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Hot zones evolution and dynamics in heterogeneous catalytic systems (2002)

Luss, D. ; Marwaha, B.

Woodbury, NY : American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Chaos 12 (2002), S. 172-181

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ISSN: 1089-7682

Source: AIP Digital Archive

Topics: Physics

Notes: Stationary and complex moving hot regions formed for temperatures close to the extinction temperature of uniformly ignited states of several catalytic systems, such as thin rings and hollow cylinders, a thin radial flow reactor (RFR) and a shallow packed bed. IR imaging revealed that the hot and cold regions (temperature difference of the order of 100 °C) were separated by a sharp (about 3 mm wide) temperature front. The transition from the branch of uniformly ignited to the states with a hot region was usually supercritical. In some experiments a disjoint branch of states with hot regions existed and two qualitatively different states with hot zones existed under the same operating conditions. A very intricate periodic motion of a hot zone was observed in a shallow packed bed reactor. For example, Fig. 16 shows a hot zone which splits and later coalesces several times during the long (14 h) period. Hot pulse motions were observed on a single catalytic pellet. These were caused by global coupling between the surface reaction rate and the ambient reactant concentration and the inherent nonuniformity of the catalytic activity. It is not yet clear what rate processes generate the transversal hot zones in uniform packed bed reactors. © 2002 American Institute of Physics.

Type of Medium: Electronic Resource

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1448808

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Use of partially acidulated phosphate rocks as phosphate fertilizers (1993)

Rajan, S. S. S. ; Marwaha, B. C.

Springer

Nutrient cycling in agroecosystems 35 (1993), S. 47-59

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ISSN: 1573-0867

Keywords: Partially acidulated phosphate rocks ; phosphate rock reactivity ; soil pH ; compaction ; cogranulation

Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition

Notes: Abstract Partially acidulated phosphate rocks (PAPRs) are manufactured by acidulation of PRs with less than the stoichiometric amounts of, usually, phosphoric or sulphuric acids. Products of similar composition to PAPRs are also prepared by cogranulating superphosphate with PRs. For most crops the agronomic value of PAPRs is determined by the availability to plants of their water-soluble P as well as their PR P component. The acid unreacted PR present in the directly acidulated PAPR, is considered to be less reactive than the original PR. This is probably the result of surface coatings of chemical compounds formed during acidulation. Under some soil conditions, in the presence of plants, the PR component probably dissolves faster than the original PR. For seasonal crops, except for fast growing ones such as squash (Cucurbita maxima), reactive PRs partially acidulated so that the final products contain about 50% of its total P in water-soluble form, are generally as effective as fully acidulated superphosphate. For permanent pastures the water P content may be reduced to about 40% of total P without reducing their agronomic effectiveness of the product. In medium P retentive soils pH seems to have little or no influence on the agronomic effectiveness of PAPRs. In highly P retentive soils increasing soil pH reduces the agronomic effectiveness of phosphoric PAPRs apparently by reducing the solubility of the PR component of PAPRs. Even at low pH the dissolution of unreacted PR in sulphuric PAPRs is less than that in phosphoric PAPRs, probably due to the possible coating of calcium sulphate on the residual PR in sulphuric PAPRs. Results on the agronomic effectiveness of PAPRs prepared from unreactive rocks were highly variable and no generalisation could be made regarding the degree of acidulation needed for the products to be consistently effective. Single superphosphate (SSP) cogranulated with reactive rocks (SSP/PR) was agronomically less effective than SSP, and also than phosphoric PAPRs of similar water-soluble P.