A generalized equation was derived to calculate the melting temperatures of homopolymers and copolymers. The Gibbs-Thomson equation for homopolymers and a modified application to copolymers were derived using the proposed equation. The melting temperature Tm0 in the Flo...

Data are presented on separations involving systems containing small concentrations of iron particles in sand, and of salt particles in activated carbon, in a bottom-driven 3.66 metre long fluidized cascade. At each fluidization velocity a maximum beneficiation ratio wa...

In our quest for fractionating lignocellulosic biomass and valorizing specific constitutive fractions, we have developed a strategy for the separation of 12 added value monomers generated during the hydrolytic based-catalyzed depolymerization of a Steam Exploded Aspen L...

An extended Kalman filter (EKF)-based nonlinear quadratic dynamic matrix control (EQDMC) for an evaporative cooling draft-tube baffled (DTB) KCl crystallizer is developed. The controller is used to maintain the productivity, crystal mean size and impurity of crystals. S...

Many slurry rheograms do not follow the Bingham model, but are curved (convex upwards) at low-strain rates. Alternate models such as the yield-power law (YPL), provide a good fit to the low-strain rate data, but they tend to underestimate apparent viscosities at high-st...

This work quantifies the adsorptive uptake of radium-226 from solution by the walls of the solution container. Three different container materials were examined, each with significantly different critical surface tension. Teflon was shown to be the material with the lea...