

Vera Slaveykova-Startcheva

The coupling of the flow field flow fractionation to differential refractive index (DRI) and multi-angle laser light scattering detectors is a powerful tool for characterizing charged polysaccharides such as alginate. However, the correct interpretation of ...

2007

Anode dusting during the electrolytic production of aluminium

Timea Tordai

The disintegration of the carbon anodes during the electrolysis of alumina produces dust particles contaminating the electrolytic bath. This phenomenon, called dusting, is one of the most deleterious Al electrolysis failures, as it leads to a significant d ...

EPFL2007

Cinétique de réaction hétérogène d'importance troposphérique sur des substrats modèles et sur des aérosols

Pascal Pratte

The first part of this study consists in the investigation of the evaporation and the condensation rate of H2O in the presence of different types of ice in a low pressure flow reactor. The second part of the present work reports the study of chlorine activ ...

EPFL2006